Diabetes is a common chronic disease that affects the health and quality of life of hundreds of millions of people worldwide. It is a metabolic disease characterized by elevated blood glucose caused by insufficient insulin secretion or impaired utilization. Long-term hyperglycemia can cause a variety of complications, including cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, kidney diseases, eye diseases, etc., which brings a heavy burden to patients and families.
Diabetes can be divided into type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, and gestational diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is more common in adolescence and requires lifelong insulin use**.
Diabetes mellitus is complex, including genetic factors, environmental factors and other factors. Among them, genetic factors are one of the important causes of diabetes, and environmental factors will also play a certain role in the occurrence of diabetes.
The symptoms of diabetes mainly include polydipsia, polyuria, polyphagia, weight loss, etc., these symptoms may vary from person to person, but they are usually more obvious, if these symptoms are found, you should seek medical attention in time, and carry out relevant examinations and**.
Sweet potatoes are a South American plant, and sweet potatoes have been cultivated as a staple food like barley in that land until the Ming Dynasty.
Sweet potatoes, like other vegetables, are rich in trace elements, vitamins and minerals, as well as a lot of dietary fiber and starch.
One of the most significant nutrients of sweet potatoes that makes sweet potatoes stand out from other vegetables is vitamin A.
Each 100 grams of sweet potatoes contain more than 4,000 units of vitamin A, and compared with the vitamin content of other vegetables, you can also know how rich the vitamin A content of sweet potatoes is.
For people with high blood sugar levels, they not only need to follow the doctor's instructions to use drugs rationally in their daily life, but also need to control their sugar intake through diet, so when you eat some foods, if you find the sweetness of this food, you will want to stay away immediately.
Sweet potatoes have a soft and glutinous sweet taste, and the main reason for this taste is that sweet potatoes contain a lot of starchy substances.
Such carbohydrates and calories will not have much impact on diabetics with high blood sugar levels, but everyone must control the intake of sweet potatoes, otherwise it will be easy to make blood sugar levels fluctuate.
In addition, the blood sugar generation index is not high, only about 50, and eating sweet potatoes often will not increase blood sugar levels, because sweet potatoes contain a certain amount of dietary fiber, which can effectively prolong the stay time of food in people's intestines and stomach, and avoid the increase in blood sugar levels after meals.
In addition, it can also reduce the intestinal absorption rate of starch and delay the corresponding rate of conversion into glucose, so for diabetic patients, they can usually eat some sweet potatoes.
Sweet potatoes are a plant-based protein that provides the body with calories for a longer period of time** and can promote weight loss, thereby enhancing insulin sensitivity.
In addition, sweet potatoes can also be regarded as an important part of dietary fiber**, which can enhance satiety, reduce calorie intake, and help people maintain a healthy weight.
2.Strengthens the body's immunity
The content of vitamin C and vitamin E in sweet potatoes is relatively high, vitamin C can promote the secretion of antibodies, improve the antioxidant capacity of cells, and ensure a strong immune system.
Vitamin E can protect various cells of the body, and can also delay the speed of aging, eating sweet potatoes in moderation is conducive to enhancing immunity.
3.More delicate
In daily life, we can eat more sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes contain more vitamin C, vitamin E These vitamin E are relatively good, it can effectively promote the metabolism of **.
In addition, sweet potatoes contain more estrogen, which is very good for women, it can effectively enhance the elasticity of the body, reduce the excessive accumulation of fat, and effectively prevent the growth of wrinkles.
4.Keep away from constipation
Due to lifestyle changes, constipation has become a common problem for many elderly people and office workers. Especially after eating hot pot, barbecue and other heavy foods, drinking less water, it becomes difficult to go to the toilet...But at this time, if you insist on sweet potatoes as the staple food, this problem will be solved.
The dietary fiber in sweet potatoes can promote gastrointestinal motility and help us flush out waste and toxins from the body. If you drink plenty of water while eating sweet potatoes, the effect of stool will be more pronounced.
In addition, although doctors believe that eating sweet potatoes for diabetics can help their health, they are not unconditional and arbitrary, and it is best to follow the following two principles when eating sweet potatoes:
1.Choose to eat steamed
Although sweet potatoes are very low in carbohydrates, they are also foods that contain carbohydrates, and after eating sweet potatoes, it is easy for blood sugar to fluctuate.
The cooking method of sweet potatoes is particularly important, steamed and eaten, and can effectively absorb some water during the steaming process, which can reduce calories and carbohydrate content.
2.Be mindful of how much you serve
Sugar friends must pay attention to the amount of sweet potatoes to eat, if it is eaten as a staple food, then each meal needs to be controlled at about 100 grams, and you can't eat it every day, just eat it once or twice a week, don't eat it more than twice a week.
Finally, we would like to emphasize one point: if your blood sugar has fluctuated greatly recently and your blood pressure is not well controlled, you should still eat according to the recipe recommended by your doctor.
1.Polyuria
In people with diabetes, blood sugar rises and glomerular filtration rate increases, resulting in an increase in urine output and an increase in the frequency of urination, resulting in symptoms of polyuria.
2.Drink more
As a result of the increase in blood glucose, the concentration of glucose in the urine increases, the plasma osmolality increases, and the intracellular water is transferred to the extracellular, causing polydipsia.
3.Eat more
Diabetic patients do not secrete enough insulin in their bodies, resulting in blood sugar that cannot be fully utilized, blood sugar rises, and cells lack energy, which leads to hunger and symptoms of polyphagia.
4.Weight loss
In diabetic patients, blood sugar rises, glucose cannot be utilized, and lipolysis increases, leading to weight loss.