Diabetes or High blood sugar is a chronic disease and if left untreated can lead to serious damage to our nerves and blood vessels. Diabetes is one of the leading cause of kidney failure. It may also cause damage to your retina which could lead to loss of vision. Diabetic people also have higher risk of blood pressure, high cholesterol, high triglycerides, fatty liver and stroke.
The latest report of WHO indicates that, 77 million people in India are diabetic and 25 million people are pre-diabetic.
Initially medicines seem to regulate blood sugar but over the time our body stops responding it and you need to increase the dose of medicines. By gradually increasing the medicines, a time comes when our body stops responding to the medicines at all. This is the time when doctor may suggest you to take insulin injections. This means that one mistake of yours and relying only on medicine to manage your blood sugar may increase your life expectancy but is not at all successful in improving the quality of life.
Therefore, Our current thinking about treating high blood sugar is misguided, and even dangerous.
How
Sakshi Reduce her blood sugar from 350 -125mg/dl
Sakshi, a 45-year-old woman, was taking metformin 1000 mg twice a day, with other diabetic, cholesterol and high blood pressure medications. Even so, she used to have extremely high blood sugar (above 300mg/dl) and blood pressure both. She was then directed to us by her doctor, who advised her that increasing dose of medicine further is not a good idea.
By making some positive changes in her diet and lifestyle, she was successfully able to manage her blood sugar in just one month. Her medication dosage has also been significantly reduced and she is now leading a healthy life.
She walks for one hour every day and don’t eat anything after 5 PM. She has included dark-colored fruits and vegetables, almonds, pulses, legumes, curd and buttermilk in her diet and no longer take processed or ultra-processed food at all.
Medications for diabetes are said to have no negative side effects. However, relying solely on medication has a lot of drawbacks.
1. If you don't reduce your excess weight, you run the risk of developing other unhealthy health conditions like high bloodpressure, elevated triglycerides, high cholesterol, and fatty liver.
2. Although diabetes medications may be safe with little or no side effects, but the medications taken for these diseases have many side effects and the biggest side effect is unhealthy life and organ damage.
3. This leads to loss of health and money both.
And that is why it is very important that to understand the seriousness of diabetes. Paying attention to our own health is very essential if we want to prevent the next generation from being born with diabetes and health is achieved through healthy diet. Here we will discuss five foods that you should eat or not if you are diabetic:
1. Sugar and other form of sweetener
Avoid taking sugar in any form, be it brown sugar, white sugar, jaggery or mishri. All these things can affect your blood sugar.
2. Packed food containing high fructose corn syrup (HFCS)
High fructose corn syrup is a common sweetener that can be found in a variety of foods including packed fruit juices and cola drinks. It is one of the primary causes of fatty liver, elevated triglycerides, PCOS, and insulin resistance. So, you should definately stay away from packed fruit juices and cola drinks.
3. Refined food like suji and maida
Stay away from baked food items and other food items prepared with suji and maida like rusk, biscuits, bread, namkeen, upma, halwa, idli etc. They contain very little fiber and their nutritional value is also very low. That is why consuming them can raise your blood sugar very quickly.
4. Fruits and Dry fruits
5. Most of us believe that because mango, banana, apple, and watermelon are all sweet fruits, we cannot eat them if we have diabetes. However, it's important to understand that these fruits don't spike your blood sugar because they also contain fiber in addition to sweetness. You can definitely have fresh fruits, but you should stay away from dry fruits like raisins, dried figs, dried apricots etc.
5. Rice
You should consume less white rice if you have diabetes because it contains very little fiber. However, you can always
have rice with Chholey or Rajmha because rajma and chholey has a very high
fiber content. In addition, you have the option of eating brown rice or Samak
rice.
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