Diabetic diet – menu and recipes in type 1 and 2 diabetes

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A diabetic diet is a special form of nutrition that is an important element in the prevention of diabetes. People diagnosed with diabetes should consult their diet plan with a doctor – this way they can avoid dangerous spikes in blood glucose levels and thus reduce the risk of diabetic complications.

1. The diagnosis of diabetes requires a drastic change in eating habits, and it may take some time to get used to them.
2. It is worth remembering a few rules that will help with this
3. Find out what diabetes can eat and what they should avoid
4. You can find more such stories on the TvoiLokony home page

Diabetic diet and medications

Proper treatment of diabetes should primarily consist in changing the diet and then selecting appropriate medications.

Until the discovery of insulin in 1921, diet was actually the only treatment for diabetes. So it is good when the patient first sets up a menu and then selects drugs for it. Arranging a well-balanced diet for a diabetic is the basis of treatment, and in cases of early detection, it may even replace pharmacological therapy for some time – says Ewa Ceborska, a dietitian from the Food & Diet clinic.

In the treatment of diabetes, diet is crucial, and all the information you need about changes in your diet can be obtained by consulting your diabetologist. You can now make a visit in the form of a convenient remote consultation via the halodoctor.pl portal.

Types of diabetic diets

Due to the type of diabetes, each case is different. The menu for people with type I and type II diabetes is similar. For type I, you should stick to a proper diet.

Type I diabetes

Type I diabetes most often affects young people – it occurs when the cells responsible for the production of insulin are destroyed. The disease is most often genetically determined.

Do you have symptoms of type I diabetes? Check stool zonulin levels. Thanks to this, it will be possible to assess the functioning of the intestinal barrier. Mail order research is available on Medonet Market.

Type II diabetes

Type II diabetes affects mainly people over 40, who suffer from overweight and hypertension. The pancreas produces insulin, but the tissues do not respond to it. We acquire this type of diabetes with kilograms, which is why it is so important to change the patient’s diet.

Characteristics of a diabetic diet

The norm in diabetic diets is to consume from five to seven meals a day at predetermined times of the day – we eat less, but more often. It is also important to maintain a balance in the intake of individual nutrients, e.g. carbohydrates.

During the visit, the diabetologist should show us what products we should eat, in what portions and at what times. The most important, however, is the caloric discipline of meals and the value of the glycemic index. Let’s not forget about B vitamins, biotin, folic acid, vitamins C and E and minerals:

1. magnesium,
2. zinc,
3. chromie.
4. selenie.

People with diabetes must use a blood glucose meter every day to check their blood sugar regularly. The iHealth company offers the iHealth Gluco blood glucose meter, which has the function of remembering the test results and the attached set with strips, lancets and lancing device, which allow you to perform the test.

Suddenly switching to such a diet can be difficult, especially for people who are used to eating sweets. – In this case, you can sweeten with a sweetener, not sucrose, add oat bran to the dough or replace flour with white wholemeal flour – advises Ewa Ceborska.

Meet the Intenson healthy sugar substitutes that you can buy on Medonet Market:

1. erythritol,
2. stewia,
3. maltitol,
4. xylitol / Danisco xylitol,
5. bio agave sugar.

– It happens that patients give up a product when they see that it contains a lot of carbohydrates. Meanwhile, you should distinguish between simple and complex carbohydrates. Diabetics should beware of these simple ones. Complex are absorbed much slower and not so dangerous, of course in reasonable amounts – summarizes Ewa Ceborska.

The diabetic diet does not have to be boring, but you have to think of it as a whole and use foods from five main groups: starchy foods, fruits and vegetables, meat, poultry and fish. To be sure that the diet is properly balanced, it is worth using the help of a professional.

Dandelion leaf, which can be brewed as a tea, helps to regulate blood sugar levels.

A diabetic diet can be supplemented with supplementation and drinking herbal teas. At Medonet Market you can buy a Diabetes Kit, which includes:

1. ecological tea recommended for diabetes,
2. dietary supplement for diabetics in capsules,
3. white mulberry leaf tea.

Sample menu for five days for diabetics

1 day of a diabetic diet

1. Breakfast: two sandwiches of wholemeal rye bread, thinly spread with butter (10 g), with sirloin e.g. Sopot (40 g), lettuce (20 g) and tomato (70 g), orange (130 g), green tea
2. 150nd breakfast: yogurt (50 g) combined with oatmeal (20 g), hazelnuts (100 g) and peach (XNUMX g)
3. Lunch: dill soup (350 g), then foil baked cod with herbs (180 g) with brown rice (80 g), boiled broccoli (250 g), olive oil (10 g)
4. Afternoon tea: tomato juice (300 g)
5. Dinner: light cottage cheese (150 g) served with radish, chives and cucumber.

2 day of a diabetic diet

1. Breakfast: two sandwiches of wholemeal bread (70 g), thinly spread with butter (10 g), for which you can use turkey ham (40 g), lettuce (20 g), tomato (50 g), pepper (80 g), except of this nectarine (100 g) and red tea
2. 150nd breakfast: raspberries (300 g) with kefir (XNUMX g) – it can be combined
3. Lunch: tomato cream soup (350 g) then lean veal (150 g) stewed with celery (50 g), chicory (40 g), paprika (80 g), mushrooms (60 g) and tomatoes (60 g) all drizzled with olive oil (10 g), plus two boiled potatoes (150 g)
4. Afternoon tea: cottage cheese with chives (200 g) and mung bean sprouts (20 g) plus grapefruit (170 g)
5. Dinner: omelette with spinach (160 g) and garlic with carrot and apple salad (80 g)

3 day of a diabetic diet

1. Breakfast: two slices of pumpernickel bread (90 g), spread with white cheese (100 g), radish (30 g), you can drink coffee with milk 1,5%, kiwi (100 g)
2. 100nd breakfast: pear (1,5 g) with yoghurt 250% (50 g) and muesli (XNUMX g)
3. Lunch: red borsch (350 g) skinless chicken breast meat (180 g) stewed with zucchini (100 g) and tomatoes (250 g) plus olive oil (10 g), parsley, dill instead of potatoes buckwheat groats (80 g).
4. Afternoon tea: vegetable juice (300 g)
5. Dinner: tuna in its own sauce (150 g), served with lettuce (40 g), corn (30 g), tomato (50 g)

4 day of a diabetic diet

1. Breakfast: hard-boiled egg (100 g) with a wholemeal roll with grains (70 g) smeared with butter (10 g), plus radish (30 g), cucumber (50 g), pear (150 g) and green tea
2. 120nd breakfast: Chinese cabbage, pepper and small-salt cucumber salad (XNUMX g)
3. Lunch: mushroom soup (350 g) then cod meatballs (120 g) served with barley groats (80 g), cauliflower (80 g) and cucumber salad with yoghurt (60 g)
4. Afternoon tea: cottage cheese 3% (150 g) with sunflower seeds (20 g), pumpkin seeds (20 g) and nectarine (100 g)
5. Dinner: treatment (400 g), which includes: chicken breast (130 g), pepper (45 g), zucchini (45 g), eggplant (45 g), mushrooms (45 g), tomatoes (45 g), celery (45 g)

5 day of a diabetic diet

1. Breakfast: two sandwiches of whole grain bread (60 g) served with e.g. natural cheese (100 g), plus cucumber (40 g), chives, pepper (80 g) and an apple (100 g)
2. 150nd breakfast: American blueberries (150 g) with yoghurt (XNUMX g)
3. Lunch: cauliflower soup (350 g) then paprika stuffed with paprika (400 g), chicken breast (100 g), mushrooms (50 g), zucchini (40 g), onion (20 g), celery (50 g) plus sauerkraut (120 g) and olive oil (15 g)
4. Afternoon tea: fresh pineapple salad (50 g), watermelon (50 g), orange (50 g)
5. Dinner: risotto with poultry meat and vegetables (200 g)

To reduce blood sugar levels, it is important to drink the right herbs regularly. You can find them, for example, in Cukier – a mixture of herbs available at an attractive price on Medonet Market. We also recommend FOR DIABETICS – herbal set, which includes:

1. Fix DIABETEX tea with mulberry,
2. MORINGA capsules,
3. DIABETOPOL tincture.

Diabetes diet – sample recipes

Delicious breakfast – omelette

1. Ingredients: 2 eggs (whole); 3 larger mushrooms; 2 thin slices of cooked turkey ham; 2 flat tablespoons of rice or spelled flour; a couple of spoons of milk; parsley; spices (standard salt and wash, you can add basil), Extra Vergine olive oil, on which we will fry the omelette.
2. Preparation of the omelette: separate the yolks from the whites, mix the yolks with flour, ham (previously chopped) and mushrooms – season to taste. Beat egg whites and add gently to the egg mass – mix. Pour it all over a well-heated pan.

Values ​​for this dish

1. Energy: 415 kcal
2. Protein: 27g
3. Carbohydrates: 40g
4. Fat: 15g

Lunch – porridge with chicken stew

1. Ingredients: 100 g turkey breast fillet (skinless); 35 g of buckwheat or millet (dry); tomato; half a small zucchini; five mushrooms; 2 tablespoons of oat or spelled bran, olive oil or rapeseed oil (a teaspoon) for frying, favorite spices and greens.
2. Preparation: the turkey should be cut into thin strips and seasoned to taste with your favorite spices, the whole should be stewed without fat, with the addition of water. Then, when the meat is tender, add the pieces of vegetables and continue to stew. Finally, add the bran, greens, and olive oil – season to taste.

Values ​​for this dish

1. Energia: 550kcal
2. Protein: 35g
3. Carbohydrates: 50g
4. Fat: 20g

Dinner – sandwiches with salad and yoghurt

1. Salad: 100 g of lettuce, a small tomato, 4 radishes, basil (mix everything together).
2. Sandwiches: 2 slices of crispy bread, e.g. wasa, plus two slices of lean meat, e.g. turkey, and two leaves of lettuce.
3. Small yoghurt (150 g): you can add seasonal fruit as well as oatmeal, spelled or millet.

Values ​​for this dinner

1. Energia: 295kcal
2. Protein: 12g
3. Carbohydrates: 42g
4. Fat: 8g

Consultation: mgr inż. Ewa Ceborska, specialist dietitian from the Food & Diet clinic in Warsaw, ul. Bronikowskiego 2, phone / fax 0 22 402 27 01, www.food-diet.pl