Patients suffering from diabetes have to be well educated about their diet along with monitoring their levels to keep the blood sugar level under control. A well planned diet always helps to keep the diabetic complications at bay. Here are few important facts which have to be carefully noted by diabetic patients, while consuming food.
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Spread your daily diet over three healthy meals and two healthy snacks.
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2.Strictly avoid extra intake of salt. Pickles, fast foods, chips, chats etc are laden with salt. Hence avoid these in your diet.
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Reduce Fat in your diet. Increased fat doubles the chances of heart diseases especially in diabetics.
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Reduce quantity of carbohydrates. Foods like rice, wheat, ragi, jowar etc are rich in carbohydrates. Reducing the quantity helps to control diabetes.
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Strictly say no to sugar , sweets, chocolates, ice creams, soft drinks etc.
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Include foods which are rich in nutrients like proteins, vitamins and minerals. Pulses, sprouts, green leafy vegetables, fruits, skimmed milk, butter milk etc are good sources of above mentioned nutrients.
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Avoid foods which have high glycemic index. Potatoes, carrots, breads and banana have high glycemic index and they increase the blood-sugar levels.
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Avoid red meat and reduce consumption of eggs. Lean fish can be used once in a week. It is always advisable for non vegetarians to slowly shift to vegetarian diet to prevent the complications of diabetes.
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Ayurveda acharyas strongly suggest not to eat sweets and preparations which are made from sugar and jaggary (gur) as main ingredient.
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Texts of ayurveda recommend reduced intake of food which are rich in starch.
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In ayurveda text “yogaratnakara”, it is mentioned that increased intake of cooked rice (anna), full fat milk (ksheera), red meat and other kapha increasing foods leads to diabetes.
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