For patients with diabetes a diet – not a desirable, but indispensable condition of maintenance of viability. Therefore it is very important to know nuances of this diet. This diet is designed to help with regulation of norm of entry of sugar into composition of blood. The number of carbohydrates needs to be limited in every possible way and also to calculate their optimum number.
There is a standard of number of calories a day which will be coordinated with the attending physician. At respect for this norm of many problems it is possible to avoid.
Basic principles of an individual diabetic diet
This diet is incompatible with starvation. It is necessary to eat food rather often, to six times a day. It is necessary to distribute caloric content during the day on meals approximately so: 25%, 10%, 35%, 10%, 20%.
It is desirable to eat food in identical hours, at the same time every day.
Overeating will unacceptably, unambiguously lead to feeling sick.
The use of products is offered only from the list admissible, not provoking increase in level of sugar.
Carbohydrates which deliver sugar in an organism, of course, are necessary for ensuring activity. But for avoiding of jumps of sugar as a part of blood it is necessary to receive them in the small portions, having distributed during the day evenly.
Carbohydrates exist simple and difficult (slow). The second are shown to the diabetic because of their quite slow splitting.
Usual sugar is the most dangerous of carbohydrates. Patients with diabetes have to just forget about it. In order that it wasn't too painful, there are its substitutes of various type. They can be got both in shops, and in pharmacies.
It is necessary to minimize also consumption of the fruit rich with natural sugar, especially such as watermelons, bananas, fig, grapes and any dried fruits. A citrus and apples is allowed to be used. Honey also should be limited in the diet.
What needs to be eaten
Bread, best of all black or with bran. Various porridges carry to long carbohydrates. Optimum it is possible to call buckwheat, millet and oat porridges.
Almost all vegetables are very useful. These are carrots, beet, cabbage, various greens. It is desirable in the form of fresh salads.
Proteinaceous food. Consumption of meat, protein-rich is recommended: beef, fish and a bird, except a duck. Surely it is worth making a choice towards not a fatty meat, and still light meat will be more useful red. Use of low-fat dairy and sour-milk products, mushrooms, haricots and in a small amount of eggs is expedient.
From fats it is more preferable to use various vegetable oils.
What doesn't need to be eaten
Alcoholic and carbonated drinks are contraindicated to the use.
It is better to exclude products with the content of white flour absolutely. Bread, pasta, semolina porridge it is only possible to do much harm.
Consumption of potatoes needs to be minimized. If it is impossible to exclude, then to try to presoak for some time before preparation.