Diabetes is common in the elderly, poor control can lead to some complications. Treatment commonly used diet, exercise, drugs fit, in which diet is the basis of all therapy. For light diabetes, diet only to control the disease.
The basic principles of diet therapy is based on the patient's weight and activity levels, it is estimated that the total calories needed and reasonable arrangements for the daily diet. High sugar content do not eat food containing fat and foods rich in starch, with the main types of eating vegetables, grains, with a certain number of high quality protein foods such as lean meat, milk, eggs, soy products and so on. Fruits have sugar, it can eat fruit?
Ring to avoid the fruit is completely inappropriate, because the fruit contains a large number of vitamins, cellulose and minerals, which is useful for diabetics. Fruit with the sugar are glucose, fructose and sucrose, fructose in the metabolism of which do not need to participate in insulin, so diabetics control the blood sugar has been excluded from the fruit is not all.
Furthermore, the amount of sugar content of fruit mixed in, so can not be equated. Amount of food below 10 grams of green plum, watermelon, melon, coconut milk, orange, lemon, grape, peach, plum, apricot, loquat, pineapple, strawberry, sugar cane, coconut, cherries, olives, such as, diabetes can selection. 11-20 grams of sugar in the fruit are bananas, pomegranates, grapefruit, orange, apple, pear, litchi, mango, etc., you must choose carefully; more than 20 grams of jujube, red, especially the dry date, dates, dried persimmons , raisins, longans and so on, its very high sugar content, the food taboos.
A lot of fruit and vegetables can be used as food, such as tomato, cucumber, snake melon, etc..sugar content of food in the following five grams, but also rich in vitamins, can be replaced by fruit, suitable for human consumption, diabetes mellitus, may be promoting.
In addition will have to match the food, not static. 4% sugar content of watermelon, pear 12% sugar, bananas 20%. Although small watermelon sugar, but eat 500 grams, the equivalent of 100 grams of bananas, pears had 170 grams, it can not be too much food. Should also pay attention to eat fruit, do not eat immediately after a meal, or in between meals to eat before going to bed. It would be best to test the food, that is, measured two hours after eating sugar. Reduction would increase if the urine; such as fruit sugar is still high after reduction should be appropriate to reduce the amount of staple food.
