Control of diabetes, in addition to professional treatment, diet is also a key link. What should diabetic patients pay attention to in diet? What can't be eaten? Let's talk about it today.
What is diabetes good?
1. Garlic
Research shows that eating raw garlic can promote insulin secretion and increase the utilization of glucose by human body, so as to achieve the effect of reducing blood sugar.
2. Balsam pear
Balsam pear is a common vegetable with sweet and bitter fruit taste. It is often used to relieve summer heat in southern summer. The saying of balsam pear reducing blood sugar comes from traditional Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine believes that balsam pear contains the same protein as insulin, so it also has the same effect as insulin - lowering blood sugar. For this reason, scientists in China have done research on the treatment of type 2 diabetes with Momordica charantia extract.
If your blood sugar is high, you might as well eat more of the above foods, which has a certain auxiliary effect on your blood sugar control. Now we are going to find out which foods are best for diabetics.
Diabetes can not eat what?
1. Red jujube
Red dates can play a role of replenishing qi and enriching blood for the average person, but it can not be eaten for diabetics, because the sugar content is very high, which can reach about 50%.
2, Baijiu
Baijiu will also increase blood sugar and aggravate the disease. Not only that, Baijiu will also affect the metabolism of hypoglycemic drugs, thus affecting the treatment of diabetes. Therefore, diabetes patients should avoid drinking baijiu.
3. Dried fruit
Many people love eating dried fruits, which are good and nutritious, but for type 2 diabetes patients, they need to pay more attention to eating dried fruit, because dried fruit dehydrates, and its natural sugar will be condensed, thereby increasing the body's sugar content.
4. Honey
Honey contains a lot of sugar, a lot of it is glucose that can be directly absorbed without digestion, and a small part is sucrose which is easy to digest and absorb. These two kinds of sugars absorb quickly. A large amount of intake can cause blood sugar to rise. So if you have diabetes, it is best not to contact such foods.