Uncle Wang just found out that diabetes did not last long, so he still knows half of the dietary secrets of sugar friends. He has always loved to drink millet porridge, drink a bowl every morning, and feel very comfortable. But a few days ago, he heard a sugar friend say that if you have diabetes, you can't touch millet, and millet porridge can't drink anymore, because it will make blood sugar rub up. Uncle Wang was also half-convinced, and came back to find a lot of books, and also went to the Internet to find some articles.
Although there are also articles saying that diabetes can not drink millet porridge, he also saw an article saying that millet not only does not raise blood sugar, but also lowers blood sugar. Uncle Wang was overwhelmed. Can this millet porridge be drunk in the end?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" > is xiaomi raising or lowering blood sugar? </h1>
1. Millet raises blood sugar points.
We usually say that millet will raise blood sugar, mainly referring to millet porridge. Because millet itself belongs to the grain, although it is a coarse grain, it is also rich in starch, and the sugar-raising capacity is relatively strong. Moreover, people usually eat millet into porridge, and it will be boiled very badly, so that coarse grains are also "fine grains".
Rice and white noodles are fine grains because they are all finished, and the processing is not limited to crushing, grinding, but also boiling, steaming and so on. Take millet, after adding water to boil porridge, it will make the starch contained in it gelatinized, the longer it stays up, the more serious the gelatinization, and the stronger the sugar-rising ability. Therefore, millet porridge is indeed a type of food with a lot of sugar-rising capacity.
Not only that, many people drink millet porridge and like to put brown sugar, which is even worse. There was once a patient who drank millet porridge mixed with brown sugar for a long time, resulting in blood sugar soaring from 5.6mmol/L to 25.6mmol/L, which almost caused a catastrophe. It can be said that it is a lesson of blood.
2. Xiaomi lowers blood sugar point of view.
Regarding the claim that millet lowers blood sugar, there was just a new study some time ago, which once again proved this conclusion. Studies have shown that millet can control blood sugar better than other cereals. Long-term consumption of millet has a positive significance for reducing fasting blood glucose and glycosylated hemoglobin. Therefore, in the prevention and treatment of diabetes, millet has a good effect.
Previous studies have also pointed out that millet is rich in dietary fiber, as well as the formation of resistant starch, which helps to delay the digestion and absorption of starch and help control blood sugar. Therefore, millet is more suitable as a staple food for diabetic patients than rice and wheat.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="46" > so should xiaomi eat it? </h1>
Sure, you can eat it, but only if you eat it right! If they are like the patients who drink millet porridge with brown sugar above, this way of eating is definitely not OK. Exactly how to eat, look at the experiment of a sugar friend.
Experiment 1: Drink millet porridge.
Patient Lao Wang, suffering from diabetes for 7 years. He took his fasting blood sugar in the morning, which turned out to be 6.8mmol/L, then drank a bowl of millet porridge with two eggs. As a result, half an hour after drinking porridge, blood sugar rose to 9.6mmol/L, and an hour later rose to 10.1mmol/L. That is to say, the blood sugar fluctuated by 3.3mmol/L within an hour, in addition to the influence of eggs, the main increase in blood sugar should be millet porridge. This is not a small fluctuation.
Experiment 2: Millet with vegetables.
Lao Wang measured fasting blood glucose before eating at noon, and the result was 7.0mmol/L, and then began to eat. He first ate some vegetables, mainly cauliflower and beans, and then ate a small bowl of small rice, pure dry rice, without adding anything else. Half an hour after eating, the blood glucose was measured, and the result was 7.8mmol/L, and the blood glucose was 8.1mmol/L an hour later. In other words, after eating a meal, the blood glucose fluctuation is only 1.1mmol/L, which is a very ideal result.
The answer is obvious. Diabetics can eat millet, and millet is still a type of staple food that is more suitable for sugar friends, as long as it is eaten correctly, it is good for managing blood sugar.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="47" > so how can diabetics eat millet correctly? </h1>
1. Millet is preferred. Compared with millet porridge, the sugar-raising ability of millet rice is weaker, and the drier the rice, the better, when cooking rice, you should put less water and cook less for a while, so that the dry rice that comes out is easier to control the blood sugar after the meal.
2. Drink less millet porridge. Sugar friends want to drink millet porridge, it is not absolutely impossible, but we must control drinking less, each time a small bowl, but also to reduce the intake of other staple foods in equal amounts. Before drinking millet porridge, it is best to eat some vegetables, poultry, fish, etc., to increase satiety and help drink less porridge. In addition, when cooking millet porridge, do not add brown sugar, sugar and other foods with fast sugar, you can add some vegetables, oats, buckwheat and other foods with slow sugar. Finally, if necessary, medication can be adjusted to help control postprandial blood sugar.