Diabetes patients have indeed found some suitable hypoglycemic methods through their own practice, which is a good thing. However, the two behaviors introduced in this article seem to help lower blood sugar, but in fact they seriously overdraw your health and the gains outweigh the gains.
Behavior 1. To lower blood sugar, skip or eat less staple food
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After eating less staple food, it seems that postprandial blood sugar has indeed improved. But after persisting for a period of time, people will become weak, poor sleep quality, emotional anxiety and tension, severe hair loss, dark yellow complexion, and female friends may have menstrual disorders, which will seriously overdraw their health.
Worry about high blood sugar after eating staple food, you can solve it in the following two ways: ① Use drugs that can lower postprandial blood sugar; ② Increase postprandial blood sugar sports.
Scientific attitude towards the correct treatment of staple food: Staple food is the main source of daily energy, and diabetic patients Be sure to eat the staple food. It is recommended to match the thickness (coarse grains account for 1/3), and eat the staple food of the size of your fist at each meal.
Behavior 2. To lower blood sugar, drink some wine
Half right and half wrong!
Yes: Drinking alcohol does lower blood sugar.
False: This drop in blood sugar is temporary, until the “deceiving” effect of alcohol on the body wears off , The fat converted by alcohol and other energy substances such as meat and fat consumed by drinking and eating will further increase blood sugar, causing blood sugar to rebound, and the fluctuations are large and difficult to control.
If you drink a lot, it will also increase the effects of insulin and hypoglycemic drugs, causing severe hypoglycemia and even death.
You might say that if you have low blood sugar, just eat something, no big deal. As everyone knows, in alcoholic hypoglycemia, the patient does not have symptoms such as hunger, sweating, etc., and directly manifests as symptoms of the nervous system, such as disturbance of consciousness, drowsiness or even coma, and loses the opportunity to save himself.
Scientific attitudes towards drinking: Diabetes patients should not expect to drink alcohol to lower blood sugar, if Drinking must be limited.
Do not drink more than 15 grams of alcohol per day for women and 25 grams for men.
- 15g of alcohol is equivalent to: 450ml of beer, 150ml of red wine or 50ml of low-alcohol liquor; span>
- 25g of alcohol is equivalent to: 750ml of beer, 250ml of red wine or 80ml of low alcohol liquor. No more than 2 times a week.
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Author: zfy