Can diabetics eat okra?
Okra is a good health food for middle-aged and elderly people and belongs to low-energy foods. Eat often to help digestion, enhance physical strength, protect the liver, stomach and intestines. Because okra is rich in trace elements such as zinc and selenium, it can enhance the body's anti-cancer and anti-cancer effects. Plus rich in vitamin C and soluble fiber, not only has a health effect on the skin, but also can make the skin white and delicate. Although there is no direct hypoglycemic effect, there are certain health effects for patients with diabetes.
What are the benefits of diabetics eating okra?
1. The okra fruit contains a viscous liquid and arabinan, galactan, rhamnose, protein, calcium oxalate, etc., often eat to help digestion, enhance physical strength, protect the liver, stomach and intestines To protect the skin.
2, it contains iron, calcium and sugar and other nutrients, has the effect of preventing anemia. It secretes mucin to protect the stomach wall, promotes the secretion of gastric juice, increases appetite and improves indigestion.
3. The rich soluble dietary fiber and vitamin C of jujube pods not only have health effects on the skin, but also can make the skin white and delicate. Dietary fiber can also easily take away human waste. It is a great nutritional diet material.
4, Okra Nenwei rich plant flavonoids, combined with various nutrients can promote the body's all-round self-conditioning, so as to ensure endocrine balance, anti-aging, anti-fatigue, increase endurance, blood circulation and other effects.
Diabetic dietary principles
1, light diet
"Qing" refers to low-fat and low-oil diets. "Light" refers to unsweetened and unsalted diets. Specifically, they do not eat sweet, eat less salt, do not eat fried, fried, shortcakes, and pigskin, chicken skin, and duck skin. Such as high fat foods. This is very useful for controlling body weight, blood sugar, blood pressure, blood lipids, and blood viscosity.
2, small meals
It is a good diet for diabetics to stabilize blood sugar levels and avoid blood sugar fluctuations, making blood sugar neither too high nor too low. Specifically, we should be able to eat “not less than 3 meals a day and eat less than 100 grams of one meal each dayâ€. If you eat more than 400 grams of staple foods per day, you should eat more meals and not eat too much. many;
3, quit smoking, limit alcohol
The alcohol contained in the wine does not contain other nutrients for heat energy only, and produces heat of about 7 kcal (294 joules) per gram of alcohol. Long-term drinking is unfavorable to the liver and can easily cause an increase in serum triglycerides. A small number of patients cause hypoglycemia after drinking on an empty stomach. Therefore, it is better to drink alcohol for safety.
4, control the total heat
The dietary control of diabetics is by no means merely staple food control as some people understand, but it also includes comprehensive control of non-staple foods, especially foods with a high calorie content, such as meat and fats, so that the daily calorie intake is maintained. At the right level to control blood sugar and body weight.
5, rational arrangement of various nutrients
For diabetics, carbohydrates, fats, and proteins are essential nutrients and must be properly distributed to avoid overeating or partial eclipses. Under the guidance of diabetes doctors and dietitians, diet plans should be tailored to individual circumstances. Carbs (such as rice, noodles, sweet potatoes, potatoes, yams, etc.) should be used as staple foods, and should eat more vegetables, fruits and vegetables, and eat milk, dairy products, meat, eggs, and nuts as needed. Eat less sugar, oil, animal fat. In general, in the diabetic diet, carbohydrates account for 55-60% of total calories, 15-20% of protein, and 25% of fat, avoiding eating less food and eating more of meat fat. tendency.
6, the variety of food should be diversified
Should eat more high dietary fiber foods, such as buckwheat, oats, beans and vegetables. This kind of diet is easy to maintain postprandial blood glucose is not too high, but also reduce weight and laxative effect.
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