Some Facts about Diabetic Diets

Although diabetes is considered to be a serious disease, one can live with it rather fully. The doctors are sure that patients’ state can be improved with the help of diabetic diet! The principle diet rule is products strictly bounded from easy digested carbohydrates. First of all it’s sugar, sweets, jam, confectionery, liqueurs, vines and lemonades. In addition to that it’s better to set a veto on raisins, grape and fig because its glucose absorbs into the blood. That leads to quick blood sugar level increase and therefore to reaction. Sugar cancellation is very difficult especially for those who have been carried away with jam, cakes and ice-cream. That’s why one should find a tasty replacement to every day sweets. If diabetes is benign one can eat 2 teaspoons of honey two times a day. If the situation there are many types of sugar substitutes that can improve diabetic life. Today there are 200 of them. Some of them are even sweeter than sugar. Sweeteners can be used not only in tea and coffee but in cooking. But one should take into consideration that they contain aspartame and it can lose taste and even become bitter in hot dishes. Indifferent health state can be caused not only by high blood sugar level but by its reduce. This state is called hypoglycemia and it is followed with sudden weakness, palpitation, sudden hunger and headache. In that case one should eat 3-4 sugar pieces at once, drink a cup of hot sweet tea and have a sandwich with cheese and sausage. It’s better to have lump sugar pieces always in order to render first aid to oneself. The diabetic must never be hungry! Hunger for a health person is a natural feeling and he can stand it for an hour, twenty-four hours and even some days. But it’s intolerably for a diabetic. He should try to eat 5-6 times a day and don’t overeat. The growing appetite at the middle of the day can be relieved by a cup of tea, vegetables: cucumber, tomato, carrot. Diabetic diets require careful and slow food chewing. Every day menu should be various and not high-calorie. The welcome products on the table are such heal food as vegetables and fruits that contain different vitamins, minerals and plant fibers. The healthiest are carrot and cabbage, cucumbers and tomatoes. It’s better to eat them when they are fresh. Vegetable marrows and aubergine take the second place. In winter vegetables can be stewed. There saved more vitamins this way than while boiling. Speaking about fruits and berries it’s better to eat lemons, oranges, cranberries, gooseberries, haws, cowberries and black chokeberry. One can’t imagine the every day ration without the food cooked from meal. It’s enough to eat 2-3 slices of such bread a day. So here is an example of the day of diabetic diet: Breakfast 250ml of not sweet tea 45g of pumpernickel 50 g of melt cheese 30% 100g of tomatoes Lunch 100g of baked chicken breast 40g of natural juice or sugar-free juice 62g of potato trickled pastries 80g cabbage salad with dill Snack 50g of peeled grapefruit Dinner 70g of sweet pepper stuffed with champignons 20g of stewed rice 55g of tomato salad with leek Second Dinner 100g of cucumbers with 24g of bread