The dietary management of patients with gestational diabetes should not only ensure a balanced diet, reasonable nutrition, regular eating, and small and frequent meals, but more importantly, change some previous bad eating patterns, such as some bad eating habits.

Today we will talk about the "red light foods" that as a "sugar mommy" you should pay attention to and try to avoid.

"Red light food" - only provides calories, sugar, fat and salt, and very little other nutrients.

Frequent consumption of "red light foods" can easily cause nutritional imbalances and undermine the stability of the human body's internal environment, such as excessive energy intake, blood sugar fluctuations, abnormal blood lipids, insufficient body protein, insufficient body cells, and lack of vitamins and minerals, etc., which are not good for health.

Management and weight management.

Therefore, especially those with gestational diabetes should avoid eating it, and should limit their single intake when using it occasionally.

The emergence of "red light food": 1. In order to pursue taste and texture enjoyment, the processing method has a great impact on the nutritional composition, such as excessive fine processing causing nutritional loss, frying and seasoning to increase calories, etc.; 2. Nutritional management capabilities

Deficiency, excessive consumption of foods with poor nutritional proportions, such as frequent consumption of foods with single nutrients, unbalanced nutritional composition, and difficult-to-control energy and/or nutrients.

For example: 1. Fried, deep-fried, smoked and other fatty foods: canned meat, ham, fatty meat, moon cakes, popcorn, etc.

2. Pure sugar and sweets: sugar, sweet drinks, desserts and pastries, etc.

There is no big problem if you eat the above foods occasionally, and they can also increase the fun of eating. However, if you develop a habit and become your main preference and choice in eating, your health will be in danger over time.

Having said all this, pregnant mothers and sugar mommies don’t need to be too nervous. They can plan the total amount of nutrients every day, and occasionally adjust the amount of food in the plan and taste it briefly to achieve the purpose of satisfying their cravings.