If You Have Diabetes, What Can You Drink?
Diabetes, when diagnosed can change your life and lifestyle. If you are diagnosed with diabetes (type 1 or type 2 diabetes) food can (and should) occupy a center stage for you. You start thinking what you can eat and drink and what you can not eat/drink if you have diabetes and you try to learn more and more information regarding foods you can take and food you should avoid in diabetes.
If you are thinking only about your meals, you should give a thought about beverages you are taking, because beverages you drink may increase blood sugar level, as many of the beverages contain sweetener and calorie.
Some of the beverages you can drink safely without fear of increasing your blood sugar level and these are also recommended by diabetologists as they contain zero calories or very low calorie and they include:
Categories: Diabetes Tags: Fruit juice, micro nutrients
Some Common Questions About Pre-diabetes
Prediabetes is a condition where blood glucose level is higher than normal but not high enough to diagnose it as diabetes. Studies has shown that majority of prediabetics develop type-2 diabetes within 10 years. It is therefore important to find out if you are prediabetics, because it is possible to delay/prevent development of type-2 diabetes if proper preventive measures are taken.
Why should I know if I have prediabetes?
The simple reason for knowing if you have prediabetes is that, majority of prediabetics will develop type-2 diabetes within 10 years and it is possible to delay/prevent development of diabetes from prediabetes by taking appropriate measures such as lifestyle modification (daily physical exercise of approximately 30 minutes), adopting healthy eating habits with lots of fresh fruits and vegetables. If you know you have prediabetes you can take measures to prevent diabetes. There are also some oral hypoglycemic drugs which can help in preventing diabetes.
Categories: Diabetes Tags: OGTT, prediabetes
Diabetes Diet Plan for Vegetarians
If you are vegetarian and a diabetes patient, you must plan your diet well. The usual diet plan for diabetes patients, as recommended by ADA (American Diabetes Association) i.e. “the plate method” can not be used for vegetarian diabetics, because one of the portions of the plate method, i.e. one fourth of the plate consists of meat and meat substitutes such as fish or other animal products, which vegetarians do not eat. The vegetarian diet for diabetics must be well planned.
The numbers of vegetarians are increasing even in western industrialized world, although in many countries such as India a major percentage of population is vegetarian traditionally. The vegetarian diet is healthy, even if you have diabetes. Recent research suggests that eating vegetarian diet can help in controlling diabetes as well as in preventing diabetes. Eating vegetarian diet is a healthy option.
The Ten Diabetes Super-foods
Diabetes patients, please stop for a moment and learn about the top ten diabetes super foods you should be aware of. Blend the top ten diabetes super foods into your diabetes diet and improve your glycemic control (control of blood glucose level) as well as your health. The super foods should be blend for individuals in such a way that it suits health requirement and also allow your traditional eating habit.
Make your own diabetic meal plan with the help of top ten diabetes super foods adding appropriate amount of the foods mentioned. The super foods are rich in nutrients such as beta carotene, vitamin C, vitamin E, fiber, minerals such as calcium, magnesium, potassium etc. which may be insufficient in most typical western diet. You should think of and plan to get all your nutrients from food you eat, instead of taking supplements to cover deficiency of nutrients in diet. This hold good for non diabetic individuals as well and supplementation avoided as far as practicable.
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Diet Plan for Diabetes
Diagnosed with type-1 or type-2 diabetes? You may be confused where to begin management for your diabetes. The first thing you should do is to learn about the disease (especially the relationship of diabetes and nutrition) and adapt to live with diabetes (it is possible to live healthy and normal life with diabetes). Next thing you should do is modify your eating habits and also the amount you eat.
Categories: Diabetes Tags: ADA, Non starchy vegetables, Plate method, Starchy foods
Research and Epidemiology of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
The prevalence of type 1 diabetes mellitus is approximately 5%-10% of all diabetes patients, which is estimated to be approximately 10 to 20 millions in the world. Every year approximately half a million individuals below 14 years of age are diagnosed with type-1 diabetes worldwide. Undoubtedly, type-1 diabetes is the primary type of diabetes among children below 10 years of age and the incidence of type1 diabetes is increasing. The rate of prevalence of type-1 diabetes varies greatly in different parts of the world, e.g. in China the prevalence rate of type-1 diabetes is less than 0.1 per 100,000 population, whereas in Finland the prevalence of type-1 diabetes is as high as 37 per 100,000 people.
It was previously thought that type-1 diabetes is essentially a disease of the young (most commonly affect younger age group) and was distinguished from type2 diabetes, which is generally diagnosed at much older age than type-1 diabetes. But the scenario is changing and presently new-onset type 1 diabetes is diagnosed in adults.Categories: Diabetes Tags:
