When it comes to blood sugar, many "sugar friends" will fidget. Yes, with the development of society, the prevalence of diabetes has also begun to increase year by year, and some data show that the prevalence of diabetes in China has risen to 11.2%. The total number of people with diabetes exceeds 100 million, and the number of people suffering from diabetes also ranks first in the world. It seems that the disease of diabetes is still very powerful, and it is constantly eroding human beings with its claws.
Aunt Zhang has often had symptoms such as dizziness and weakness recently, and often looked at the wrong time on the clock, originally she was going to go to the kindergarten at four o'clock to pick up her little granddaughter from school, and she thought that the time was still early, and waited until five o'clock to pick up, and as a result, there was only one child left in the kindergarten.
This is not, two days ago, Aunt Zhang was sent to the hospital by her daughter for examination, only to find that there was a problem with the retina, and most of the aunt Zhang who had diabetes was caused by uncontrolled blood sugar. Sure enough, the test results came out and found that the blood sugar was elevated, affecting the health of the retina. I asked Aunt Zhang to know her old problems, why not control it, did not continue to take antidiabetic drugs? Aunt Zhang swallowed and vomited for a while, saying that not long ago, their friends in the elderly club told her that eating taro can lower blood sugar, and taro is still natural insulin. Aunt Zhang thought to herself, it is a three-point poison of medicine, and it is really good that food supplements can solve the blood sugar problem. Decisively threw away the drug.
Can taro really act as insulin? Seeing the current situation of Aunt Zhang, we should also have the answer in our hearts. Taro is rich in many nutrients, and eating taro regularly can indeed promote good health. To mislead people into thinking that taro is natural insulin, it may be that the nutritional content of taro itself is misleading, such as the following:
1, the sugar rise rate is slow
There is also a lot of starch in taro, which can also be used as a staple food. Staple food is a part of the food that cannot be missing on weekdays, including diabetics can not refuse staple food. However, we can choose in terms of staple foods, compared with the fine grains we often eat, such as rice, white noodles, etc., the choice of coarse grains such as taro can slow down the blood sugar rate. The main reason is that taro in addition to containing starch and rich dietary fiber, dietary fiber is not easy to digest, into the body will slow down the digestion of the body, slow down the absorption of glucose, to a certain extent, let the blood sugar rise rate slow down, can also control excessive rise in blood sugar.
Coarse grains compared to fine grains, glycemic index is low, and like taro such as coarse grains also have a strong sense of satiety, for diabetic patients, the choice of taro a type of coarse grains instead of fine grains, to control blood sugar has a certain auxiliary effect. Coarse grains that have similar functions to taro also include sweet potatoes, potatoes and so on. Therefore, diabetics can choose more coarse grains to eat. But do not be greedy, once you eat too much, it is not only difficult to digest, but also affects blood sugar.
2, "high potassium king" --- taro
Taro is also rich in potassium, sufficient potassium can protect the stability of blood sugar for diabetics, help promote protein metabolism, diabetics often lose a lot of potassium due to pathological reasons, that is, it is necessary to supplement potassium for the body. The potassium content in taro is very high, and diabetics can eat more potatoes such as taro. Potato foods are mostly rich in potassium and are recommended.
In addition, if you want to help the body replenish potassium, many fruits and vegetables can also help, such as the well-known bananas, spinach, hollow cabbage, amaranth and so on.
3. Rich in vitamins
There are also many vitamins, plant mucin, etc. in taro, these nutrients can provide diabetics with improved immunity, generate immune proteins in the body, help patients improve the body's immune resistance, and to a certain extent, can also improve the state of the disease.
In this way, taro has made people mistaken for natural insulin, and Li Wenhui, deputy chief physician of the Department of Endocrinology of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, has made it clear that all foods are not suitable for talking about "hypoglycemic reduction". Some foods do have some credit for controlling blood sugar, but they cannot be exaggerated to say that this food has the name of "natural insulin".
If you don't use such exaggerated words to describe these foods, you can also think that some foods can indeed play a role in controlling blood sugar in some people, but this cannot absolutely say that foods like taro can completely control blood sugar. And everyone's physique is different, it may be effective to control blood sugar in some people, and there may be different results in you. Therefore, you must not rely on food alone to control blood sugar like Aunt Zhang.
To effectively control blood sugar, a scientific approach should be used:
First, choose a reasonable diet, coarse grains are good, but also to control the amount of consumption, with a variety of nutrients together, so that nutrition is healthy and reasonable balance. Control calories, eat less foods high in fat, and increase protein supplementation.
Second, increase exercise consumption. Regular exercise promotes the consumption and metabolism of nutrients in the body, which is conducive to the stabilization of blood sugar.
Third, if the diet is not controlled, diabetics also need drugs to help, according to the actual situation of the body, must not be their own opinion, control is not up to standard, will also endanger the body.
Controlling blood sugar and relying on diet is necessary, but relying entirely on diet is an unwise choice, focusing on the body, and it is necessary to choose a scientific method!