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PRECAUTIONS
There are three methods to control diabetes.
1. diet and exercise
2. diet and oral drugs
3. diet and insulin
diet, therefore, plays an important role in the control of diabetes.
1. In all types of diabetics, the amount and time of food intake, particularly
carbohydrate, should be controlled, so as to prevent as far as possible,
fluctuations of blood glucose beyond the normal range. therefore, diabetics
should not keep irregular timings for meals.
2. Intke of refined sugars should be low, because their consumption is
followed by absorption and a high peak of blood glucose.
3. Diabetics should avoid fasting or feasting.
4. Their diet from day to day should be maintained with adjustments for
exercise and appetite; they should not miss a meal or over indulge.
5. There are two essential points about a diabetic diet. First, energy
intake should be adjusted to maintain ideal body weight in obese, maturity-onset
diabetes. Secondly, all patients taking insulin should follow a regular
pattern of meals, matched to the injected insulin.
6. Alcohol consumption should be least or best avoided, because it causes
severe hypolgycaemia and damage to nerves and heart.
7. Diabetics should go for foods of low glycaemic index value.
8. Greasy snacks and rich spicy food are not only difficult to digest,
especially in old obese diabetics, but they also cause stomach irritation.
9. Diabetics should make the habit of regular testing of sugar level in
the urine with dipsticks. They should change the quality and quantity
of food intake accordingly.
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