What are the dietary taboos for high blood sugar?

In fact, the core dietary taboo for people with high blood sugar is never as simple as "not eating sweets", but the uncontrolled intake of fast-absorbing carbohydrates, coupled with a long-term unbalanced diet that drags down the ability to regulate blood sugar.

Two months ago, I accompanied my relatives to the endocrinology department for a follow-up visit. I met an uncle who had just been diagnosed with high blood sugar. A fasting of 7.3 was not particularly serious. As a result, he stopped eating all rice and fruits when he came home. He ate boiled vegetables with multi-grain steamed buns and ate cucumbers when he was hungry. After half a month, he went for a follow-up check in a daze. His blood sugar had not dropped much, and he was also found to be low in potassium. He couldn't walk without walking, which means he had completely fallen into the misunderstanding of sugar control.

Many people have extreme misunderstandings about sugar-control diets, and even think that anything with sweetness should not be touched. In fact, there have been different opinions in the industry: If your blood sugar has been relatively stable and your glycation is below 6.5 for a long time, eating half a fistful of low-GI fruits between meals, such as sour strawberries, crisp apples, or even a small slice of grapefruit, can supplement dietary fiber and vitamins. It is much more reliable than being so hungry that you can't help but eat two soda crackers. I have an old sugar lover who has been controlling sugar for five or six years. As long as the postprandial blood sugar is stable below 7.8, he will eat half a soft peach every day. For so long, the sugar level has been maintained at around 6.1. On the contrary, there is an aunt in the same neighborhood who dare not touch anything sweet. The last time she couldn't help but eat two teeth of watermelon, her blood sugar soared to 11.3, and she was scared to death.

Compared with visible sugar, more people step on invisible fast-absorbing carbohydrates. An aunt asked me before, saying that she never eats sugar or fruit, but why her blood sugar after meals is always above 9. After asking, I found out that she eats three "sugar-free soda crackers" every afternoon, which are said to be sugar-free. In fact, the first two ingredients on the list are wheat flour and refined vegetable oil. No added sucrose does not mean that there is no carbohydrate. Biscuits made from refined grains are digested very quickly, and the rate of raising blood sugar is really no slower than drinking half a cup of Coke. There are also thickened vegetables, sticky white porridge, and even meatballs with a lot of flour sold outside, which are invisible high-sugar consumers. If you don't pay attention to eating too much, your blood sugar will rise.

As for the debate among many people about "can you drink porridge if you have high blood sugar?", there is actually no absolute standard answer. If you cook a multigrain porridge that is mixed with beans, oats, and brown rice, and it is not particularly bad, drink less than half a bowl at a time, and pair it with a large plate of green leafy vegetables and a piece of fried chicken breast. The degree of blood sugar rise is actually controllable, and there is no need to beat it to death with a stick.； But if you like to drink the kind of white porridge that is boiled until the rice is melted, and you drink it on an empty stomach and don’t drink anything afterward, then the rate of blood sugar rise will really surprise you.

Another point that many people don’t know is not to eat too much high-fat food. Many people think that fat can be eaten without raising blood sugar, such as braised pork and fried dough sticks. In fact, long-term eating of high-fat food will aggravate insulin resistance and make it more difficult to control blood sugar. In the past, a diabetic friend gave up all sweets, just one bite of braised pork, and had to eat two pieces every time. In half a year, the glycemic index rose from 6.4 to 7.7. The doctor found out the reason after asking about his diet for a long time.

To put it bluntly, there really aren’t that many absolute “taboos” in controlling sugar. To put it bluntly, it just depends on the amount and the combination. You don’t have to be frightened to touch anything after hearing what the Internet says you can’t eat. After all, controlling sugar is a lifelong matter. You can’t just eat boiled vegetables every day to survive, right? Test your post-meal blood sugar several times on a daily basis, slowly figure out what you eat to raise blood sugar, what you eat is okay, and the most reliable way is to find a eating rhythm that suits you.