Simple Tips for Your Diabetes Diet

If you are having diabetes type 2, healthy diets are very important for you to keep your diabetes under control. Even most doctor are recommended it to a type 2 diabetes patients, because the food you consume will affecting your health that’s why it very important to eating smart to managing your condition, below are the benefit you can achieve while you maintain your healthy weight.

1. Help you maintain your ideal weight and loosen your weight with healthy way.
2. Keep your sugar blood level stable.
3. It can prevent complication disease like heart attack and high blood pressure.
4. Healthy diets will keep you on track about your nutrition, even if you’re on diet for diabetes.

Simple Tips for Your Diabetes Diet
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Healthy Diabetes Diet Tips

Follow these eat to healthier tips to manage your diabetes:

To keep your balance between healthy diets and fill your nutrition needs you must choose the right type of food, there’s no single type of food that can provide all your need, that’s why you must choose from several type of food to consumed, there’s five food groups that can be combine to provide all your need:

1. Vegetables
2. Whole grains
3. Fruits
4. Low-fat or fat-free dairy products
5. Lean protein sources such as chicken, fish, and lean beef

Sometimes you still can consumed food outside of those group, but not too often, and keep remember those food are your healthy diabetes diet main based.

Create a meal plan to save your time and not making you stress in future, make a plan to eat at least three times a day, spaced between four till six hours and if you can follow your own plan you will keep your blood level in same scale.

Try to always counting your carbohydrate, because carbohydrate meal will affected to your blood sugar quicker that protein and fats even if carbo are necessary to create energy for your body for whole entire day, so basically if you eat carbohydrate too much at one time your blood sugar will rise quicker than usual. There’s plenty of food and drink which can supply carbo like whole-grains, fruit, low fat milk and yoghurt.

After you make a plan when to eat, now it’s time to planning how much you want to eat, make sure each of your food type have a right proportions, so you can keep your diabetes stay where they are, for example you can filling one half of your plate with non-starchy vegetables like a spinach, carrots, broccoli, and tomatoes. And fill one section with a high-quality starch such as a whole-grain roll, pasta, or brown rice. In the remaining section, add a lean protein such as fish, beans, eggs, or a meat substitute. Add an 8-ounce glass of low-fat or fat-free milk and a small piece of fruit to complete your meal and used same concept at breakfast.

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Gestational diabetes - Diabetes in pregnancy

What is gestational diabetes?

Glucose is a type of sugar. It contains in almost every food we eat, and produced in our liver. It used as the main source of energy for the body, and it moves from the blood into each cells with the help of the hormone insulin.

Diabetes is a disease when glucose supplies are too much in the blood than the body needs it, and it causes hyperglycemia causes the accumulation of blood. As a result, the body gets more than enough energy, so it will make the blood contain too much glucose than it should be.

Gestational diabetes is a type of diabetes which happens during pregnancy. The mother and child in the womb can get affected by glucose accumulation in the blood.

Gestational Diabetes During Pregnant
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The exact cause of diabetes during pregnancy is not known but there’s risk factors for gestational diabetes which usually came during pregnancy include:

1. Obesity and overweight - impairs the body's ability to use insulin;
2. Gestational diabetes in a previous pregnancy;
3. Multiple pregnancies;
4. Family history of diabetes;
5. Previous births with a underweight of the child;
6. Birth when mom age 25 years or more older;
7. Previous pregnancy with a stillborn birth or miscarriage
8. Too much liquid in the womb environments of the child during pregnancy
9. In addition, the production of insulin can affect hormones to help development of the child.

Diabetes mellitus in pregnancy - symptoms

This disease may cause no symptoms. If you have symptoms that include:

1. Increased urination;
2. The thirst;
3. Hunger;
4. The weakness of the;
5. Area of vaginal or urinary infection
6. Diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus

The doctor of prenatal will screening for gestational diabetes test. If you have no history of diabetes, the test will take place on 24-28 week pregnancy. The doctor will give you a special glucose solution... He then measures the level of glucose in the blood. Other tests can be used, that required some time to neither eating nor drinking liquids. If the doctor suspects he leads the increased risk of gestational diabetes or symptoms indicating in the early stages of pregnancy test.

Treatment of gestational diabetes mellitus

The goal of treatment is to bring the glucose in the blood to normal back. The Methods for the treatment of diabetes mellitus in pregnancy may include:

Diet for pregnant gestational diabetes

A dietitian will help you to develop a plan for a healthy diet. Some of the rules are:

1. Eat a balanced diet. Skip not meals;
2. Eat much fruit, vegetables, and foods rich in fiber;
3. Limit the intake of fat;
4. Avoid foods with high sugar content (for example, sweet lemonade, candy, cookies);
5. Evening meals should include protein and complex carbohydrates. (For example, beans, potatoes, corn, rice);
6. Record your food intake, these records to your doctor show, and, on request, corrections make.
7. Avoid not excessive weight gain during pregnancy, because this can lead to complications. This makes it difficult also to control diabetes.

Exercises

Physical activity would accelerate the consuming of glucose by the body. Talk to your doctor before you doing any exercise, it need some precautions, or exclude certain exercises.

Blood sugar test

Monitoring of glucose will help you to know your blood sugar levels throughout the day. Information about the level of glucose helps you when planning your meals, activities and medicines. The record results are required during the examination to the doctor.

Cure for diabetes in pregnancy

Maybe, you have to even an injection of insulin in diabetes control. For some pregnant women are encouraged to accept oral medication, such as: 

1. Metformin;
2. Glyburide. 

Postpartum glucose resets to normal then the doctor will check your blood sugar to make sure, you need no more diabetes.

Gestational diabetes - prevention

To prevent diabetes in pregnancy: 

1. Smart diet not to let the overweight;
2. Eat healthy food;
3. Do regular physical activity. Talk to your doctor about.