Diet Cure: How Should a Diabetes Patient Care for His/Her Body?

At times, diabetes develops during pregnancy. This is commonly prevalent among women having a family history of diabetes. It may occur temporarily and cease to exist after confinement. Such patients are always susceptible to develop the disease during stressful conditions later in life. Mild or borderline cases of diabetes during pregnancy needs to be controlled. Any abnormality of blood sugar level affects the foetus and increases the chances of congenital malformations.

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Diet Cure: What is the Meal Plan for Diabetes?

What is Meal Plan?

It really means to distribute various food items which are ideal for you so that its calorific value as well as its nutrient contents are incorporated as a means to satisfy your needs, taste, day to day working and cooking style. It should be such that it matches the treatment given to you without causing much fluctuation of blood sugar level.

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Diet Cure: Dietary Fibers for Diabetes

Fibre in nutrition has been an area of increasing interest for study by nutritionists all over the world. Dietary fibre, unavailable carbohydrates or roughage are the different terms, that refers to the total amount of naturally occurring material in food, mainly of plant origin, that is not digested. Dietary fibre is widely recognised to have a beneficial effect in patients with NIDDM.

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Diet Cure: Points to be Remembered in Diabetes Diet

Beverages

Varied beverages are available all over the world. Diabetics need to exercise discrimination in sampling them.

Tea, cocoa and coffee, if taken without sugar, can be both healthy and refreshing.

Beverages based on fruits include fruit juices, squashes and synthetic soft drinks which are rich in empty calories. A soft drink under the commercial brand of ‘Cola Lite’ and ‘Diet Cola’ are specially formulated for diabetics. A bottle of 200 ml contains 40 calories.

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Diet Cure: Protein in Diabetes Diet

In addition to carbohydrate and fat, protein also contributes to the calorie intake. It is one of the most important constituents of the diet. Its primary function is to maintain and promote growth.

The high protein prescriptions to protect the diabetics against infections and diseases was found to cause stress on liver and excretion of its end-products like urea/ uric acid from the kidneys. The protein allowance is now reduced to moderate levels from mixed sources to delay the onset of nephropathy or other manifestations of atherosclerosis which are on the rise in diabetic patients.

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Diet Cure: Diet for a Diabetic Child

Although the basic principles of diet in diabetic patients remains the same, there are some special situations which require some modification.

Diabetic children are usually, underweight hence require extra calories to make up the weight loss. Initially, the child may be sick hence the food intake has to be gradually increased and evenly divided as small but frequent meals. The food should be easily digestible and nutritious.

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Diet Cure: Insulin Therapy for Diabetes

The goal for managing an IDDM patient is to ensure a physically and mentally healthy, and a socially productive individual. A diabetic child or youth has a right to enjoy life as much as a non-diabetic child and to be as much physically and mentally competent as others. Socially, the diabetic and his/her family need to make adjustments to each other. The family should be supportive but not overprotective. However, there should not be any rejection.

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Diet Cure: Diabetes Mellitus and Exercises

Physical activity has important physiological and psychological benefits for all people. An exercise programme has a key role in the management of diabetes. It helps in utilisation of sugar by the body without additional requirement of insulin. Thus, it reduces the dose of insulin to be taken. Many patients report greater ease in maintaining glucose control when their lifestyle includes consistent and planned exercise. However, inappropriate exercises can be very hazardous. Attention must be paid to minimising potential exercise complications.

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