Six cognitive errors of diabetes

A misunderstanding: I am still young and will not have diabetes

The rhythm of modern life, tension, work pressure, eating habits is the tendency of Western high-fat, high protein, high-calorie food, sitting with much less movement, irregular diet, so many people now more than 40-year-old was diagnosed on for diabetes.

Misunderstanding 2: Small symptoms do not care, diabetes emerged

Can not be typical of a small number of more than 3 to determine whether they had diabetes, different types, different stages of severity of diabetes may have different symptoms such as itchy skin, and so could not spot the signs of diabetes.

Misunderstanding three: eat more vegetarian-friendly cereals

More coarse grains contain dietary fiber, have hypoglycemic, lipid-lowering, laxative effect, but eating too much roughage, it is possible to increase the burden and impact of gastrointestinal absorption of nutrients, causing malnutrition.

Misunderstanding four: sugar-free food does not affect blood sugar

The so-called sugar-free foods, generally refers to non-sugar or other sweeteners such as xylitol and other alternative foods, these sweeteners are not sugar or low card calorie sugar production. However, sugar-free cookies, sugar-free bread and other food remains are to do will stop these foods into glucose in the body caused by elevated blood sugar. Therefore, such foods should still be factored into the framework of total calorie consumption is not excessive.

Misunderstanding Five: diet therapy is the hunger

Many people believe that the less food and more effective control of the disease. In fact as a result of insufficient food intake, total calories can not meet the needs of metabolism caused by body fat, excessive protein decomposition, the body weight loss, malnutrition, resulting in low blood sugar, or even starvation of ketosis.

Six errors: do not use the drug on the control diet

Some patients, an increase of that diet, eat more points on the hypoglycemic agents can be offset to eat more food, in fact, this is wrong. If overeating would increase the burden on the pancreas, due to drug overdose side effects of drugs will increase the probability of occurrence; grain rice does not enter, the situation will hypoglycemia is not conducive to disease control.