Millet is a common food in life, mostly used to cook porridge, simple cooking to make millet porridge can provide nutrients, and ordinary rice porridge is different, millet porridge appearance is light yellow, looks very appetizing. However, many people worry that drinking millet porridge will cause blood sugar to rise, which is not conducive to diabetes control. Is drinking millet porridge a glycemic or hypoglycemic one? Let's find out.
Drinking millet porridge often usually provides rich energy, there is the possibility of blood sugar elevation, generally after drinking millet porridge does not take long to increase blood sugar tendency, can not be lowered by drinking millet porridge, the nutrition of millet porridge itself can not make blood sugar drop, so people with diabetes do not think that drinking millet porridge can improve the condition, if you drink often, the amount of one-time drinking, the starch and carbohydrates in it are too much to provide, blood sugar may rise, you also need to control the intake of millet porridge, but also according to your own blood sugar changes to judge whether you can drink millet porridge。
Can diabetics drink millet porridge?
Whether diabetic patients can drink millet porridge depends on their own condition, considering the body's adaptation, if you drink a small amount when the condition is mild, it is not enough to affect the disease, and it will not cause a rapid spike in blood sugar in a short period of time. However, if the diabetes has been relatively serious, and even various complications have occurred, millet porridge or other porridge should be drunk less, the reason why it is not recommended is because the porridge is digested quickly, and it doesn't take long to drink the porridge and you are hungry, plus these porridges are rich in starch and carbohydrates, which may be converted into energy and cause blood sugar to fluctuate in a short period of time, so you should stay away from millet porridge when the condition is more serious.
How to control blood sugar?
1. Correct medication
In addition to grasping their own condition, understanding the severity and type of diabetes, diabetic patients should also cooperate with treatment, which generally involves the taking of hypoglycemic drugs and insulin injection. Although there is currently no specific drug that can cure diabetes in a short period of time, it can be controlled with the right medication. Some people do not pay attention to the problem, do not respond to the disease properly, do not cooperate with the treatment, and the disease may get out of control.
2. Eat cautiously
Master the correct diet, which foods can be eaten, which foods should be avoided, those foods that will quickly raise blood sugar should be avoided as much as possible, and high-fat foods, fried foods, and high-starch foods should be avoided as much as possible except for sweets. In addition, don't eat supper often, overeat, you should slow down the pace of eating, and you should eat less delicate foods, these dietary precautions can be understood, in order to stabilize blood sugar.
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