Autumn is here, this is the best health season of the year. Many patients with diabetes hope to use this autumn to control their blood sugar by improving their diet. Especially under the epidemic, travel and medical treatment in many areas are restricted. For diabetic patients, it is particularly important to manage their health in daily life and eat some foods that are helpful for improving blood sugar.
"is a medicine that has three parts poisonous". Even if you have diabetes, many patients do not want to take medicine easily. They all hope to find some healthy foods that are "full and not sugar-raising". In recent years, with the development of the Internet, health science popularization content on the Internet has become more and more popular. Some health marketing accounts have also begun to recommend various sugar-lowering foods, but the fact is that many of them have no obvious sugar-lowering effects. These unrigorous and even add fuel to the fire of science are entirely for traffic and are very harmful.
Among the so-called low-smoking foods, these three are at the forefront:
. Pumpkin
There is a saying among diabetic patients that "eating more pumpkin can lower blood sugar". Many diabetic patients believe it and wish they can eat all meals. All I can say is that everyone has been deceived. There has been a long time since the saying that pumpkin lowers sugar due to experiments showing that the "pumpkin polysaccharide" it is rich in can increase the activity of insulin and help lower blood sugar. However, this data is mainly based on purified pumpkin polysaccharides and does not come from human experimental data. Pumpkin itself contains a lot of starch and sugar, which is a high-sugar-raising food. Eating it more will increase blood sugar.
2. Okra
Many health sciences mention that okra is the nemesis of diabetes. Okra itself is indeed a food with extremely low sugar content, and is rich in soluble dietary fiber , which can prevent the digestion of carbohydrate and delay blood sugar absorption. From the theoretical data, it can indeed lower sugar. But like pumpkin, the dietary fiber we consume in daily eating okra is very limited, and the effect it can even be ignored.
3. Bitter melon
Research has found that bitter melon juice extract contains a variety of active ingredients for lowering sugar. Among them, the structure of the polypeptide substances is similar to that of insulin and can simulate the physiological effects of insulin. It is called "plant insulin", which is the main reason why bitter melon is praised as a food for lowering sugar.
But many people don’t know that the sugar-lowering ingredients extracted from bitter melon are used in a similar way to insulin, and they all need to be injected subcutaneously to achieve their effect. Just eating that little bitter melon every day has no effect at all. What's more, bitter melon is a seasonal vegetable and it is impossible to eat it often.
Based on experimental data and theory, these foods can indeed lower sugar. But putting aside reality and method and talking only about theory, there is no point in talking about it. If diabetic patients want to effectively control their blood sugar in autumn, a healthy and low-sugar diet and scientific and reasonable exercise are the basis. We might as well do the following three things.
. Real-time monitoring of blood sugar data
The popularity of household blood glucose meters makes blood sugar monitoring more and more convenient. Now you only need to install the Xianhunbird Intelligent Blood Sugar Management APP and bind blood glucose meter to monitor and record blood sugar data without leaving home.
Pioneer Bird APP can automatically record blood sugar in real time for 7 time periods on an empty stomach, before meals, two hours after meals, and the day before bedtime, and generate various forms of data such as trends, statistics, charts, etc., so that we can analyze the blood sugar control situation. At the same time, Pioneer Bird can calculate a number of indicators such as the average blood sugar value, high and low peak value, to help us further understand blood sugar fluctuations and obtain more scientific blood sugar indicators.
2. Strictly control the carbohydrate and calories in food
Diabetic patients all understand the meaning of a low-sugar diet, but in real life it is easy to exceed the sugar and calories. Diabetic patients should not only know what to eat, but also learn to control the amount.This control amount does not only refer to controlling the amount of food, but also requires accurate calculation of the carbohydrates and calories in the food. You must understand which ones you can eat more, and which ones you must eat less.
If we really don’t understand the specific carbohydrate and calorie data in food, we can use the diet record function of Pioneer Bird APP to calculate it. Pioneer Bird APP has a rich ingredient library. Just click on the type of food consumed for each meal to easily calculate the intake of each meal.
3. Scientific drinking water
The weather in autumn is dry, and the human body needs to replenish more water. However, many diabetic patients resist drinking water because they are worried about the problem of "drinking more and urinating more", which is actually unnecessary. Diabetic patients may have aggravated their condition if they drink too little or too much water or eat incorrectly. Because drinking less water worsens the condition significantly more than drinking more water.
Diabetic patients pay attention to science when drinking water. Drinking less at a time and drinking water in multiple times has very little impact on health. At the same time, it should be noted that sugar-free beverages cannot be used as a substitute for water. Boiled water, mineral water, and tea are the ideal source of moisture for diabetic patients.
Finally, I would like to remind everyone that blood sugar control is always inseparable from self-discipline and self-management. Never be overly superstitious and mythical about some foods.
