Why is it important in Diabetic Food?

Why is it important in Diabetic Food?

Why it's important
Food on a Diabetic?

     It helps to normalize blood glucose
     Maintains or corrects the weight
     Corrects dyslipidemia and hypertension
     Improves QUALITY OF LIFE preventing or delaying the onset of chronic complications


What is Fiber?

Fiber adds bulk to the diet, it makes the person feel faster satiety, can help control weight. It also helps digestion, prevent constipation and sometimes used for the treatment of diverticulosis, diabetes and heart disease.

GLYCEMIC INDEX

It is a numerical system of measuring how the carbohydrate raises levels of blood sugar. The higher the number, the greater the response of blood sugar. A low glycemic food will cause a small rise, while a high GI food will produce an excessive rise.

What is a low glycemic food?


• A smaller increase in the levels of blood glucose after eating.
• Help you lose weight.
• Helps improve diabetes control level.
• Maintains any longer the feeling of fullness after eating.
• Improves the body's sensitivity to insulin.

Food exchange list

There are 6 groups exchange:

     milk
     vegetables
     fruits
     starchy
     Meats and substitutes
     fats

• 1 cup milk:
- 1 cup of skim milk.
- ¼ cup skim milk powder.
- 1 low fat yogurt.
• Vegetables:
- Broccoli, tomato, artichoke, eggplant, peppers, watercress, cauliflower, asparagus, cucumber, radish, lettuce, zucchini, beets, carrots, pumpkin, etc. ½ cup cooked 1 cup raw
• Fruits:
- Unit 1 medium orange / tangerine.
- 1 small unit pear / apple / handle.
- 1 medium peach unit.
- ½ unit cambur.
- 2 medium plum units.
- 1 cup strawberries.
- 2 cups melon / milky / pin
- 12 units of grapes.
- 1 medium pineapple wheel
- 1 glass of smoothie
• Starchy:
- 1 slice of white bread or brown square.
- 2-4 units of whole-grain crackers.
- ½ cup of whole grains.
- ½ cup of pasta / rice / mashed potatoes.
- 1 small arepas
• Meat or substitute:
- 1 slice of cooked / cheese ham.
- 1 piece of sausage.
- 1 unit of egg.
- 30 grams of meat / chicken / fish.
• Fat:
- 1 tsp margarine / butter.
- 1 tbsp. heavy cream.
- 1 tsp olive oil / corn / canola.
- 5 units of olives.
- 6 units of almonds / peanuts.

alcoholic beverages

• Alcohol provides no nutrients, just empty calories (1 gram of alcohol contains 7 calories).
• The alcohol calories you become fat, altering the levels of cholesterol and triglycerides.

Alcohol is absorbed directly from the stomach into the blood and then to the liver where it is metabolized. When the liver is filled with alcohol its ability to release glucose into the blood is blocked, causing hypoglycemia.
• Use alcohol after consulting your doctor.
• Use alcohol only when your diabetes is well controlled.
• Know what kinds of alcohols are allowed and which are not.
• Do not drink on an empty stomach to avoid hypoglycemia
• Eating, max one serving of alcohol (in women) or two (men) per day


GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS

• Distribute food into 5 or 6 meals a day.
• Always prefer foods high in fiber
• Do not skip meals.
• Use baked, boiled or grilled foods.
• Avoid fried foods.
• Chew food thoroughly.
• Using dietary products (Light) sparingly and under medical guidance.
• Drink plenty of water during the day (approx 8 cups / day).
• Moderate consumption of alcohol.
• Prefer vegetables and whole fruits.
• Prefer comprehensive farinaceous.
• Remove visible fat from meat before eating.
• Replace the simple sugar sweeteners.
• Read labels carefully industrialized products, verifying if they contain sugar (sucrose or glucose).
• Consult plan to lose or maintain body weight.


"Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food"
                                                 Hippocrates