Diabetes diet:
“The Diabetic Diet”

Easy diabetic diet to regulate the sugar blood level.

The Diabetic Diet allows you to take care of your health and help to prevent complications due to diabetes.

Having diabetes doesn't mean that you have to start eating special foods or follow a complicated diabetes diet plan. For most people, a diabetes diet simply translates into eating a variety of foods in moderate amounts and sticking to regular mealtimes.

What is diabetes?

A person with diabetes doesn't produce insulin, or produces very few quantity of insulin for the body. The insulin helps to regulate the sugar blood level or blood glucose.

Following are the most common type of diabetes diet:

• Type 1 Diabetic Diet: Type 1 diabetes is an insulin dependent type which generally for its diet is to find a balance between the food intake and insulin.

• Type 2 Diabetic Diet: Type 2 diet  is link to obesity problems, maintaining your ideal weight in order to improve the body's ability to utilize insulin and type 2 diabetes can be controlled through proper diet and exercise alone.

Main illnesses due to diabetes:
Slow circulation of blood, comma, leg loss (amputation).

Diabetes Diet Guidelines: Tips to Lower Diabetes Risk

Diabetic persons must eat meals with high carbohydrates or starches, eat regularly and in adequate quantities. This prevents the sugar blood level decrease (hypoglycemia) or increase (hyperglycemia). Both conditions can be dangerous (hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia).

Diabetic people must eat at the same hour (regularly), especially if they use insulin. If you use insulin and you don't eat regularly you will be taking a risk of hypoglycemia. This can cause sickness, faints and up entering to comma.

Diabetic persons must eat adequate quantities of carbohydrates. If you don't eat sufficiently, you will have symptoms of hypoglycemia. If you eat too many carbohydrates you will have symptoms of hyperglycemia. These symptoms look alike to those of hypoglycemia, they include sickness, faints, and in end, comma.

Diabetic Diet Menu for Diabetes

First of all, consult your doctor to know the quantity of carbohydrates you need to eat in every meal (breakfast, lunch, dinner). For snacks, insure to know and comply with the hours that you have to eat. Usually, this is the allowed quantity of carbohydrates:

• 85 oz of carbohydrates (250 grs). It's equivalent to bread (70 oz, 200 grs) and boiled potatoes (70 oz, 200 gr).
• 25 oz of proteins (80 grs). It's equivalent to meat (35 oz, 100 grs) or fish (70 oz, 200 grs).
• 20 oz of fat (60 grs). It's equivalent to butter or vegetable fat (20 oz, 60 grs).

Example of diabetic diet menu:

Breakfast:
2 slices whole-wheat toast
2 tbs. peanut butter
1 small banana
1 cup of tea or coffee

Snack
10 red or green grapes
½ c. cottage cheese
1 cup of herbal tea

Lunch
2 slices whole-wheat bread
3 oz. lean roast beef
1 cup of raw or steamed cauliflower
1 cup of tea or coffee

Snack
15 almonds
2 small cookies
1 cup of fat-free milk

Dinner
3 oz. of chicken breast, with 1 cup of vegetables of your choice
1 tbs. olive oil (for cooking)
2/3 cup of cooked brown rice
1 cup of fat-free milk

Drinks allowed in the Diabetes Diet Menu

In the diabetic diet, you can drink: spring water, coffee, tea, wine, champagne brut, beer light and whisky.

Tips to Diabetes and Lose Weight

You can lose weight during your diabetic diet, eating daily salad, especially lettuce and fresh cucumbers, with vinegar and fresh vegetables. Other food allowed is pumpkin, grapefruits, mushrooms, asparagus, tomatoes, green beans, watercress, leeks, cabbage, spinach and spinach beets.

Before starting a diet, please consult your nutritionist, she help you lose weight in good health.