Nuts should be eaten in moderation with diabetes
Author: Anonymous Source: Diabetes Network Hits: 1959 Update Time :2009-4-1
Part of the elderly hospitalized patients with type efficacy of good, but some time after discharge, blood sugar to fluctuate repeatedly hospitalized. Under the fine to ask, I discovered that patients can be prescribed, although the amount of three meals a day diet, but the level daily to peanuts, walnuts, melon seeds, cashew nuts, almonds and other nuts as a snack. One-sided that the sugar content of nuts is low, does not affect blood sugar levels, eat right.
Amount of edible nuts with diabetes should be
In fact, the old taste cells decreased the sensitivity of taste bud cells decreased, most of them like to eat some food Weixiang, combined with a relatively monotonous life of older content, and more free time, sometimes like a snack break up the monotony. Dried foods can then free to eat? We can analyze in two ways: First, the nutritional content of nuts, dried fruit sugar content of foods by about 10% -25%, with about 30% fat -36 % sugar in the body heat 4 kcal per gram, fat 9 kcal per gram of heat, so are high-calorie foods; Second, analysis of nutrient metabolism from the body, fat, although a non-sugar substances, but if the intake of more than requirements, while the excess heat can be turned into body fat stored, so that weight gain, increased insulin burden, on the other lipids in the body through gluconeogenesis into glucose and glycogen, an indirect effect on blood glucose .
Therefore, dried foods have an impact on blood sugar levels and can not eat. But the nuts are rich in vitamin E needed by the body and unsaturated fatty acids help prevent cardiovascular disease and aging. If you eat, in accordance with the principle of equivalent exchange, minus the same amount of heat the staple food. Semi-dried fruit of heat equivalent to about two or two staples, can not exceed the total calories consumed amount of the case. In short, control of diabetes is not only the staple food, and pay attention to controlling the total calories.
