Diabetic people want to eat sweets occasionally, is it allowed?

Allow! It is ok to eat a small piece occasionally, but don't get into the habit of eating a few small pieces secretly every day. Sometimes, for a greedy person, eating a small piece is actually acceptable. If you restrain yourself too much for a long time, it may have an impact on your psychology. On the contrary, it is difficult to control your diet, and you may suddenly overeat some sweets and let yourself go deep into the literature. But try not to eat high-sugar foods, especially friends with 1 type diabetes, because insulin is "brittle" and it is difficult to control the dosage. The intake of high-sugar foods will have a greater impact on blood sugar.

It is not impossible to choose sugar-free and low-sugar foods/eat less and eat more sweets, mainly depending on the influence of food on blood sugar. For people who love sugar, of course, they should choose the one with less influence. We can choose "sugar-free food", which tastes sweet, but without sucrose. Sugar-free foods use sweeteners instead of sucrose. Although it is also sweet, it has little effect on blood sugar. But it should be noted that sugar-free foods are not eaten open. For example, sugar-free biscuits and sugar-free moon cakes are rich in fat and starch, which should be controlled. Because starch will eventually be converted into glucose, eating too much will not only consume more fat, but also consume a lot of sugar, which will affect blood sugar. It is suggested that 50g sugar-free pastry food is enough at a time (half a small piece of moon cake), and one day 100g is enough. You can eat it several times, not all at once, lest your blood sugar soar.

It's not that you can't eat low-sugar foods, such as sweets with little sugar content. It is also ok to eat a small piece to satisfy your appetite.

Choose to eat sugar between meals or when hypoglycemia occurs. Because of taking hypoglycemic drugs and injecting insulin, friends can also control the blood sugar after meals to return to a stable level. Blood sugar between meals may be low, and sometimes hypoglycemia occurs during strenuous exercise. This is your best chance! Choose some low-sugar sweets to eat, which can not only satisfy gluttony, but also regulate blood sugar, so that we will not have hypoglycemia. However, it is best not to eat extra meals after meals unless the blood sugar feels low. Blood sugar is on the rise after meals. Your blood sugar will soar if you eat some sweets.

Although sweets should be controlled, sugar friends can eat some fruits appropriately. Fruit is a sweet food. If you really can't help eating sweet things, fruit is the best choice. Fruit is rich in dietary fiber, which helps to stabilize blood sugar, and it is nutritious and can provide many beneficial ingredients for people who love sugar. But it's best not to overdo the fruit. After all, it is also a food rich in sugar. It is recommended that 200g (the amount of two small apples) be used every day.

Focus! !

Don't eat more hypoglycemic drugs and inject more insulin in order to eat a piece of cake, which will easily lead to large fluctuations in blood sugar and risk hypoglycemia. We should use more exercise to consume sugar to stabilize blood sugar.

What diabetics are most worried about is the sharp rise of blood sugar after eating, so first look at what kind of food to eat, which has a greater impact on postprandial blood sugar. Here are two indicators, one is the amount of carbohydrates in food, and the other is the glycemic index. The amount of carbohydrates determines the degree of postprandial blood sugar rise, and the glycemic index determines the speed of postprandial blood sugar rise. However, the sweetness of food is not directly related to blood sugar.

For example, after eating a bowl of white rice, blood sugar rises quickly and high, but white rice is not sweet. The reason is that white rice contains a lot of carbohydrates, which is a fine carbohydrate with a very high glycemic index. Another example is that apples are sweet. After eating an apple, the speed of blood sugar rising is not fast. The reason is that the carbohydrate content of apples is not high, and the glycemic index is not high, so the speed and degree of blood sugar increase after meals are very general.

Seeing this, everyone understands that whether diabetics can eat sweets depends on the effect of this dessert on postprandial blood sugar. Always consult diabetics. Can they eat fruit? In fact, people with diabetes can eat fruit, as long as they choose the right fruit. There are many kinds of low-sugar fruits that are very suitable for diabetics, such as apples, oranges and grapefruit. These fruits are characterized by low glycemic index and slow rise of blood sugar after meals. As long as the total amount is controlled, it is completely possible for diabetics to eat a medium-sized fruit every day.

There is also a dessert made of sugar, such as pudding, cake, sweet bread, milk tea and so on. This sweet food has a high total carbohydrate content and a high glycemic index. After eating, the blood sugar rises quickly! This sweet food is taboo for diabetics.

There is also a kind of food, which consists of fine carbohydrates, such as white rice porridge, white rice and white steamed bread. Although these foods are not sweet, the speed and degree of blood sugar increase after meals are also very severe. People with diabetes should also eat less.

Can sugar friends eat sweets after all? Many people must give a negative answer to this question, but this is not the case. For example, when sugar friends' blood sugar is extremely low, even in a state of hypoglycemia, eating sweets to raise their blood sugar is a life-saving practice. Sugar friends are more prone to hypoglycemia than ordinary people, and many times they will put some candy in their bags for emergencies. Therefore, sugar friends can actually eat sweets, but the premise is to ensure the relative stability of their blood sugar, and to maintain the relative stability of blood sugar. In fact, sugar friends don't have any food that must not be eaten.

However, people who love sweets should never do something they shouldn't do in order to eat sweets, such as increasing the amount of insulin injections and hypoglycemic drugs without authorization. This will cause large fluctuations and inadaptability of blood sugar, thus increasing the difficulty of blood sugar control. If the drug effect is too large, hypoglycemia will appear in the night sleep stage, which may even cause life-threatening! The correct way is to minimize the intake of sweets. If you really want to eat sweets, you should choose sweets with low sugar content and eat more times. If your blood sugar is wrong after eating, you should actively adjust your blood sugar through exercise. In some countries, 50 grams of biscuits may be added to the diet of diabetics. These cookies are low-sugar foods, but they also prove that people who love sugar are not people who can't eat sweets.

Sugar friends have no absolutely untouchable food, but conversely, compared with sweets, sugar friends should also pay attention to the intake of several foods: ① high-oil and high-fat foods, which seem to have no direct relationship with blood sugar, but do have an indirect impact on blood sugar! If we eat high-oil and high-fat foods for a long time, such as sugar lovers who love to eat pork belly, fat and fried foods, our body needs more enzymes to decompose these oils, and endocrine may become more disordered, which will have an impact on insulin secretion; High oil and fat make us fat. Obese people need more units of insulin to stabilize blood sugar, which will greatly increase insulin resistance. In the long run, it will not only increase the risk of other cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, increase the probability of diabetic complications, but also have some disadvantages in controlling daily blood sugar.

There are also many processed foods, such as puffed snacks, instant drinks and canned food. These foods may contain many additives, and even added sucrose and oil, which is also unfavorable for controlling blood sugar. In addition, these foods may also contain trans fatty acids. The intake of trans fatty acids is harmful to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, which will increase the concentration of low-density lipoprotein and increase the probability of lipoprotein accumulation on the blood vessel wall, thus inducing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and increasing the probability of diabetic complications.

3 Starch food Although starch is not refined sugar, it will eventually be converted into glucose and enter the blood to affect blood sugar. Sugar lovers of starchy foods also need to control, such as staple food, potatoes, soybeans and other foods. Some foods that say "sugar-free food" may also be foods with high starch content and need to be controlled, such as sugar-free moon cakes and sugar-free biscuits.

Aunt Li, a sugar friend, quarreled with his wife in the clinic. Because Aunt Li was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes two months ago, my wife looked up a lot of books after seeing the test results, and she was very nervous about Aunt Li's illness, so she strictly controlled Aunt Li's diet.

Aunt Li said that she is 1.7 meters tall, and half a bowl of rice is not enough. She has always loved dessert, but now her wife won't let her eat it at all. She is hungry and wronged.

Can diabetics really not eat sweets at all?

The answer is: you can eat it, but you need to control the amount, time and variety.

Many sweets are made up of animal cream, starch, sucrose, condensed milk, etc. High sugar content, fast sugar rise. But we can choose sugar-free candy, which is generally made of low-sugar but high-sweetness sweeteners, suitable for people who love sugar.

In addition, it is suggested that sugar friends can eat a small amount of sweets between meals, not exceeding 50g a day. At the same time, fruit is also a kind of sweet food, which is rich in nutrition and can supplement vitamin C. Fruit can be used instead of sweet food.

Of course, we also need to pay attention to the consumption of fruits, and try to choose low-sugar fruits, such as grapefruit and apples.

Finally, I wish you good health!

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Editor in charge | Jin Xiaoxiao

The doctor will definitely not allow it, but personally, everyone can eat it, and the amount must be controlled.

Sweets refer to foods with extra sugar, including biscuits, cream cakes, cakes, snacks, cakes and sweet bread. The main raw material of candy is refined flour, added with sugar and fat, and a small amount of milk powder and eggs. For diabetic patients, refined flour and added sugar are the main foods that lead to the rapid growth of sugar, which is very unfavorable for diabetic patients to control blood sugar, weight and protect islet function. Restricting starchy foods such as flour and avoiding extra sugar is one of the main dietary methods for diabetic patients to control blood sugar, so as long as there is no hypoglycemia, there is no need to eat sweets.

In daily life, if diabetics cut cakes on their birthdays or have special desserts, can they eat them? It is suggested that the birthday cake be replaced with longevity noodles and egg noodles made of whole wheat flour. If diabetics really want to eat cakes and other desserts, they can eat a small piece of dessert with controlled blood sugar, and it is best to eat a vegetable salad without salad dressing.

Many diabetics feel that after being diagnosed with diabetes, they are deprived of the right to eat sweets and other delicious foods, and their hearts are very uncomfortable. In fact, from the perspective of nutritional value, sweets contain too many carbohydrates and fats, almost no dietary fiber, and have a single nutrition, so they are not necessary foods. Moreover, not only people with diabetes should avoid eating, but even people with normal blood sugar should eat less or even not eat sweets.

Although sweets bring happiness to people, people can get happiness in many ways besides sweets, such as singing and dancing, calligraphy and painting, sports and traveling. These hobbies can not only exercise, but also make people happy, so diabetics don't have to get short but harmful happiness from sweets.

About the author: Frances Sun, registered nutrition technician.

Nutritionist Tang Xiao will answer your questions. Diabetics occasionally want to eat sweets, which is of course allowed. But there is a small premise, blood sugar control is ok. If the blood sugar is high, for example, the blood sugar is often as high as ten after meals, it is not recommended to eat sweets or endure until the blood sugar is better controlled.

In fact, diabetics don't have to talk about "sugar" discoloration. If they want to eat sweets, they can choose sugar-based foods to flavor them. The so-called sugar substitute refers to a sweet but low-calorie sweetener, such as xylitol, stevia, amino acid proteoglycan, fructose, yuanse and so on. Moderate consumption of sugar substitutes has little effect on blood sugar, but it is not advisable to eat too much sugar substitutes, because excessive consumption will also have disadvantages. For example, excessive consumption of xylitol can lead to diarrhea and may also lead to an increase in triglyceride levels. Generally, xylitol should not exceed 50 grams per day.

How to eat sugar substitute: Sugar friends can use sugar substitute as seasoning, such as using xylitol in mung bean soup, adding a little xylitol in plain milk, and using sugar substitute when making cakes at home.

By the way, can eating sugar-free food control sugar?

In fact, sugar-free food is not really "sugar-free". It just uses aspartame, xylitol and acesulfame to increase the sweetness. Although no extra sugar is added, sugar-free cakes and biscuits often contain more starch, and the sugar rises faster, but it is slightly slower than ordinary cakes. Therefore, even if it is sugar-free food, sugar friends should not be greedy.

I hope Tang Xiao's answer can help friends, and we will share more knowledge about diabetes diet in the following questions and answers!

Everyone has such a mentality. Sometimes the more you can't get something, the more you want it. For diabetics, the same is true. Everyone knows that diabetes can't eat sweets, but for many patients who like sweets, sometimes they still want to eat a little. Can I eat? Let's look down.

The normal metabolism of human body needs sugar. Sugar, as one of the three major nutrients in our body, is also essential for us, and the whole grains we usually eat, such as rice, noodles and steamed bread, are all starch foods, which are metabolized into glucose to provide energy.

The so-called "sweets" in our daily life are foods containing a lot of sucrose and glucose, such as glucose water, brown sugar water, sucrose, sucrose cakes and so on.

The only difference is that glucose and sucrose contained in sweets can be quickly absorbed by the human body. After eating these foods, sugar will be quickly absorbed by the human body, and blood sugar will suddenly rise and last for a while. Sugar metabolism in grains is slow.

Perhaps for many diabetic friends, if you eat this dessert, it will have a greater impact on your diabetes.

So when can diabetics eat sweets? First, when hypoglycemia occurs in diabetic patients, especially in patients treated with insulin, hypoglycemia will occur if it is improperly applied. At this time, sugar needs to be supplemented in time, and sweets are a good choice.

Secondly, if the blood sugar control of diabetic patients is ideal, it doesn't matter to eat a small amount once a day occasionally. As long as you don't eat it often, you are allowed. Even if blood sugar fluctuates, it will soon calm down and have little effect.

Try to arrange sweets between meals. If you eat sweets for dinner, you need to reduce the intake of other foods and avoid too much sugar.

Third, if the blood sugar control of diabetic patients is not ideal, then don't eat sweets, so as not to cause a sharp rise in blood sugar and damage to the body.

What should diabetics do if they are really obsessed with sweets every day? Never overeat or eat daily sweets frequently. Fortunately, in order to make diabetics happy to eat "sweet", people invented sweeteners. However, these sweeteners are only used to alleviate the smoking addiction of diabetic patients and cannot be used excessively for a long time.

1, saccharin

It is an ancient sweetener with high sweetness, but it will be bitter if used too much, which is harmful to the health.

2. Xylitol

After eating xylitol, the speed of blood sugar rise is much lower than that after eating glucose, but eating too much xylitol will cause diarrhea, so it is not advisable to take it in large quantities.

3, sorbose, which exists in many fruits, has a slightly lower calorie than glucose and will not be converted into glucose after taking it. It is a sweetener suitable for people with diabetes complicated with hepatitis and cholecystitis.

4, maltitol, the sweetness is close to sucrose, it does not produce heat, nor does it contain synthetic fat and stimulate the formation of cholesterol. It is an ideal sweetener for patients with diabetes, coronary heart disease and obesity.

5. Stevioside, commonly known as Stevioside. Stevioside is 200-250 times sweeter than sucrose, and its sweetness is close to sucrose.

In fact, at present, there are many "sweets" specially for diabetics on the market, most of which are sweetened foods.

What are the precautions for daily diabetes? 1, pay attention to your diet.

Not only should we pay attention to sweets, but we also need a diet with low salt, low fat and low oil. Don't overeat, eat less greasy and fried food and eat more fresh fruits and vegetables.

2. Quit smoking and drinking.

Don't stay up all night

Live regularly, don't stay up late.

4, exercise, enhance physical fitness, avoid excessive fatigue.

Regular exercise can enhance physical fitness, and exercise can consume excess calories in the body, which is very effective for diabetes. Avoid excessive physical labor and high-intensity exercise.

5. Stay optimistic and avoid mood swings.

Stay optimistic every day, don't be too angry, too excited, etc.

It is allowed to eat some candy occasionally.

We just need to control the quantity. Senior and exquisite diabetics or their families can calculate calories. As long as the total calorie intake is well controlled, the types of food should not be too demanding.

The terrible thing is that overeating makes the organs and tissues of the whole body soak in high blood sugar for a long time. Over time, complications will inevitably form, and most of them are irreversible.

What is even more frightening is that the control is too strict, and even anorexia is formed. Once hypoglycemia occurs, it is more harmful and even fatal. Let's put it this way: a year of high blood sugar is as harmful as a time of low blood sugar.

Diabetes is painful and complicated. However, many people with diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease and other diseases have lived to the age of 80 or 90, all of whom have had no problems for decades, and suddenly there are a lot of attacks.

In my daily health management, some clients are diabetics. Since you have diabetes, you naturally have strict diet control, but people always want to eat their favorite foods, such as sweets. So, as a sugar friend, do you want to eat sweets occasionally? This is my suggestion.

According to the blood sugar control, scientific and reasonable arrangements.

Under the premise of stable blood sugar control, if sugar lovers want to eat sweets, they can arrange to eat less when adding meals, which is absolutely possible. But the amount of food should also be controlled. You can't eat too much, just taste it. The changes of blood sugar should be strictly monitored after meals.

After eating dessert, the staple food for dinner should be reduced by a certain amount, and the calories of the whole food should be reduced relatively in one day. After all, the sugar content and calories of desserts are not low.

After eating, don't stay at home, go out for exercise. Exercise can increase insulin sensitivity.

To sum up, according to the method proposed in this paper, sugar friends can eat less and control the times of blood sugar control. After eating, they can reduce the amount of staple food and calories of other foods throughout the day, and occasionally enjoy sweetness.