In the treatment of diabetes, [shut up] is an important link to control blood sugar, and staple food is the main factor affecting blood sugar.
For staple food, diabetics often have such troubles:
After eating staple food, my blood sugar rose sharply after meals. Is it better not to eat staple food?
It is said that different staple foods have different effects on blood sugar. Should I choose how?
Today, Dr. Clove will tell you about the staple food that diabetics eat.
1. Can I eat?
Staple foods, such as rice, noodles, sweet potatoes, etc., provide carbohydrates to the human body, are the most important energy source of the human body, and are also the most important food for raising blood sugar.
Sometimes, some diabetics choose not to eat staple food in order to control their blood sugar. In this case, although the short-term blood sugar situation will be better, it is not conducive to long-term health.
If you don’t eat staple food for a long time, the body lacks enough carbohydrates to provide energy, which will bring adverse effects to the body.
Eating too little staple food is easy to induce diabetic ketoacidosis, which is a serious acute complication of diabetes and may endanger the life of patients.
Due to insufficient energy from staple food, patients are easily hungry and may eat some snacks to fill their stomachs. However, many snacks have relatively high energy, which is easy to make patients’ daily energy intake exceed the limit and is not conducive to blood sugar control.
Therefore, diabetics still need to eat staple food and choose healthy staple food.
2. Choose what?
Choose staple foods that have little effect on blood sugar. Generally speaking, the more natural and less processed staple foods are, the more conducive to blood sugar control. For example, whole grain coarse cereals are more conducive to blood sugar control than white rice and flour, while whole oatmeal that needs to be cooked is more conducive to blood sugar control than ready-to-eat non-cooked oatmeal.
Therefore, it is recommended that patients with diabetes and urine choose various whole grain coarse cereals, potatoes and miscellaneous beans as staple foods.
Recommended options:
- Whole grain coarse cereals: Stem rice, barley, oat, corn, brown rice, black rice, highland barley, buckwheat, millet, broomcorn millet (large yellow rice), yellow rice, sorghum rice, coix seed, etc. Potato: For example, sweet potato, purple potato, taro, potato. Miscellaneous beans: is a kind of beans except soybean, containing more starch, such as mung bean, red bean, lentil, kidney bean, cat’s eye bean, snow bean, etc. Whole grain products: whole wheat flour, whole oatmeal, oat flour (naked oats flour), corn flour, buckwheat flour, etc.
There are also some vegetables with high starch content and can also be eaten as staple food. For example, pumpkin, lotus root, yam, etc.
Not Recommended:
- Refined staple foods, such as refined rice, refined white flour, etc. Processed foods containing added sugar, such as bread, biscuits, cakes and various cakes.
3. How to eat?
Generally speaking, the less cooked staple food is, the better it is for blood sugar control.
For example, dry rice is more helpful to control blood sugar than gruel. The longer the same kind of food is cooked, the faster the blood sugar rises after eating it.
It is recommended that diabetics should not cook staple food for too long. If they can cook dry rice, they should not cook porridge. They should cook with quick fire and add less water.
4. How much do you eat?
In diet, exercise and medicine mix properly, Under the condition of good blood sugar control, diabetics do not need to change their daily staple food intake. For diabetics with poor blood sugar control, they first need to fix their daily staple food intake according to their daily food intake and weight, and then their doctors need to adjust hypoglycemic drugs according to their blood sugar.
According to sugar friends’ daily appetite, postprandial blood sugar and body shape, generally speaking, they eat about 5 ~ 8 staple foods every day. If rice is used to estimate, it is about 2.5 ~ 4 bowls. Sugar friends who are relatively tall and have more activities need to eat more.
It should be noted that diabetics should distribute these staple foods evenly among three meals a day. For example, if you eat 5 taels (2.5 bowls) of staple food a day, you can eat 1 taels (0.5 bowls) for breakfast, 2 taels (1 bowl) for lunch and 2 taels (1 bowl) for dinner.
Of course, different staple foods have different amounts of food to eat. The following staple foods can be blended and exchanged by diabetics:
- Half a bowl of coarse cereals rice, half a bowl of coarse cereals flour, half a bowl of coarse cereals steamed bread, half a bowl of coarse cereals beans, a piece of whole wheat bread, a fist-sized potato, and a bowl of vegetables with high starch content, such as pumpkin (4 ounces)
For example, if you eat a fist-sized potato at lunch, you will have to subtract half a bowl of coarse cereal rice.
Patients with diabetes need to be specially reminded that if their diet is adjusted, they must pay attention to monitoring postprandial blood sugar.
How to eat out?
If you eat outside and only have staple foods such as refined white rice flour to choose from, diabetics can make more efforts when ordering dishes.
You can order a dish such as [abundant grain] [bumper harvest] as staple food, which includes sweet potato, purple potato, corn, taro, yam, pumpkin, etc. This can greatly improve the diversity of staple food, and most of these dishes are steamed, free of oil and salt, which is not only conducive to the control of blood lipid, but also conducive to the prevention of excessive rise of blood sugar after meals.
6. Stomach is not good, can’t stand coarse cereals rice how to do?
The [stomach nourishing foods] in everyone’s impression, such as white rice porridge, white steamed bread, combed biscuits, etc., have fast digestion and absorption speed, which is not conducive to postprandial blood sugar control. Therefore, it is not recommended for diabetics to eat as staple food.
Diabetes patients with poor digestive function can still eat coarse cereals and miscellaneous beans, and can be properly cooked soft and rotten. If you feel uncomfortable eating coarse cereals and miscellaneous beans rice, you can choose coarse cereals and miscellaneous beans porridge, which can not only reduce the digestive burden of the stomach to a certain extent, but also ensure stable postprandial blood sugar as much as possible.