Just eat your usual meals and be careful to take your hypoglycemic medication on time.

The key to a diabetic diet is quantitative, it is best to see the hospital nutrition department, so that the clinical dietitian in accordance with the height and weight and labor intensity to design quantitative recipes, combined with their own dietary habits, to determine the appropriate meal menu and implementation.

(1) Make healthy food choices and eat small, frequent meals whenever possible without exceeding the total energy limit.

(2) The diabetic diet is a balanced meal that must include five major food groups at each meal: grains and potatoes, animal foods, soybeans and their products, vegetables and fruits, and cooking oils.

(3) mainly in the cereals and potatoes, that is, staple food, eat more coarse grains, grains, beans and potatoes, eat less white rice and white flour white bread white bread. Animal food do not eat fat meat and chicken skin duck skin, mainly lean meat. Vegetables with high starch content such as potatoes, lotus root, yam, taro, etc. to eat instead of staple food, other vegetables 300 to 500g per day. fruits to choose apples, strawberries, citrus, 100g each time, eaten between meals. Cooking oil is mainly vegetable oil, no more than 30ml per day.

(4) For those who are hungry before going to bed, they can drink some sugar-free low-fat milk.

(5) 30 minutes after each meal appropriate activities, activities 10 ~ 30min can be, not after eating not move.

Author: Cai Honglin, Director of Department of Nutrition, Associate Chief Physician, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Wuhan, China

Diet is a very important factor for diabetics to achieve and maintain ideal blood sugar levels. Below we chat about the daily dietary requirements of diabetics in terms of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, dietary fiber, alcohol consumption and salt. (i) Carbohydrates: The energy provided by carbohydrates should account for 50%-60% of the total energy, try to choose foods with low glycemic index, have regular meals every day, and try to maintain an even distribution of carbohydrates. (ii) Protein: the recommended protein intake of 10-15%, to ensure that the intake of high-quality protein more than 50%, but when the patient has proteinuria, to limit the intake of protein, such as beans, milk, eggs and so on. (iii) fat: dietary fat should not provide more than 30% of the total dietary energy, the intake of saturated fatty acids should not exceed 7% of the total dietary energy, minimize the intake of trans fatty acids, and the intake of cholesterol in food should be <300mg/d. (iv) salt: salt intake is limited to less than 6g per day, and patients with comorbid hypertension in particular should be limited to foods with high salt content, such as monosodium glutamate, soy sauce, seasoning sauce, etc. (e) Dietary fiber: A diet high in dietary fiber, such as vegetables, fruits, and whole grains, can help with defecation and weight loss. The recommended daily amount of dietary fiber is 14g/1000cal. (6) Alcohol consumption: Alcohol consumption is not recommended for people with diabetes, so be alert to the possibility of alcohol induced hypoglycemia because alcohol paralyzes the nervous system, and asymptomatic hypoglycemia may also occur. If alcohol is consumed, avoid drinking on an empty stomach, and do not consume more than 15g of alcohol per day for women, 25g for men, or more than twice per week.

To summarize, diabetics should avoid overeating, eat regularly, with meat and vegetables, mainly steamed, stewed, white burnt, cold and other light diet, avoiding high-fat, fried dishes (such as spicy beef), low-salt, low-oil, low-sugar diet, and coordinating the meal time, the time of oral hypoglycemic drugs and the time of insulin injection.

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