How to eat with type 2 diabetes

Diabetes type 2 diabetes most often goes "hand in hand" with obesity, so these patients first need to lose weight. Even minor loss of 5-10% of total body weight will help to reduce the level of blood glucose and also cholesterol and blood pressure. The diet of the diabetic should be healthy, not too high in calories, high in nutrients and low in fat.

Diabetes is not a death sentence. The patient is not necessarily to limit myself in everything, it is important to know which foods significantly increase the level of sugar in the blood and which slowly raise the level of glucose due to the ability of their constituent carbohydrate to be absorbed gradually. So honey, sweets and pastries from the diet of a diabetic will be completely excluded, because they can cause hyperglycemia – a condition in which the level of glucose in the blood increases. The same applies to sweet juices, carbonated drinks, alcohol, potato, rice, wheat cereals, dried fruit, fresh pastries and all products of animal origin with high fat.

Healthier is rye bread better than yesterday, and tea drinking green, because other varieties can cause a rise in blood pressure. You need to drink up to 2 liters of fluid per day – mineral water, tomato juice, low-fat dairy products, and diluted unsweetened fruit drinks. The salad fill with lemon juice or vegetable oil, and it is better to cook steamed vegetables or baked in their own juice. No restriction, you can use cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, onions, herbs, mushrooms, lemons and cranberries. Occasionally you can afford the beets, carrots and fruits, and potatoes from the diet is better to exclude completely.

A diabetic can make your own menu of the following products: boiled beef low-fat varieties, low-fat fish boiled or baked in the oven, fresh cabbage or sauerkraut, beans, pasta durum, chicken meat (breast is better), cheese with fat content not more than 30%, cottage cheese, low-fat milk, brown rice, oats, buckwheat or pearl barley and sour fruits – citrus, apples, black and red currants, strawberries, pears, peaches, etc.

Persons suffering from diabetes mellitus type 2, needs to sit down 5-6 times a day and eat small portions, chewing food thoroughly and avoiding overeating. If you really want, you can treat yourself to a little sweet dessert, but then the rest of the meals will have to abandon carbohydrate foods at all. Fats must be present in the diet of diabetic, but not hydrogenated, and are useful, which are very much in the red fish, nuts, avocados, olive oil, etc. for Diabetics in any case not to skip Breakfast. Resolved and snacks. In this capacity well suited to apples, bananas or bread.

Patients with diabetes type 2 diabetes it is important to control the number of calories consumed. To do this, you can keep a diary and every day to compare the calorie content of your diet, to ensure that it was the same. It is easier to get used to a new life and adapt to the new conditions of supply.