Many pregnant mothers told me that since the pregnancy a lot of things have been careful, originally thought that everything was arranged well, did not expect the sugar screening results show: gestational diabetes ... Now that the incidence of gestational diabetes is very high, how to effectively control sugar plagues many pregnant mothers?
First of all, we must understand why we must control sugar during pregnancy.
If high blood sugar occurs during pregnancy, when diagnosed with gestational diabetes, pregnant mothers need to actively control sugar. Because high blood sugar during pregnancy is a risk to both the baby and the mother. From the baby's point of view, it is easy to appear macrosomia, making the mother's delivery more difficult, and the baby of the macrosomia will increase the incidence of chronic diseases after adulthood, so we recommend that we must actively control sugar during pregnancy.
So how do you control sugar?
There are two main aspects: diet and exercise.
Eat a sensible diet
From the perspective of diet, pregnant mothers should eat reasonably, not only to maintain the energy and nutrient intake required during pregnancy, but also to control the rise in blood sugar after each meal. That is, when each meal is consumed, the blood sugar is stable, rather than rising rapidly and falling back rapidly. So selectively eat some food so that your blood sugar can stay flat.
However, it should be noted that dietary control cannot be too strict, because high blood sugar during pregnancy does not mean that low blood sugar will not occur. If the pregnant mother has low blood sugar is also dangerous, so the mother usually has to prepare some sugar around for emergency needs. And if food is ingested very little, it is easy to cause starvation ketosis. Ketosis also has an impact on the development of the baby's nervous system, so be sure to eat a reasonable diet.
A reasonable diet is to reduce the intake of high-sugar and high-fat foods, eat less and eat more meals; do not eat too much fruit, because the sugar in the fruit is higher, you can choose tomatoes, cucumbers and other vegetables that can be eaten raw to replace some fruits.
In addition, to correct everyone's misunderstanding, many mothers think that I have gestational diabetes, eat sugar-controlled food on the line, but at present, many sugar-controlled foods on the market are not added sugar, but the production uses fine grains, fine grains are actually sugar. Therefore, it is recommended that the staple food of sugar mothers is still based on coarse grains, because a large part of the source of sugar intake by the human body is carbs, and coarse grains can release sugar in a balanced manner, but the fine amount will be released quickly, and blood sugar will not be maintained.
A variety of exercises combined with sugar control
Pregnant mothers need the right amount of exercise to help with blood sugar control through several different exercise methods.
The first is stretching.
Stretching stimulates the speed of blood circulation throughout our body, so that what we eat can be quickly transported through the blood to the muscles that need energy supply.
The second is aerobic exercise.
Aerobic exercise can increase the body's metabolic rate, so what does metabolism mean? In fact, when not exercising, the body's ability to consume, the ability to consume sugar. Aerobic exercise can improve our ability to consume sugar, as long as you can stick to aerobic exercise, even if you don't move much for 1-2 days occasionally, your blood sugar is stable. And aerobic exercise is also very good at controlling fasting blood sugar.
The third is the impedance motion.
Resistance exercise can greatly awaken insulin sensitivity, because many pregnant mothers with gestational diabetes are actually less sensitive to insulin, that is to say, there is insulin in the body, but insulin does not work, at this time we have to wake them up and let them start working. This is the case with resistance exercise, which can awaken the ability of insulin to work very well, and then allow him to lower his sugar normally.
The fourth is weight training.
You can do some training for large muscles, because the main body of sugar consumption is muscle, mainly the muscle glycogen that sugar enters the muscle is consumed, and some of it is liver glycogen. Doing weight training can increase the volume of muscles, that is to say, the volume of muscles that need sugar increases, and the amount of sugar consumption naturally increases, which can effectively help reduce sugar.
The hypoglycemic effect combined with the above 4 exercises will be better. So be sure to remember 4 reasonable exercises, coupled with the previous dietary advice, so that sugar control during pregnancy is not a dream. We have many gestational diabetic mothers, and the last baby born is also between 6 and 6 and a half pounds of golden weight.
Go for it, Sugar Moms! You will definitely have a healthy golden weight baby too
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