1. Eat starch properly
Sticky rice, banh chung and vermicelli are foods that contain a lot of starch and have a high glycemic index. Combined with a reasonable diet, adding lots of green vegetables and protein will help the starch absorb more slowly, reducing the increase in blood sugar.
2. Need to know how to convert food
Diabetics need to know how to convert food intake appropriately to avoid eating too much starch in the same meal, causing high blood sugar. For example, if eating rice with potato soup (potatoes, taro, etc.), patients need to note that when eating 100 grams of potatoes (1 medium tuber), they need to reduce the amount of rice by 1/3 and add more green vegetables to stabilize blood sugar.
3. Prepare lots of vegetables
Vegetables can be prepared in a variety of ways such as steaming, boiling, stir-frying, and cooking. In addition, you should prepare raw vegetables, lettuce, cucumbers, and tomatoes so that when needed, you can have a convenient salad plate.
4. Eat fat in moderation
Fried spring rolls, pig's ear sausage, braised pork, pig's feet soup with bamboo shoots... contain a lot of cholesterol and energy. Therefore, diabetics with dyslipidemia, overweight, and obesity need to eat moderate amounts, and when preparing food, they should choose low-fat meat as ingredients.
5. Limit processed foods
Pickles (pickled onions, pickled onions, pickles, kimchi...) are foods that stimulate the taste buds, aid digestion, and are easy to eat, but contain a lot of sugar and salt. For normal people, eating too much is not good for their health.
6. Eating fresh fruit directly is good for diabetics.
For the fruit group, you should prioritize choosing fruits that are less sweet and high in fiber such as: grapefruit, guava, apple, strawberry, dragon fruit, peach, orange, papaya... It is better to eat fresh fruit directly than puree it and especially do not squeeze it for juice.
7. Choose healthy snacks
For snacks, patients should choose unsalted nuts such as almonds, walnuts, cashews, pumpkin seeds, melon seeds, sunflower seeds, macadamia nuts... instead of jams, candies, dried fruits, dried apricots...
8. Note the safe alcohol threshold
Alcohol contributes to unstable blood sugar, up and down, which can cause unforeseen consequences. Diabetics should only drink beer and wine in recommended amounts.
9. Avoid using bottled soft drinks
Soft drinks and bottled soft drinks will cause blood sugar to increase rapidly after drinking, so people with diabetes should avoid using them.
10. Check your blood sugar regularly
During and after Tet, people with diabetes should measure their capillary blood sugar at home more often to promptly detect times when their blood sugar is high or when they have low blood sugar. From there, they will detect mistakes in their diet and make timely adjustments.
