Diabetes is a metabolic disease with a high incidence in China, and due to the increasing incidence of the disease in recent years, as well as its greater harm to patients, diabetes has caused a great deal of concern. As a chronic and lifelong disease, there is no cure for diabetes, and if the patient's blood glucose is not well controlled, it will also cause a variety of complications, jeopardizing the patient's life and health. Therefore, it is very important for diabetic patients to actively control their blood glucose. The onset of diabetes and its glycemic control are closely related to diet. For diabetic patients, only a reasonable control of diet, to be able to obtain the desired effect of glycemic control, but diabetic patients want to add meals, you can eat what snacks?
We can always eat cucumbers, tomatoes and other low-sugar fruits, of course, you can also prepare some protein snacks or carbohydrate foods as a meal to eat.
A protein snack?
These snacks are commonly jerky, milk and its products, soy products, etc., diabetics can choose in moderation. The most common types of jerky are beef jerky, dried fish, dried pork, etc., which are usually high in sodium and should not be eaten in excess, as well as soybean products, which have the same problem.
You can choose small packages. It's easy to control your intake, and some of the dried pork has more sugar in the ingredients, with a lot of extra sugar added to flavor it, which is a snack that diabetics should eat less of.
Milk is a more suitable drink, you can also consume some pre-brined moderate amount of chicken wings, eggs, etc. as protein snacks.
Two, carbohydrate snacks?
These snacks are commonly found in cookies, bread, cakes, potato chips, candies, etc. Diabetic patients can prepare a few candies in their pockets and carry them with them as emergency food for low blood sugar.
Other snacks can be purchased in the supermarket. Cookies can be of the soda variety, bread is best of whole wheat or with some coarse grains, and cakes, chips and other diabetic patients are best not to do snacks to choose. Cake contains a lot of refined sugar, even if the raw material is sweetener, a small piece of cake also contains a lot of refined flour and oil, energy is quite high, the impact on blood glucose is greater;
Chips is a high-energy food, the chips in the supermarket are divided into fried and non-fried. Non-fried snacks seem to be more popular, in fact, non-fried starchy food mainly using drying technology, in order to maintain a crispy texture, this type of snacks also need a certain amount of fat raw materials, and no matter how the production process, deep-fried and non-fried starchy foods contain carcinogens acrylamide, and non-fried varieties of this carcinogen content is higher, so non-fried potato chips, as well as do not recommend that you choose.
In addition to buying crackers and bread, you can also prepare boiled corn and egg bites, which are healthier homemade snacks.
No matter what kind of food you choose to add to your diet, you should estimate its energy value and not consume too much of it. In addition to the ingredients that you prepare yourself, packaged foods purchased in supermarkets have ingredient lists and nutritional content lists, so you can see at a glance what you're getting, and it's easy to control your energy intake[1].
Because controlling blood glucose and weight is a lifelong issue for people with diabetes, but there is no need to panic when you have diabetes, and in recent years, treating diabetes through surgery has become a new approach. A large amount of clinical follow-up data as well as the results of clinical randomized controlled trials have shown that the clinical outcomes of surgical bariatric surgery for the treatment of diabetes mellitus are significantly better than those of traditional treatment modalities [2]. However, bariatric surgery is not suitable for everyone, just like other surgeries, bariatric surgery has strict indications and contraindications, and is only suitable for a small proportion of patients who meet the requirements, coupled with the fact that it is a more traumatic, irreversible and risky treatment with surgical complications, which many young people are not willing to try.
However, with the advancement of endoscopic medical technology, minimally invasive interventional procedures have made great breakthroughs. In China, the endoscopic minimally invasive interventional procedures represented by the Gastric Diverter Stent System, with its features of easy operation, no damage to the human body structure, and minimally invasive gastroscopic interventions, have lowered the threshold of acceptance for both doctors and patients, and have the potential for rapid popularization. With the development of these advanced technologies, it is believed that diabetes can soon be conquered, bringing the gospel to the population of metabolic diseases~
References:
[1] Zhou WP. How to choose snacks for diabetics on fall excursions[J]. Diabetes World,2014(10):46.
[2]? Committee of Obesity and Diabetes Surgeons, Chinese Physicians Association of Surgeons Branch. Statement of endorsement of "Metabolic surgery as a treatment option for type 2 diabetes mellitus: a joint effort of international diabetes organizations"[J]. Chinese Electronic Journal of Obesity and Metabolic Disease, 2017, 3(4):181-183.