Food intake increases and physical activity decreases after pregnancy, and it becomes more difficult to control blood sugar after meals. There are more and more expectant mothers with gestational diabetes. If gestational diabetes occurs during pregnancy, it is a great hidden danger to the health of the fetus. If the mother is overweight and the blood sugar control is not good, it will have a great impact on the maturity of fetal lung development, and the risk of premature birth, giant babies, and non-chromosomal genetic defects will increase exponentially. From the perspective of the mother, After the baby's blood sugar levels return to normal, the risk of diabetes in the future will be several to ten times higher than normal.
For expectant mothers suffering from gestational diabetes, how to eat three meals a day? Z1z
focuses on the main dietary adjustments:
1. Choose staple foods that respond to hypoglycemia. Avoid eating too many staple foods made from refined white rice and refined white flour, and some of them are replaced with staple foods made from whole grains and starchy beans. For example, replace rice with rice, millet, oatmeal, and replace white rice porridge with red bean, purple rice, brown rice porridge, and so on.
2. Choose a lot of green leafy vegetables, preferably before eating the staple food. Eating more vegetables first during meals is more conducive to controlling blood sugar fluctuations than eating rice at the beginning. Mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, fungus and other fungus vegetables can also be eaten with green leafy vegetables, the effect is also good.
3. Protein-based foods such as milk, eggs, fish, soy products and staple foods should be taken together. More protein helps to delay digestion and improve satiety. Eating a lot of protein foods will ensure that the growth and development of the fetus will be more effectively promoted when the appetite drops. If part of the meat is replaced with fish and milk, it will help blood sugar control, because milk protein, calcium and the omega-3 fatty acids contained in fish help improve blood sugar control.
4. Reduce the amount of cooking fat. Although fat itself does not turn into blood sugar, studies have shown that eating too much fat can reduce insulin sensitivity. Use as little oil as possible for daily cooking. It is recommended to use tea seed oil and olive oil in cooking oil.
5. Avoid eating sweets, sweet drinks and bread, biscuits, cookies, crisps and most other baked goods, even if they are called "sugar-free".
6. Appropriately limit the amount of fruit. Some expectant mothers have heard that fruit is good, and it is not advisable to eat 1kg of fruit every day. It is recommended that fruits be 250g per day, and apples, peaches, strawberries, kiwis, oranges, etc. with lower blood sugar response are preferred.
7. Generally, it is not recommended to cook the food too badly, and do not mash, beating, or juice.
