Diet Guidelines for Diabetes

**mikaela** · 02-04-2010, 03:24 AM

Having diabetes is difficult and you have to strictly follow the diet recommendation of the doctor to treat and remove the actual cause of the disease. The patient should be a strict lacto-vegetarian and take a low calorie, low fat, alkaline diet of high quality natural fruits. Fruits, nuts and vegetables, whole meal bread and dairy products form a good diet for the diabetic. These foods are best eaten in as dry a condition as possible to ensure thorough salivation during the first part of the process of digestion.

The moment wakeup, drink a glass of lukewarm water with freshly squeezed lemon juice.
For breakfast, eat any fresh fruit, fresh milk, and whole meal bread with butter. Avoid soaked-prunes and bananas.
For lunch, eat highly cooked or steamed vegetables like tomatoes, cauliflower, spinach, cabbage, asparagus and mushroom, turnip, two or three whole wheat chappatis according to appetite.
In mid-afternoon, you can enjoy a glass of fresh fruit juice
For dinner, a large bowl of salad made up of raw vegetables in season. You can follow it with a hot course and a fresh home made cottage cheese if you want.
At bed time, you can drink a glass of milk.

Avoiding overeating and is advised to take four to five small meals a day instead of three full meals.

**viktoria** · 02-04-2010, 03:41 AM

It really is difficult to have diabetes because a patients eating lifestyle should be changed. The doctor's recommended diet plan and prescribed medication should be strictly followed to treat this disease. Otherwise the disease will consume the body and cause more harmful health conditions. With self control and commitment to treat the disease, the patient can fight this condition and live a normal life.

**kathy** · 02-04-2010, 03:46 AM

The cooked starchy foods should be avoided because in the process of cooking the cellulose envelops of the starch granules burst making it easily absorbed by the body. The excess starch that is absorbed by the body has to be flushed out by our kidney and appears sugar in the urine. With raw starchy foods however, the saliva and digestive juices in the small intestine regulate the amount required into sugar for the body's needs, and the unused and undigested of raw starchy foods does not become harmful to the body as it is not readily ferment.

**sasa** · 02-04-2010, 04:16 AM

Some of the foods that are also beneficial are celery, string beans, onion, garlic, and cucumber. The string bean pod is a a natural alternative for insulin and very helpful in diabetes. What you may not know is that a cup of string bean tea is equal to one unit of insulin. Cucumbers contain a hormone that is needed by the cells of the pancreas for producing insulin. And onion and garlic have proved beneficial in lowering blood sugar in diabetes.

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