What are the dietary precautions for diabetes? Diabetes is now a very common disease, this disease to many patients with a great impact, diabetes incidence of people are mainly elderly, so for this disease in the diet of the patient what are the precautions? The following one to understand. 1. To eat more sugar-free food, the so-called "sugar-free food" is essentially a food without added cane sugar, some foods are sweeteners instead of cane sugar, but still can not be eaten casually. 2. There is no difference between eating sweet snacks and salty snacks, both of which will cause blood sugar to rise. 3. Sweeteners are not converted to glucose and do not affect blood glucose changes, and cannot be used as self-help foods for hypoglycemia. 4. Carbohydrate foods should be eaten as prescribed, not less or more, but evenly (carbohydrates are the sugars in grains, vegetables, milk, fruits, soy products, and hard fruits). 5. Eat fewer and more meals. Not only to ensure the supply of calories and nutrients, but also to avoid postprandial blood sugar peaks. 6. Eat the same amount of "diabetic food" as ordinary food. "Diabetic food" refers to the use of high dietary fiber grain, such as: buckwheat, oats. Although these foods take longer to digest and absorb, they eventually turn into glucose. 7. Eat side dishes should also be moderate, eat more food containing dietary fiber, less salt, less cholesterol-containing foods. 8. Break the misconception that "taking more hypoglycemic drugs can make you eat more". 9,. About eating fruits. Patients with good blood sugar control can eat fruits with low sugar content, such as apples, pears, oranges, oranges, strawberries, etc., but the amount should not be too much. The time to eat fruit should be between meals when blood sugar is low. If you eat fruit after is equal to add meals, blood sugar will be immediately high. In addition, after eating watermelon, sugar absorption is very fast, so try not to eat. Bananas in the starch content is very high, should count the amount of staple food. 10, can not use peanuts, melon seeds, walnuts, almonds, pine nuts and other hard fruits to fill hunger. 11. Diabetics should never limit their water intake. 12. Vegetables with starch as the main ingredient should be counted in the amount of staple food. These vegetables are potatoes, white potatoes, lotus root, yam, loosestrife, taro, lilies, water chestnuts, and cecrops. The above is mainly for diabetic patients dietary considerations is what to do a simple introduction, I believe that we read also have an understanding, then also hope that there are diabetic patients on the timely acceptance of treatment, so as not to delay the best period of time for the treatment of the condition, if there is no understanding of the place you can call our hotline, we have a professional doctor for you to answer.