First of all, medically speaking, the sugar content of food is not determined by the sweetness of food, but by the carbohydrate content of food. In other words, the important factor that determines the blood sugar level of diabetic patients is not how many sweets are ingested in the body, but how many carbohydrates are ingested. A small example: Is Yacon familiar to everyone? In my opinion, it looks a bit like sweet potato. It tastes sweet, but the calories are very low, and the carbohydrates contained will not be absorbed by the human body. Therefore, eating yacon in diabetics will not lead to an increase in blood sugar.
Secondly, some foods use sugar substitutes as sweeteners. Although these foods are sweet, they contain no sugar. After eating them in the body, they will not produce so-called energy. If diabetics eat in moderation under the guidance of a doctor, it will not lead to an increase in blood sugar.
Therefore, it is not impossible for diabetics to eat sweets. They can eat foods with low carbohydrate content, and it is also safe to eat some sweet sugar substitutes in moderation. In fact, diabetic patients want to lower blood sugar, you can pay attention to the following points.
To lower blood sugar, please remember four points in your diet and do two things:
A handful of nuts first, then eat.
Unsaturated fatty acids contained in nuts can help diabetics improve their insulin levels. In addition, eating a handful of nuts such as almonds and walnuts before meals can increase satiety, help you reduce your intake during meals, and also slow down the digestion of food, which is very beneficial to controlling blood sugar after meals.
Second, the order of eating when eating
Normal people don't pay attention to the order when eating, which has little effect on their health, but for diabetic patients, paying attention to the order of eating is conducive to controlling blood sugar. Generally speaking, you should have soup first, then vegetables, then vegetable rice and finally meat. Drinking soup before meals can clean the stomach, let the stomach adapt first, and then prepare food. It is worth noting that diabetic patients should not drink soup that is too greasy or too tonic. Eating vegetables for 3 minutes first, then eating vegetables with rice, and finally eating meat can greatly reduce the postprandial blood sugar value.
Third, you should eat green instead of red in your diet.
Generally speaking, the diet of diabetics should be mainly green, and eating more green vegetables is conducive to lowering blood sugar. Red food, on the other hand, has a high sugar content and is not suitable for diabetics. For example, tomatoes and cucumbers with the same weight are safer to eat than tomatoes, because tomatoes can obviously increase sugar. So, if you are not sure whether the food will go up, choose? Green? It will be safer.
Drink two cups of green tea every day.
Compared with other beverages, green tea has not been fermented and the content of tea polyphenols is relatively high. This substance has a good hypoglycemic effect and can control the release of blood sugar to a certain extent. Therefore, diabetic patients drink two cups of green tea every day, which helps to lower blood sugar.
Diabetic patients can also help lower blood sugar by doing the following two things:
Diligent exercise
People with diabetes are generally inactive. In fact, some studies have found that walking can make the most effective use of insulin in the body. If diabetics can walk for 35 minutes every day and 4 hours every week, the risk of diabetes can be reduced by 80%, which is very helpful for lowering blood sugar.
Try to measure blood sugar
It is true that monitoring blood sugar is a troublesome thing, but timely and regular monitoring of blood sugar is very beneficial to blood sugar control, especially for people with unstable blood sugar. In the process of monitoring, if blood sugar fluctuates, remember to change the medicine, stop taking medicine or increase the dose, and hand over the monitoring data to the doctor in time to adjust the treatment plan under the guidance of the doctor.
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