Modes of Treatment of diabetes - VII

Hi Friends,

Let us discuss about some practical suggestions regarding diet:

1. Diet control is extremely important and indispensable for diabetics. No drug can compensate for or undo the harm caused by faulty and reckless diet. Diet should be planned intelligently and on the basis of scientific principles. If due to false beliefs or misleading advices from relatives and neighbours, you are observing fasts or eating monotonous diet day after day, stop such practice immediately. A diet without variety not only arouses a feeling of dislike in the mind but also causes harm to the body. Always keep in the mind that for a diabetic, diet control is not a temporary or pasing phase but a life long repsonsibility. Therefore give variety its due place in your diet. Use spices (in moderation though) because they possess no calorific value. Albeit, restric the use of salt.

2. Maintain the timings of your meals meticulously. If this is not done, it is well nigh impossible to maintain the blood sugar at normal levels all the time.

3. However busy or occupied you may be, never miss a meal. This is necessary to pervent low blood sugar.

4. Be on your alert about correct and incorrect foods even when you go to hotels, parties or visit your relatives. Always keep sachharine tablets with you.

5. While on a tour to some distant place, keep handy fruits like apple, orange or sweet lime. This will help in case symptoms of low blood sugar arise.

6. Even if you dont have an appetite, do not abstain from food during an illness. Have light food of your liking at fixed timings.

7. It is on the basis of the amount of your food intake that doctor has prescribed the dose of anti diabetic drugs. Therefore do not vary the total amount of food you take during the day.

Thanks,
Team- Knowledgeishealing