Diet therapy is an important solution to control the blood sugar level of diabetics. Normally diabetes diet therapy tells patients what time to eat, what to eat and what is prohibited. Actually, during the dietotherapy process, the only thing should be worried about is never eating the prohibited food.

There are several important diabetes diet tips are listed below.

Diabetes diet therapy suggestions No.1: take regular diet, have many meals but little food per meal. Diabetic who is taking insulin should take 6 meals per day, and eat half food of normal people. The food should be less in salt, spicy and salty would damage patient’s body, which are not good choices for diabetics.

Diabetes diet therapy suggestions No.2: the main food should keep in a regular level, not too more or less. It should promise the blood sugar level never over the safe range, also never below the safe range. Additional notice is that, the food with high starch level should be treated as main food, like ormosia and mung bean. Potato, yam, lotus root, taro and etc, these kinds of vegetables are all rich in starch, so after having them diabetics should reduce their main food.

Diabetes diet therapy suggestions No.3: non-main food should also be carefully considered. The first choice of non-main food is fresh vegetables: cabbage, spinach, leek, balsam pear and so on. The fruits with high sugar are strictly banned. Having too many fruits at one time is bad for diabetic’s health.

Diabetes diet therapy suggestions No.4: the less snacks, the better. The food with nuts is always high in fat, and a little sugar, taking it the less the better. Many other kinds of snacks, such as cheese cake, ice-cream, candy, are all high in sugar, so diabetics should absolutely keep away from them.

Diabetes diet therapy suggestions No.5: no smoking and no alcohol. Nicotine will block the blood loop circle. Alcohol will damage liver, make it hard to control blood sugar. No smoking and no alcohol are very important to diabetics.

Diabetes diet therapy suggestions No.6: drink more water. That does not mean you have to keep drinking all the time, but blood consistency would be increased if you do not drink enough water. That also increases blood sugar level.

Diabetes diet therapy suggestions No.7: do not misguide by some words. “No sugar” actually means “no sucrose”. If you have too much this kind of food, which contains address sugar and lactose, your blood sugar level may be getting high. However, sweetening agent does not contain any sugar, it contributes nothing to your blood sugar level.

These diabetes diet therapy suggestions, have you got them?

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