Published 13:12 IST, October 12th 2019
Diabetes Diet: Know what food to avoid to control the disease
Eating the wrong foods will increase your blood sugar and insulin levels and that can raise your disease risk; these are the foods to control diabetes
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Diabetes is a chronic disease that has reached global epidemic proportions. re are many serious conditions that follow uncontrolled diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, blindness, and or complications. Such disorders are also correlated with prediabetes. Specifically, eating wrong foods will increase your blood sugar and insulin levels and stimulate inflammation, which can raise your disease risk. se are foods that you have to avoid.
Avoid se food to control diabetes
SUGARY FOOD
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Sugary drinks, for anyone with diabetes, is worst choice of cocktail. To begin with, y are very high in carbohydrates, delivering 38 grams sugar in soda alone. same volume of sweetened iced tea and lemone also contains carbs from sugar alone. se are also filled with fructose, which is strongly linked with resistance to insulin and diabetes. Neverless, studies suggest that drinking sugar-sweetened bevers can increase risk of disorders related to diabetes like fatty liver. Inste of sugary drinks, use milk, club soda, or unsweetened iced tea to help control blood sugar levels and prevent disease risk.
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SNACK ON FRESH FRUIT INSTE OF DRIED FRUIT
While dried fruit provides fiber and many nutrients, moisture is lost by dehydration process, so eating more is better. While it is safer for you to snack on raisins and dried apricots than to eat a cake, it will still cause your blood sugar to soar. Avoid dried fruit and inste choose whole fruits that induce a smaller and faster increase in blood glucose.
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EATING OILY, FRIED FOOD
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You may have a weakness for fried foods like french fries, fried chicken, and potato chips, but it will be healthier for your health in long run to fulfill this desire for ar way. According to reports, usually, fried foods soak up tons of oil, which is equal to a lot of extra calories. y don't just raise blood sugar at end of meal; digesting fat takes longer and it can continue over a long period of time. So it keeps blood sugar up for longer too.
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ALCOHOL
Before indulging in a cocktail or even a glass of wine with lunch, check with your doctor to make sure that drinking alcohol is healthy as it may tamper with your levels of blood sugar. Drink in balance if you are intoxicated. A standard serving is measured as 5 ounces of wine and 1.5 of distilled liquor.
Lastly, People tend to think "organic" sweeteners like honey are all right, but body does t differentiate between se kinds of sugars. ne of m are healthy for diabetic people.
09:21 IST, October 12th 2019