This is the question that my diabetic patients always ask themselves. We hope this article will improve your knowledge of diet for a diabetic patient.

AVOID THESE FOODS

If you are a diabetic patient, try to avoid the following list of foods.

1-Sugar, artificial sweeteners and honey. However, you can take sweetener like stevia. It is difficult to skip sugar from your diet all at once, I will recommend that you decrease the sugar in your diet gradually.

2-You must stop taking sweets and chocolates. If you are at a party and want to have chocolate, then preferably try to have Continental dark chocolate with at least 70% or more cocoa solids, and try to avoid chocolates where sugar is the first ingredient mentioned.

3-Try to avoid foods that contain ingredients ending in (ol) or (ose) as these are mainly different forms of carbohydrates like fructose, glucose, dextrose.

4-Avoid cereals such as cakes, cookies, tarts, tarts, breakfast cereals, wheat, rye, barley, corn, rice, bread, pasta, pastry,

5-Avoid vegetables that contain a higher amount of starch and carbohydrates such as potatoes, carrots, peas, beans, parsnips, beets.

6-Avoid also fruits like watermelon, mango, banana, chikoos (Pakistani), jackfruit, grape, strawberry, sugar cane.

7-You can drink milk but in little quantity. Avoid fatty yogurts and cheese. Also be careful not to drink too much coffee or tea and add only the amount of sugar needed for taste.

8-Avoid commercially packaged foods such as television dinners, “lean” or “light” in particular, and snacks, fast foods.

9-Avoid fresh fruit juices as these are highly concentrated carbohydrates. If you like fruit juices, you can dilute one part juice with 3-4 parts water.

10-Always avoid saturated fats such as fatty meat, full-fat dairy products, butter, lard. Try to prefer unsaturated fats like olive oil, corn oil, canola oil, sunflower oil, soybean oil. Avoid cottage cheese as it is high in carbohydrates and very low in fat.

You must be thinking that I have mentioned all the things here, and there is nothing left to eat, these are foods that you can eat:

1-You can take fruits like apple, grapefruit, lime, peaches. You should divide your diet of fruits and vegetables into five portions throughout the day, by spreading the fruit you eat throughout the day you help avoid a sudden increase in blood sugar levels.

2-You must have a high fiber diet. The fibrous diet is cereals, fruits, nuts, legumes, seeds, vegetables. The fibrous diet not only lowers the glucose level, but also lowers the cholesterol in the blood.

3-Always try to take whole foods instead of processed foods and take things like whole wheat spaghetti and brown rice instead of white (Pakistani Indian) rice. Pakistanis and Indians like white rice very much, but if you are diabetic, please avoid it.

4-You can take lamb, beef once or twice a week. The organ meats can also be taken as liver, kidney and heart to meet your vitamin needs.

5-Try to take white meats such as poultry, chicken, fish, meat, duck, etc.

6-You can take all kinds of fish and shellfish. Boiling, steaming, baking, or broiling fish is recommended rather than frying.

7-Always prefer non-fat dairy products such as “skimmed milk”, skimmed cheeses and yogurts.

8-You can also take eggs, but try to take the white part, not the yellow one, as it can increase your cholesterol level.

9-You can take all cheeses except cottage cheese.

10-You can take all vegetables, onion and garlic are known to lower blood glucose levels.

Generally, patients with type 2 diabetes need a diet of 1,500-1,800 calories per day to promote weight loss, however, the calorie requirement may vary based on age, gender, activity level, and body weight of the patient. patient. 50% of the total required daily calories should come from carbohydrates. One gram of carbohydrates is equal to approximately 4 calories. A diabetic patient on a 1600 calorie diet should get 50% of these calories from carbohydrates. In other words it will be equal to 800 Calories of Carbohydrates, it means you have to take 200gms of carbohydrates every day, you’d better buy food tables with calorie measurements to know more about your required daily nutrition.