How Should Diabetes Patients Eat?

• Eating small and frequent meals should not be kept too long (maximum 3-3.5 hours)

• Care should be taken not to skip meals, especially snacks should not be missed.

• White bread, rice pilaf, pasta, couscous, noodles, pastry, bagels, pastries, etc., which have a high simple carbohydrate content and glycemic index. It should not be consumed.

• As for bread, choose whole grain, whole wheat or rye bread.

• Bulgur rice or made from whole wheat flour. Pasta/noodles can be consumed in appropriate portion sizes.

• Sugar and tea sugar, jam, honey, marmalade, syrup desserts, pastries, cupcakes, cookies, confectionery, ready-made fruit with high sugar content. juices, alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, chocolate, wafers, biscuits, tahini, tahini halva, molasses, fruit pulp, etc. Prepared foods and refined products with unknown contents should not be consumed.

• Edible fruits with shells should not be peeled and daily pulp consumption should be increased.

• Fruits. Portion size should be taken into consideration.

• Meat, milk, cheese, bread, fruit and oil should not be consumed more than necessary.

• Cream, cream, Cream, mayonnaise, chocolate and fatty sauces, fatty meats, chicken skin, deep-frying and roasting should be avoided.

• Red meat 1-2 times a week, chicken 2 times, Try to consume fish 3 times and legumes 2-3 times.

• Offal (liver, brain, kidney, tripe, tongue, etc.) and soudjouk, salami, sausage and pastrami should not be consumed.

• Olive oil should be preferred instead of saturated fats (butter, margarine, tallow, lard).

• Low glycemic index (blood sugar) Foods that raise blood sugar slowly should be preferred.

 

WAYS TO REDUCE THE GLYCEMIC INDEX

 

• Add salad to your meals and ensure that your meals are balanced in terms of protein, carbohydrates and fat.

• Prefer the fruit itself instead of fruit juice.

• Prefer whole grain/rye flour instead of white flour and products made from white flour.

• Be Do not chop the food too small, consume it without turning it into puree as much as possible.

• Eat the food by chewing it slowly and thoroughly.

• The glycemic level of light products Do not choose light products as much as possible since their indexes are higher than normal products. Try to choose half-fat ones.

• Do not consume hot foods with high starch content, such as potatoes.

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