18/09/2023
How to control blood sugar and prevent complications?
In order to control blood sugar smoothly, patients must know their normal blood sugar threshold. Here are the blood sugar indexes of normal people and people with diabetes that you need to pay attention to.
Controlling blood sugar is important not only for diabetics but also for normal people. Because once the blood sugar level is high or low, it also becomes one of the causes of harm to health, even life.
Drink plenty of water every day
One of the most obvious symptoms of diabetics is frequent urination. This is the body's natural mechanism to eliminate sugar. However, it accidentally causes the patient to become dehydrated.
When dehydrated, blood concentration in diabetic patients is inevitable, while it increases the concentration of solutes, causing the elimination of toxins and sugar to be hindered. That is also the cause of coma due to increased blood osmotic pressure and ketoacidosis.
Therefore, whether you have diabetes or not, you should supplement your body with at least 1.5 to 2 liters of filtered water every day. For diabetics, the amount of water may be a little more to compensate for the amount of water excreted to increase blood flow, prevent the risk of blood clots, and improve the speed of peripheral circulation.
Especially, it prevents dangerous complications of diabetes for the cardiovascular system, kidneys and nervous system.
Add more fiber
According to research, fiber does not contribute nutrition to the body, but is a catalyst that stimulates intestinal contractions and food digestion. Fiber also plays an important role in "inhibiting" the absorption of sugar in the stomach.
Doctors recommend that every day you need to supplement your body with at least 25g of fiber. This ingredient is present in many vegetables, tubers, berries, fruits, beans, potatoes, and cereals.
Reasonable diet
Proper nutrition includes diets high in fiber and reduced saturated fat and starch found in white rice, sticky rice, wheat flour and animal fat.
For diabetics, blood sugar control always goes hand in hand with a reasonable diet that includes healthy food groups and a corresponding schedule.
It is best for patients to divide their meals into small portions to distribute the amount of calories they eat, avoiding overeating, which can cause blood sugar levels to increase.
It is necessary to maintain a schedule and not skip meals even when you do not want to eat to improve diabetes complications.
Completely eliminate white starches such as sticky rice, regular rice, bread, instant noodles and replace them with potatoes, brown rice, and coarse grains.
Do not eat canned foods or drink bottled drinks because they contain a lot of sugar, salt and fat - effective "assistants" for diabetes to form and develop.
Do not eat animal fats, but only use vegetable fats such as olive oil, canola oil, and sunflower seed oil.
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Có thể uống 1 cốc rượu vang đỏ (khoảng 150ml) vào mỗi sáng để giảm đáng kể nguy cơ tim mạch ở bệnh nhân tiểu đường tuýp 2.
Thường xuyên vận động, thể dục
Rèn luyện thể dục thể thao chính là “chìa khóa vàng” giúp bệnh nhân tiểu đường cải thiện tâm trạng, tăng cường sức khỏe tim mạch và kiểm soát đường huyết tốt hơn.
Người bệnh cần thực hiện các động tác luyện tập nhẹ nhàng, vừa sức ít nhất 30 phút mỗi ngày để tăng sức bền, thúc đẩy tiêu thụ glucose, từ đó giảm thiểu lượng đường trong máu hiệu quả.
