Preferential consumption of lean meat and oily fish, but strictly limit red meat and sausages.

Possibility of reducing the consumption of a low protein: 0.75 g per kg of body weight instead of 1g at least 50% from animal protein.

Some “more” useful:

Milk Thistle: American Studies confirm that silymarin from milk thistle helps to lower blood sugar.

Cinnamon: Israeli and U.S. studies (to be confirmed though) seem to show that 1 teaspoon cinnamon in a dessert (apple or otherwise) can control blood sugar.

Pomegranate Juice: Drink 50ml of pomegranate juice daily for three months reduced by a very significant risks including cardiovascular atheroma.

Pycnogenol (pine extracts): several studies confirm a reduction of over 70% of leg ulcers in diabetic patients suffering from this complication.

Exercise:

• Ideally, if possible, make 3-4 hours of physical activity spread over 5-6 days.

• At least 3/4h fast walking or biking three times a week.

• Need to breathe and relax during exercise.

• If the activity exceeds 3/4h, provide a snack after exercise.

Physical activity is modulated:

• Lower blood glucose

• Lower the voltage if necessary

• Assist in weight loss

• Helping to feel better

• Improve the function of the heart and lungs

• Improve muscle tone

Include a daily handful (5-10) walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds (unsalted and unroasted) in your diet, for fiber, good fats, minerals and phytosterols

Grains and Starches:

Consume in moderation, and choose according to their glycemic index.

Are to avoid or reduce drastically white bread, pastries, cakes (especially the trade!).

Prefer whole wheat bread or half full multi-grain sourdough (wheat alone is not ideal), brown rice or half full or basmati rice … but pulses such as lentils, chickpeas, kidney beans in very small quantities …

It is essential that the carbohydrate is distributed evenly throughout the day and breakfast is well provided for, the recall is the meal that helps regulate blood glucose throughout the day.

Fat:

Quality is more important than quantity.

A focus: walnuts, canola oil and olive oil.

A strictly limited: butter (OK a little in the morning on the bread), sauces, animal fats and meats but OK for oily fish (omega-3!)

Salt:

By limiting salt intake and eating enough potassium (vegetables), you will control blood pressure well.

Drink:

You can drink 1-2 glasses a day with your meal (never on an empty stomach!)

Be very careful, however, if high triglycerides, hypertension or liver disease.

Drinks:

Thinking about drinking enough water but also, if you like herbal teas (milk thistle, leek sprouts decoction or tea of your choice or even a little coffee or preference for green tea without sugar).

For a diabetic, the main objective is to focus on low glycemic index foods to avoid too sharp a rise in blood sugar.

In fact, the diabetic diet is similar to healthy food that everyone should follow: here you must only be more rigorous and careful.

General Tips:

* Make three balanced meals at regular times each day
* Do not snack and do not skip meals
* Have 1-2 snacks if necessary
* Lose weight if necessary
* Playing sports
* Balance carbohydrate intake and never eat a sweet food alone (unless hypoglycemia)
* Eat enough fiber

How?

Fruits and vegetables:
The fibers, anti-oxidants in fruit and vegetables are a great help.

Eat 5-7 daily servings of fruits and vegetables (3-4 servings of vegetables and 2-3 servings of fruits are optimum)

Reminder:

• a serving of vegetables is 1 small handful of salad or 1 medium tomato or 5 cherry tomatoes or zucchini 1 or 3 heaping tbsp cooked or 100g sweet potato or 125 ml of vegetable juice …

• a serving of fruit equals 1 medium fruit (apple, banana, orange, peach and citrus) or 2 small (Clementine’s, plums) or 100g (1 punned =) red fruit or grapes, 1 slice of pineapple melon or 3 tablespoons of cooked fruit.

• Bakery
• Pasta
• Rice

In general, sweets and sugar should be avoided by diabetics. Alcohol should be taken in moderation or avoided all together

A balanced diet is in addition to the regular self-monitoring blood glucose and Harnzuckerwerte, the keeping a diary and regular physical activity, the alpha and omega of a successful treatment for diabetes. The modern diabetic diet differs little from the diet of healthy individuals, ie that are not cooked specially for people with diabetes need.

With regard to energy, there are basically no different recommendations for diabetics and non-diabetics. You should be so high that a normal body weight is achieved or maintained. This is v.a. for type 2 diabetes is crucial, since the action of insulin decreases with increasing body weight. Therefore leads in most cases, a weight to an improvement or even normalization of blood glucose levels.

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Objectives of the diet in the person with diabetes
The meal plan for people with diabetes should help improve metabolic control (glucose, fats, cholesterol, uric acid ,…) thereby reducing long term complications. You should always be individualized and it is important to be a realistic eating plan for accession to be higher. In cases of type 1 diabetes mellitus in children and adolescents is essential to manage the calories needed to ensure proper growth and development, integrate insulin administered with food habits and exercise routine.

When diabetes is being treated with oral agents or insulin, it is important to properly distribute the carbohydrates throughout the day to avoid both hypo-and hyperglycemia. In all cases it is important that the diet helps to maintain normal weight or overweight correct if there is to decrease the insulin resistance associated with obesity significantly worse glycemic control.

What is the glycemic index?
When you eat a food with carbohydrates is an increase of blood glucose levels. The rate of absorption depends on the type of nutrients it contains, the amount of fiber that presents and composition of other foods in the diet. That is, if two foods have the same amount of carbohydrates can raise blood glucose differently. Therefore they would differ in their glycemic index. For example, the glycemic index of honey is 126, the white bread is 100 and the block is 53. The latest studies seem to give more importance to the total amount of carbohydrate in the diet that the glycemic index of these.

How many calories you need a person with diabetes?
In general the same as a normal person. If the weight is within normal (body mass index: 19-25 kg/m2) there are no special calorie recommendations. It must calculate the amount of calories needed according to weight, age, sex and physical activity.

When there is excess weight (body mass index> 25 kg/m2) is necessary to reduce the number of kilocalories per day (250-500) and start the practice of regular aerobic exercise to promote a negative caloric balance in order to reduce the insulin resistance and improve metabolic control.