Posted on June 23, 2008 in Latest News
Diabetics need a balanced normal diet, with all food groups and plenty of fruits and vegetables. They should avoid excess fat and protein. They do not normally need any extra supplements, especially if they are taking plenty of brightly colour veggies like carrots, broccoli, spinach, yellow petha, etc, which have high amounts of anti-oxidants. Here’s a right guide to the fruits and veggies diabetics can eat without fear.
- Current recommendations for diabetics are to take plenty of fruits and vegetables, as naturally occurring fruit sugar (fructose) is more slowly absorbed than sucrose, and raises the blood glucose to a lesser extent. As far as possible, try to take them unpeeled, to maintain a high fiber content. Very sweet fruits (mango, banana, chikoo, etc) can be taken in small portions, along with a meal to reduce the spike in blood glucose.
- For people with diabetes - eating too many starchy vegetables or too much of one starchy vegetable, or more starchy vegetables than usual, may raise blood glucose levels more than is desirable. Starchy vegetables such as potato, kumara, corn, yams, taro, breadfruit and cassava are high in carbohydrate. Non-starchy vegetables contain very little carbohydrate, eg. broccoli, peas, green beans, lettuce, puha, watercress, kamo kamo, parengo.
- High fiber diet is recommended for people suffering from diabetes. Fiber is digested very slowly and as a result blood sugar level rises very slowly. A high-fiber diet that includes fiber rich fruits and vegetables, whole grains, beans, sweet potatoes, oatmeal, zucchini, oranges and raisin helps reduce insulin dosage by 25 %.
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August 22nd, 2008 at 8:54 pm
This page was extremely helpful to me. I am a new diabetic and just got atrial fibration. I need to change the way I eat immediately.