Although the Lantern Festival is delicious, don t be greedy! Beware of being robbed of light by the

Mondo Gastronomy Updated on 2024-02-22

Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle. It has been said that even if the fifteenth day is over, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month will come, and it is also commonly known as the "Lantern Festival".

On this cheerful and festive day, how can there be a Lantern Festival and glutinous rice balls on the table, which symbolize reunion?

Speaking of glutinous rice, the raw material of Lantern Festival glutinous rice balls, some people are really happy and some are worried.

For partners who like to eat sweets, it is a kind of delicious enjoyment, but for diabetics with high blood sugar, glutinous rice itself has a high starch content, and glutinous rice balls made of glutinous rice are also added with bean paste, black sesame seeds, etc., which are high-sugar fillings, resulting in greasy and high-calorie glutinous rice balls, and more firmly sit on the "throne" of high-calorie and high-sugar refined grains.

Diabetes is also a metabolic disease, and too much energy intake cannot be converted in the body. Therefore, many diabetics can only be discouraged, looking at the glutinous rice balls sadly and unable to taste them?

Professor Chen Zhongping, vice president of Changsha Aier Eye Hospital and director of fundus disease, said that in fact, diabetic patients do not need to reject any food, and the correct way is to eat in moderation and not too much. However, there are the following precautions to be healthy:

1. If your blood sugar is not well controlled, it is not recommended to eat Lantern Festival.

People should not ignore their health for a moment, and a rapid increase in blood sugar is very likely to induce acute complications.

2. Correctly purchase the Lantern Festival.

The main raw material of Lantern Festival is glutinous rice flour, which is solid and filling. The filling is usually very sweet, so it is recommended to choose no filling or salty Lantern Festival to avoid blood sugar rise.

3. Properly process and eat Lantern Festival.

There are many ways to eat Lantern Festival, which can be boiled, steamed, fried, and drawn. However, the practice of boiling and steaming is more suitable for the cooking principle of diabetics, which can avoid the intake of more salt, oil, etc., which is not conducive to the control of blood pressure and blood lipids.

4. When eating Lantern Festival, the amount of other staple foods should be appropriately reduced.

Lantern Festival is high in sugar, fat and calories, and 4 Lantern Festival is equivalent to the calories of 1 bowl of rice.

Therefore, diabetic patients should appropriately reduce the intake of other staple foods when eating Lantern Festival, so as not to increase the total daily calories. But don't eat too much, it is advisable to eat 1-3 Lantern Festival according to your own situation.

When diabetes comes to the door, how to protect your eyes?

1. Eat a healthy diet.

A healthy diet is associated with good diabetes control, and poor diabetes control will greatly increase the risk of diabetes-related eye disease blindness.

2. Exercise more, but avoid strenuous exercise.

Exercise promotes blood circulation to the eyes, which is essential for delivering oxygen and nutrients to the eyes and removing waste products. It has also been linked to a reduced risk of age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and glaucoma. Therefore, physical activity is also essential to manage diabetes.

However, it is worth noting that the retinal neovascular wall of sugar friends is thin and fragile, and when the vibration of the head is too large or long-term vigorous exercise, it is easy to cause abnormalities in the vitreous and retina, and even lead to vitreous hemorrhage.

3. Have regular eye checks.

Many eye diseases are asymptomatic at the beginning of the disease and can cause irreversible damage to the eye if not detected early, impairing the peripheral vision in the first place, which people often go unnoticed. Diabetes-related eye disease can also cause irreversible damage to the eyes.

Therefore, diabetic patients should have fundus examination at least once every six months to ensure that the problem can be solved in time at the early stage of the lesion; For patients with poor glycemic control, the fundus should be rechecked every 3 months or even 1 month.

4. Control blood sugar.

Studies have shown that if fasting blood sugar < 70 mmol L, blood glucose < 10 at 2 hours postprandial time0mmol l, glycosylated hemoglobin < 70%, the risk of diabetic retinopathy is reduced by 50%-70%.

Hypertension is an important cause of fundus hemorrhage in patients with diabetic retinopathy, and it is also one of the direct causes of retinopathy.

Diabetic patients with dyslipidemia are also prone to retinopathy. Therefore, sugar friends must follow the doctor's instructions to take medication to control blood sugar, blood pressure, and blood lipids.

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