Guangzhou Daily News (all media reporter Zhang Qingmei correspondent Wei Xing, Chu Jieya) Diabetes is a common chronic disease, and the trend of younger people is becoming more and more obvious. There are not a few people diagnosed with diabetes in their 20s and 30s.
Many people don’t know much about diabetes, and there are many misunderstandings about their diet – just don’t eat sweets?
Never drink cola, milk tea, only drink pure juice... Pan Danfeng, director of the Department of Nutrition of Guangzhou First People's Hospital, and Lin Hanxiao, the attending physician, came to clarify some common dietary misunderstandings for diabetic patients. Come and see if you have been recruited. ?
Misunderstanding 1: "Sugar-free food" can be eaten with confidence
Although sugar-free foods do not contain small-molecule refined sugars such as glucose, sucrose, and maltose that significantly affect blood sugar, many sugar-free foods are made from refined flour and a small amount of grain powder, and some may also add more oil.
Even, some just do not add sucrose, but add starch syrup, glucose syrup, maltose syrup, etc., and the sugar rise rate is not inferior to the white sugar that you eat every day.
Therefore, when buying sugar-free food, be sure to carefully read the ingredient list and the nutrient composition list: choose zero added sugar + low fat + high dietary fiber and low glycemic index.
In addition, sugar-free foods also contain calories and should not be eaten indiscriminately.
Misunderstanding 2: Do not eat or eat less staple food
Individual extreme sugar lovers do not eat any staple food in order to control sugar.
As everyone knows, not eating staple food is dangerous!
Pan Danfeng said that improper restriction of staple food may lead to the occurrence of hypoglycemia, and even ketoacidosis, and adverse reactions such as nausea, constipation, headache, fatigue, and drowsiness.
Not eating staple foods for a long time may lead to nutritional imbalances such as lack of vitamins and trace elements. Excessive dieting may also lead to adverse consequences such as hypoproteinemia, gout attacks, and bone calcium loss.
Diet control is to ensure a balanced intake of various nutrients on the basis of controlling the total daily calories. Carbohydrates, fats and proteins need to account for a certain proportion within a reasonable range.
Choose staple foods to avoid staple foods with a high glycemic index such as porridge, refined bread, bread, etc., and eat more whole grains.
If you like to eat noodles, you can use soba noodles instead of ordinary noodles; if you like to eat, you can add a certain proportion of coarse grains to the milled rice.
Misunderstanding 3: Vegetarians eat a lot of vegetables and not meat
Lin Hanxiao introduced that although it is advocated that people with diabetes should eat more vegetables, delay the rise of blood sugar and increase dietary fiber intake, it does not mean that people with diabetes can only eat vegetarian dishes and not meat dishes.
Just like ordinary people, it is necessary to emphasize nutritional balance, and appropriate intake of fish, eggs, poultry, and meat should be done, otherwise it will lead to insufficient protein intake and decreased resistance.
When choosing meats, you should alternate meats and avoid meats that are high in fat.
In general, fish is lower in fat than red meat such as pork, beef, and lamb, and poultry is in between.
For "sugar friends", fish, chicken, lean meat and beef are all good choices.
Misunderstanding 4: Superstition of various health remedies
Many people are easily addicted to various health remedies. After hearing A said that eating fungus is good, they made a large plate every day for 2 consecutive months; listening to B saying that bitter gourd lowers blood sugar, so they changed their pattern to eat fried bitter gourd, bitter gourd juice, bitter gourd soup…
Lin Hanxiao said that no food has all the nutrients it needs, so don't blindly believe in some unverified "health preservation methods".
Myth 5: You can't eat fruit
The sugar in fruit mainly exists in the form of monosaccharide and disaccharide. When blood sugar is not well controlled, eating fruit may lead to further increase in blood sugar.
But fruits are rich in potassium, magnesium, vitamin C and a variety of antioxidant substances, and also contain organic acids and aromatic substances, which play an important role in promoting digestion and preventing cardiovascular diseases.
Therefore, it is beneficial for sugar lovers to eat fruit appropriately, but the premise is that it is timely and appropriate.
When blood sugar is at a high level, do not eat fruit temporarily; when blood sugar control is stable, it is recommended to eat some fruits with low glycemic index and low sugar content between meals, such as strawberries, tomatoes, cherries, apples, pears, oranges, Grapefruit, kiwi, dragon fruit, etc.
The recommended daily intake of fruit is about 150-200 grams.
Myth 6: You don't need to control your diet after taking medicine
Regardless of the type of diabetes, regardless of the severity of the diabetes, or whether the patient has been receiving medication, diet control cannot be relaxed.
Lifestyle interventions should be used throughout treatment.
Myth 7: Excessive diet control in order not to take medicine
Diet control is the basis of diabetes treatment. If the blood sugar is not up to the standard, the drugs that should be used should still be used.