Diabetes, one of the common chronic diseases. China's diabetic patients at the end of 18 years has reached 1.4 people, that is to say, on average, one in ten people are diabetic. Diabetes is not scary, what is scary is the various complications caused by diabetes. And among these complications, some can be life-threatening.

For diabetics, it is important to pay attention to dietary treatment while taking hypoglycemic drugs. While medication is important, diet is equally important. For diabetics, it is possible to eat fewer staples, but not none.

The staple food is too fine, which will lead to larger fluctuations in blood sugar after meals, which will cause blood sugar to be more difficult to control, and the risk of complications will be elevated. How should diabetics eat their staple foods?

Staple foods, the body's main food source of energy, are also the main food source of carbohydrates. The staple food in the south is based on white rice, while the staple food in the north is based on steamed bread. The author is a northerner and his staple food is also based on steamed buns.

Previously eaten steamed buns are made of ordinary flour, the quality of the buns compared to the poor, looks black. Today, the common market buns are made of fine white flour or special one flour, looks particularly white, so people also have a special appetite.

Dietary fiber and B vitamins are mainly found in the pasty layer and skin of wheat, and the loss of dietary fiber and B vitamins is greater in y processed wheat flour. This results in buns made from refined white flour, which have a poorer sense of satiety and a spike in blood sugar after meals.

For diabetics, the main food can not be eaten. Eat the main can not be refined white rice and noodles made of staple food, but should be coarse grains made of staple food. For example, grain buns, grain rice, these coarse grains made of staple food contains more dietary fiber, a strong sense of satiety, after meals, blood sugar does not appear to fluctuate.

The method of making staple food with coarse grains is actually very simple. The author especially likes to do pasta, can share the production method of mixed grain buns. Let's take corn buns as an example.

Raw materials: 300 grams of cornstarch, 2 eggs, 500 grams of milk, 700 grams of ordinary wheat flour, 4 grams of yeast;

First, put the yeast in the milk and mix it well, plus the egg beaten; cornstarch and wheat flour together, pour the milk and egg juice and into the dough, after waking up and kneading into the buns, and then again after waking up for 30 minutes on the pot to steam can be.

And rice can be made into a mixed grain rice, recommended for diabetics to eat buckwheat mixed grain rice. The reason why recommended for diabetics to eat buckwheat rice, because buckwheat contains more flavonoids. And these flavonoids can improve the microvascular health of diabetics, can reduce the risk of microangiopathy in diabetics.

And, buckwheat also contains D-chiral inositol, this substance is still diabetic patients take ghrelinai class of drugs, for diabetic patients is also a very good substance. At the same time, buckwheat is also a whole grain, containing more dietary fiber.

Consumption of buckwheat rice, more suitable for diabetics. The staple food for diabetics, it is necessary to focus on the main food made of coarse grains.