Tag: Diabetes

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The weather is cold, and those who want to drink and warm up need to be cautious.

At ordinary times, when he is alone at home, Mr. Chen likes to study various health preserving methods and brew some health preserving [medicated wine]. When the temperature drops, Mr. Chen is used to calling on a few old friends to bring in a pot of small wine [to warm his body]. His method of keeping in good health with wine is still well-known among his neighbors and friends. Until one day, when I heard that Liu from the next village died of cerebral hemorrhage after drinking, Chen began to worry……. This day is getting colder and colder. Should we drink warm-up wine? Drinking to warm up is an illusion. Why do we really feel warm after drinking? This kind Read More …

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How does diabetes hurt the kidney?

Kidney is an extremely important organ of human body. There are millions of small blood vessels with filtering function in the kidney, which are jointly responsible for removing metabolic wastes from human blood. Diabetes can damage the function of this filtration system, resulting in renal insufficiency. The damaged kidney can no longer effectively filter out metabolic wastes in blood, eventually leading to kidney disease. How does diabetes cause nephropathy? When we eat and digest protein foods, we will produce a large amount of metabolic waste. In the kidney, a large number of capillaries and small holes in the wall of blood vessels are natural filters, which can effectively filter out metabolic waste and retain beneficial components in blood. As blood Read More …

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Hypoglycemia before meals? Could be a sign of diabetes

The onset of type 2 diabetes is slow and the symptoms are hidden. The vast majority of patients do not have typical [hyperglycemia] symptoms such as polyuria, excessive drinking, excessive eating and weight loss. Some patients even see a doctor because of [hypoglycemia] before meals, showing recurrent hypoglycemia symptoms such as hunger, palpitation, shaking hands and cold sweat before meals, which can be relieved after eating. Why do diabetics suffer from preprandial hypoglycemia? Under normal circumstances, After eating, Blood sugar rises, Stimulate insulin secretion. Elevated insulin will quickly shut down the production of endogenous glucose in the liver. At the same time, it also promotes the intake and utilization of glucose by peripheral tissues, so the postprandial blood sugar will Read More …

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Can diabetics eat fruit?

As an extremely harmful and deceptive pseudoscientific conclusion, [diabetic patients cannot eat fruits] is widely circulated in the society. I once received a representative diabetic patient who has not touched fruits for more than ten years. His logical deduction is very simple: cannot eat sweets + fruits are very sweet and cannot eat fruits. The poor ten years or so are personal tragedies and dereliction of duty in diabetes health education. In the Internet era, the high-speed dissemination of information is a double-edged sword. As a doctor, one must use this sword well to make and transmit scientific voices. Glycemic index (GI) Assuming that we organized all the food to take an examination, The test question is the ability of Read More …

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How should diabetics eat?

There are many misunderstandings about diabetes diet, and endocrinologists have not done less work to clarify and refute the rumor. However, the source of the rumor is quite related to doctors. If you ask the doctors at that time the same question in different years: [Should diabetes patients eat scientifically in how? We will hear completely different answers. At the end of the 18th century, John Rollo, a British doctor, first discovered: When diabetics eat bread, grains, fruits and other foods, their urine sugar increases, while when they eat meat foods, their urine sugar decreases relatively. Later, he advocated a far-reaching low carbohydrate diet, high fat and high protein diet. To this day, erroneous views such as “diabetics cannot eat Read More …

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Diabetes patients want to eat sweets, how to choose various sugars?

Adding Sugar-The Killer of Obesity, Diabetes and Dental Caries According to the World Health Organization (WHO), [Free sugar] refers to monosaccharides and disaccharides added to food by manufacturers, cooks or consumers, plus sugars naturally occurring in honey, syrup and fruit juice. Monosaccharides have one sugar molecule and include glucose, galactose and fructose. Disaccharides have two sugar molecules. The most widely consumed disaccharides are sucrose or granulated sugar. However, sugar in whole fruits and vegetables is not included. We have compiled a table to let everyone know the characteristics of common added sugar. Sweeteners-Not the Solution Compared with added sugar, sweeteners are not carbohydrates, which will not cause dental caries, increase blood sugar and contain no energy while providing sweet taste. Read More …

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How to eat [Mediterranean diet] that keeps people away from the three highs?

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea area located in Europe, Asia and Africa. In the last century, people found that the incidence of diseases such as “three highs” in Mediterranean residents was relatively low and the average life span was relatively long. This is attributed to their diet structure, so the concept of “Mediterranean diet” came into being. Stay away from the three highs, how to eat is very important. With the improvement of material living standards, the incidence of chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, hypertension and diabetes is also getting higher and higher. The formation of these diseases is chronic and long-term, and the control and treatment are also long-term, and diet and nutrition play an important Read More …

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Most people are wrong! Ten Mistakes in Diet for Diabetes Mellitus

According to World Health Organization (WHO) data, a total of about 1.5 million people worldwide died directly from diabetes in 2012. By 2030, diabetes will be the seventh leading cause of death. If our parents and grandparents have diabetes, our chances of developing diabetes will be greater. Even if there is no family history, if our living habits are unhealthy, our chances of developing type 2 diabetes are very high. Controlling blood sugar and paying attention to diet are things that everyone should pay attention to. Let’s take a look at the top 10 misconceptions about diabetes and see if you have ever been trapped by them. Myth 1: Diabetes is caused by eating too much sugar, Truth: The factors Read More …

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When the doctor got gout himself, he wanted to say these words to everyone.

First of all, I would like to introduce myself. I am a medical doctor studying in a medical school of a university in Shanghai. I usually travel from clinic to laboratory. The rhythm of doctors is usually very busy. Sudden pain Last National Day, when relatives came to my family, I helped my parents and didn’t drink much water for two days. On October 4 (2015), I suddenly felt that my heel and ankle were painful and it was difficult to walk. As a surgeon, the first reaction in my mind is: twisted? However, if you think about it carefully, you don’t seem to have touched it before, and you haven’t run recently. Just when he was puzzled, the father Read More …