Diet therapy is an important part of comprehensive treatment for diabetes, is the foundation of diabetes treatment. But doctors in the process of talking with diabetes, will find that many patients error exists in the diet.

Sugar diet don't fall myth

The first affiliated hospital of anhui medical university professor Fang Zhaohui

Source: health

        Myth: porridge as staple food someone want to control the intake of food, but he couldn't help hunger, was thinking about drink porridge. Little imagine, cooked, boiled food, and water cut much food easy to digest absorb, blood sugar increases the speed of fast, that is to say, the speed of the rise in blood sugar after drink gruel is far better than to eat rice, steamed buns, WoTou and multigrain bread is faster, so some people say that drink gruel like drink sugar water.

        Erroneous zone 2: more tofu somebody thinks that soy products do not contain sugar, eat more no problem. But bean products in the body will be converted into sugar, transformation only slower (about 3 hours). Especially the elderly and of longer duration of diabetes high consumption of vegetable protein, can cause the body nitrogenous waste too much, kidney burden heavier.

        Myth 3: don't eat fruits many patients "talk about fruit color change", since the disease of fruit very few takers. Some of the fruit sugar content are low, such as apple, pear sugar only 10% ~ 10%. So the fruit to eat, but in moderation. For the postprandial blood glucose below 10 millimoles per liter of patients, a day can eat an apple or pear, but should be put in between meals to eat, and the quantity of heat of fruit calculated within the total quantity of heat.

        Myth 4: there is no sugar in nature there are a lot of sugar-free food sweet substances, such as stevia, arabinose, xylitol, fructose and aspartame can be used as diabetes sweetener. Sold on the market of sugar-free cakes, sugarless yoghurt with xylitol as sweeteners. These sweeteners can increase the sweetness of food, but does not increase the quantity of heat food. But this kind of food can be converted into glucose, such as the flour in food should think about this, do not be fooled by the word "sugar free. In addition, aspartame, also known as protein sugar, department of two kinds of amino acid condensation, when production can't heating.

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