When it comes to diabetic diets, many sugar addicts consider, "Is there something special I should eat?" "Is there something I can't eat?" The truth is, it's not that complicated.

To summarize the diabetic diet in one sentence:Correct previous bad eating habits and start eating healthy.Getting this right is the first step towards controlling your blood sugar.

Specifically, dietary therapy involves three things:

Volume - eat until you're an eighth full

1. The biggest cause of diabetes is "eating too much". To live a healthy life, we need to eat well and consume a certain amount of nutrients, not too much and not too little. The amount of food we are talking about here is not the amount of food, but the amount of calories.

2. When diagnosing diabetes, the doctor will prescribe the following based on comprehensive information such as age, gender, height, weight, weekday activity, blood glucose level, and the presence or absence of complications: diabetic diet with a daily calorie restriction of xx. Compliance with the amount of calories in the prescription is the most fundamental of diet therapy. For this reason, sugar lovers should learn to master some simple food calorie calculation.

Quality - Dietary structure is reasonable

1. After determining the total number of calories for the day, we need to mix and match various nutrients to meet the body's needs. Among them, the most important is to rationalize the three major nutrients, namely sugar, protein and fat.

2. The ideal combination of these three is: within the limits of total calories, the daily nutritional ratio of food is: 45%-60% carbohydrates, 15%-20% protein, 25%-35% fat. In addition, we need to add some "lubricants" - vitamins and minerals - to the food to make the energy intake work better. Vegetables, seaweeds, mushrooms and other foods are rich in these "lubricants", and they happen to be low-calorie, so even if you eat a little too much, you don't have to worry about exceeding the calorie limit.

Balanced - grasp the nutritional ratios, arrange three meals a day

1. The term "balance" can also be well used to illustrate the point about "quality". Ensuring the balance of nutrients is crucial. At the same time, we should pay attention to the three meals a day and distribute the calories evenly. It is important not to eat too much at one meal and go hungry at another, as this can easily lead to ups and downs in blood glucose.

2. A special word of caution: never pull off a meal.

3. It is important to know that the human body is like a big machine that does what it is supposed to do when it is supposed to do what it is supposed to do, and it works in an organized way. Pancreatic islet cells also secrete insulin rhythmically, in order to reduce the burden on the insulin cells and make it work regularly.Be sure to organize your meals wisely.

4. If the fasting period lasts too long, the next meal after eating, it is easy to cause a rapid rise in blood sugar, which is easy to accumulate fat in the body.

5. Therefore.Three meals a day are important.Please take every meal seriously, and it is best to fix the eating time of each meal. Eating well is the most fundamental cornerstone of sugar control.

Apricots are a fruit that comes on the market early in the summer and are not high in carbohydrates ("sugar" in the mouth of sugar lovers). For every 100 grams of apricots, there are 7.8 grams of carbohydrates, so it's verySuitable for diabetics。

So what are the other benefits of eating fresh apricots in moderation?

1. Prevent or improve diabetic neuropathy: because apricots are rich in vitamin B1, which has a protective effect on the nervous system.
   
2. Good for the eyes: apricots contain 1.79 milligrams of carotenoids per 100 grams, and carotenoids boost immunity and protect vision.
   
3. Cardiovascular protection: apricot contains flavonoid nutrients, flavonoids can reduce the serum total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) content of people with hyperlipidemia, and a certain degree of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) content.
   
4. Promote intestinal peristalsis, enhance appetite: when vitamin B1 deficiency cholinesterase activity is enhanced, so that the decomposition of acetylcholine accelerated, resulting in gastrointestinal peristalsis slows down, digestive secretion of digestive juices is reduced, dyspepsia occurs, so clinically often vitamin B1 as an auxiliary digestive drugs used.
   

Therefore, diabetics are advised to consume 100-200 grams of apricots per day with stable blood sugar control.

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The above answer is provided by Ms. Song Mingyue, a registered dietitian of MicroSugar

Diabetes mellitus is a disorder of the generation, daily life should control the consumption of direct sugar, and high-sugar foods. Control high calorie food. Balanced nutritional diet, appropriate increase in exercise, so that blood sugar to maintain a normal range, if necessary, drug control. Diabetics can eat apricots properly, apricots contain sugar but do not belong to the high-sugar food. But be sure not to eat more.

Hello, diabetics should follow the following recommendations for their diet:

I. Coarse and fine combinations of staple foods

Relatively speaking, the glycemic index of refined grains is higher than that of mixed grains, and it is recommended that the ratio of coarse to fine should be 1:3-1:2.

In addition omnivores are relatively rich in dietary fiber, which slows down the postprandial glycemic effect.

In addition, for sugar lovers who like to drink porridge, do not cook too much in the end, it is recommended to try to drink less thin porridge more thick porridge or rice.

It is most appropriate to control 200g-300g of each type of class per day, which can include 50-100g of potatoes.

II. Order of meals

The order in which you eat also affects your postprandial blood glucose, with the first bite of cereal and potatoes showing the most significant rise in blood glucose.

Sugar lovers are advised to eat in the order of soup/water-vegetables-meat-main food for the slowest rise in blood sugar.

III. Eat less, eat more

We are accustomed to three meals a day, each meal interval of 4-6 hours, this eating pattern is not favorable for sugar lovers. Because after the rise of blood sugar, if there is no food to supplement, blood sugar is easy to have a rapid decline, resulting in a roller-coaster fluctuation of blood sugar, which is very unfavorable to the repair of the body's function.

Sugar lovers are advised to change their three meals a day to three meals at three o'clock, and for the three o'clock meal they can usually choose low-sugar fruits, nuts, milk and yogurt.

IV. Balanced nutrition

For sugar lovers, balanced nutrition is especially important. Only when the body consumes enough nutrients can it ensure the repair of various body functions, including the repair of the pancreas. If necessary, multivitamin tablets can be supplemented to meet the body's nutritional needs.

It is important to consume an adequate amount of protein each day because protein is an essential nutrient for repairing the pancreas and also stimulates the body to convert fat into glucose for energy, which is especially important for diabetics with comorbid obesity.

V. Moderate exercise

For diabetics, exercise can help activate the body's cells, making them more efficient at utilizing glucose, which in turn can smooth out blood sugar.

Exercise time is more appropriate 1-1.5 hours after a meal, half an hour after exercise to have eaten, than to avoid blood sugar drop too quickly. In addition, must avoid fasting exercise.

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