The editor’s grandmother is a diabetes patient. She has a history of diabetes for more than ten years and her blood sugar control is still stable.
Recently, a friend from Shanxi sent me a box of sweet potatoes grown by myself. They were not particularly sweet, but the sweet potato tasted very strong.
grandma was just eyeing her and wanted to eat sweet potatoes. She had never let her eat sweet potatoes. I was worried that it would affect her blood sugar. After all, she was old and controlling her blood sugar was not a trivial matter. If she was accidentally too high, she had to report to the hospital and didn't dare to make decisions without authorization.
I consulted a director of the endocrinology department. Let me share the advice given by the doctor: Can diabetics eat sweet potatoes? How much is the right way to eat? How to eat it properly?
(The article eliminates the steps to ask each other and the honorifics added in the conversation. After all, typing is also very tiring...)
Me: Can you eat sweet potatoes for diabetes
Director: How old is it? How is the blood sugar controlled usually
Me: 75 years old, female, after meal blood sugar is less than 10
Director: That's OK, can you eat some sweet potatoes
Me: How much is it? Can 2-3 be OK?
Director: Moderate amount, not too much. For example, if you usually eat 50 grams of rice, if you use sweet potatoes instead, you can eat about 70.
I: I still have to count the number, I don’t count it when eating
Director: Well, diabetic patients have certain requirements for carbohydrate intake and cannot consume too much, because carbohydrate will be converted into glucose , causing the sugar increase to become faster.
Me: Sweet potatoes belong to carbohydrates?
Director: Sweet potatoes are root vegetables, similar to potatoes, and are also considered coarse grains. They are carbohydrate . For diabetic patients, sweet potatoes are considered staple food and cannot be considered vegetables.
I: I understand, that is, it’s okay to eat less. After eating sweet potatoes, don’t eat other staple foods, and you won’t raise sugar, right
Director: You can understand this way. You can try to eat some sweet potatoes for lunch first, don’t eat them at night, and test your blood sugar after two days. After meals, you’ll be fine.
Me: OK, what is the sugar-raising index of sweet potatoes?
Director: When sweet potatoes are cooked and hot, the sugar content is high. The sugar index of hot sweet potatoes is 77, which is a food with high glycemic index; after cooling a little, the glycemic index will drop, which can be lower than 55, even if it is a food with low glycemic index.
Me: Then you can’t eat hot ones, you can only eat cold sweet potatoes? Can roasted sweet potatoes work?
Director: It’s OK to be warm, don’t be too hot, it’s not OK to be too cold, the elderly’s stomach can’t stand it, and the roasted sweet potato candy is too high, it’s not OK.
Director: Steam it for a while and eat it when it is warm, and the sugar is relatively low.
Director: Eating sweet potatoes is to replace the staple food. You can’t eat other staple foods, nor can you eat dishes made from potatoes, otherwise the carbohydrates will be too high.
Director: Try having lunch first, such as a bowl of sweet potatoes with so much rice. After eating for two days, test your blood sugar after meals. If it is not high, try to eat some sweet potatoes for dinner. In fact, it is good for the elderly to eat sweet potatoes in moderation. Sweet potatoes have high dietary fiber content, which can help gastrointestinal motility and help defecate.
Me: Yes, I feel relieved. Many people say they can’t eat it and don’t let them eat sweet
Director: That’s unscientific. Diabetes reasonably says that you can eat any food, but it’s a matter of quantity. If you have very high sugar, you should eat less. If you have generally high sugar, you should eat more. If you have less sugar, you should eat more. If you can't eat any sugar, it will easily become malnourished, especially for the elderly.
According to the doctor's knowledge, my grandma finally ate the sweet potatoes I niannian. After eating them at noon on the first day, she tested her blood sugar at around 9 o'clock in the afternoon, and she was still acceptable. She took them for another two days and it was around 9 o'clock and did not exceed the standard.
Through this time, I have also increased my knowledge that diabetic patients can have free food types, but the amount of food is not free. I hope my analysis can help some diabetic patients, eat scientifically and enjoy life.
