Many people pay special attention to their blood sugar in life. Most of them pay special attention to high blood sugar. However, in fact, hypoglycemia is also worthy of our attention, and people with low blood sugar also need to pay attention to it. You need to regulate your body through diet, so what foods are better to eat when your blood sugar is low? What are the recommended diets for low blood sugar?

1. Low-glycemic recipes

1. Mung bean, barley and Gorgon porridge

Ingredients: 80 grams of mung beans, 150 grams of barley, and 50 grams of dried Gorgon.

Method: Wash mung beans, barley and dried gorgon seeds and soak them for 1-2 hours. Put the mung beans and barley into the pot and cook slowly. When they are almost cooked, add the gorgon seeds, bring to a boil and add white sugar to taste.

2. Oat kernel and glutinous rice porridge

Ingredients: 60 grams of oat kernel, 200 grams of red glutinous rice, and 30 raisins.

Method: Soak oatmeal and red glutinous rice separately for one night. Wash the raisins with warm water. Put the oats and red glutinous rice into the pot, add water and bring to a boil, then turn down the heat. After half an hour, add raisins and cook together, and continue cooking for half an hour until the glutinous rice blooms and becomes sticky. Stir in honey.

3. Vegetable tortillas

Ingredients: 1 corn, 1 egg, 100 grams of flour, 25 grams each of leeks and carrots. Appropriate amounts of green onions, salt, and 5 grams of vegetable oil.

Method: Wash the leeks and green onions respectively and cut them into sections; wash the carrots and cut them into shreds; cook the corn in a pot of boiling water, take it out, cool it and break off the corn kernels; add warm water and eggs to the flour. Mix into batter, add leek segments, onion segments, carrot shreds, corn kernels, and salt and stir evenly. Put the pot on the fire, pour in the oil to heat up, scoop out the batter, spread it evenly in the pot, and fry over low heat until both sides are golden brown.

4. Water spinach and corn

Ingredients: 300 grams of water spinach, 150 grams of corn kernels, and 15 grams of mustard. Appropriate amounts of salt, chicken essence, dried chili knots, Sichuan peppercorns, fresh soup, and 3 grams of vegetable oil.

Method: Wash the corn kernels and boil them in a pot of boiling water; wash the water spinach, cut it into sections, put it in a pot of boiling water and blanch it for later use. Put the pot on high heat, add vegetable oil, fry the dried chili pepper segments until brown, add the peppercorns and mustard and stir-fry until fragrant. Pour in corn kernels and water spinach segments, add fresh soup, add salt and chicken essence, mix thoroughly, and serve.

5. Seaweed and minced meat soup

Ingredients: 10 grams of seaweed, 50 grams of lean pork, 300 grams of clear soup, 10 grams of minced onion and ginger, 20 grams of wet starch, sesame oil , MSG and vinegar in appropriate amounts.

Method: Remove impurities from the seaweed and rinse it clean; chop the lean pork into minced meat, add a little refined salt and mix well; add clear soup, refined salt, monosodium glutamate and minced meat to the pot, and add seaweed when it is cooked for 8 seconds. Thicken the gravy with wet starch, add green onions, ginger, vinegar, and pour in sesame oil and serve.

6. Crucian carp and white lentil porridge

Ingredients: 200g crucian carp meat, 25g white lentils, 30g millet, appropriate amount of salt and chopped green onion.

Method: Wash the millet and white lentils, add appropriate amount of water, cook on high heat for 5 minutes, then reduce to simmer and cook until cooked, add crucian carp meat, cook until cooked, sprinkle with a little chopped green onion and refined salt. .

7. Cold fungus

Ingredients: 250 grams of water-cooked fungus, 25 grams of water-cooked sea rice, refined salt, monosodium glutamate, peppercorns, minced garlic, minced ginger, sesame oil, peanut oil, fresh soup Appropriate amount of each.

Method: Wash the black fungus, pick it into small pieces, put it into boiling water for a while, drain it, put it into a plate, mix it with refined salt, fresh soup and MSG, add minced ginger and minced garlic, Just drizzle with a little sesame oil.

2. What causes hypoglycemia?

1. Pancreatic disease

The pancreas is the most important organ in the human body for regulating blood sugar. It can produce glucagon It has always been known to raise blood sugar, but it can also secrete insulin to lower blood sugar. However, many diseases of the pancreas will cause a large amount of insulin to be secreted, lowering blood sugar.

Common pancreatic diseases that can promote insulin secretion include: insulinoma, islet B cell hyperplasia, extrapancreatic tumors, etc.

2. Endocrine diseases

Clinically, there are some people whose pancreas is completely normal, but endocrine disorders in the body produce certain hormones that can enhance pancreatic islet B cells and promote A large amount of insulin is secreted without much change in glucagon, and hypoglycemia can also occur.

Common diseases that cause endocrine disorders include: cirrhosis, hepatitis, advanced liver cancer, anterior pituitary gland function decline, etc.

3. Diabetes

Many people think that diabetes means elevated blood sugar. In fact, they are wrong. Diabetes is a disease of blood sugar, which can be elevated or too low, especially in the early stages of diabetes. , the peak of insulin in the body lags behind the highest peak of blood sugar, but after the peak of blood sugar passes, the peak of insulin appears, which will cause hypoglycemia.

4. Gastrointestinal surgery

The human stomach not only stores food, but also slows down the rapid entry of food into the intestines. However, some people have surgery due to diseases. For gastrointestinal surgery, such as subtotal gastrectomy, gastrointestinal anastomosis, etc., food will enter the intestines quickly after a meal, and blood sugar will rise too fast. The blood sugar peak will appear before the insulin peak. When the insulin peak arrives, the body will The blood sugar has dropped a bit, and after the insulin is lowered, hypoglycemia occurs.

5. Caused by emotions

Some people are also caused by emotions, such as excessive mood swings and nerve problems. Especially women, when there are diseases in the body, Hypoglycemia after meals often occurs, which is clinically called idiopathic functional hypoglycemia.