Diet Chart for Diabetes Patients

Early Morning

• Juice of half a lemon mixed in a glass of warm water and a teaspoon of honey.

Breakfast

• Carbohydrates, whole wheat bread, roti (chapati), whole grain cereal.

• A cup of skimmed milk.

Lunch

• Salad of raw vegetables such as carrot, cucumber, cabbage, tomatoes, fruits and boiled vegetables as starter.

• Wheat chapatis/rice.

• Whole grain vegetables like, daal, peas, lightly cooked vegetables, green coriander leaves.

• Skim yogurt.

Mid afternoon

A glass of carrot, orange, pineapple/ mix juice or tea/ milk made with natural preparation to cure any ailment. Some fruits.

Dinner

• A vegetable soup as starter.

• Wheat chapatis/rice.

• Whole grain vegetables and lightly cooked green vegetables.

• Fruit salad, cabbage, carrot.

• Skimmed yogurt, if needed.

Choose the Type of Food:

• Eat skin nourishing nourishing foods. Leafy green vegetables contain vitamins, minerals and are high in antioxidant properties.

• Fruits like orange, grapes, melons, pears, plums and stewed apples at are excellent for the skin. They can be eaten any time. But do not overeat.

• Avoid packaged, canned, frozen, processed foods and leftovers. Prefer frehly prepared food.

• Use spices like turmeric, coriander, cumin and black pepper to improve digestion, nourish the skin.

• Oils like ghee (clarified butter) and organic, extra virgin olive oil should be included in the diet as they lubricate, nourish and create lustre in the skin.

• Have two glass of daily milk

What Food Diabetes Should Eat?

• Milk. should drink fresh milk but should not drink sweetened milk.
• Vegetable. both fresh and boiled vegetable because fiber in vegetable help less sugar absorption.
• But they should avoid eating vegetable with high carbohydrate such as pumpkins, carrot, and peanut.
• Fruit. sugar in fruit upon to what kind of fruit, should not eat sweet fruit.
• Grain diabetes can eat grain every day but how many to eat depend on how many activity, unpolished rice is good for diabetes because it has high fiber and vitamins.
• Meat. diabetes should eat meat adequate to needed or about 100 gram per meal, should not eat meat with fat or entrails.
• Egg. useful food for diabetes should eat 3-4 eggs per week.
• Artificial sweetener. no forbid for diabetes but should not eat much.
• Fiber. diabetes should eat fiber because it reduce lipid and sugar in blood.

Do and Do not When you are Diabetes

• Do eat at on time, do not late or cancel eating.
• Do use insulin or tablet at the right time.
• Do not work too hard.
• Do clean yourself, be aware to injure.
• Do check sugar in the urine periodically.
• Do exercise.
• Do eat sweet when you feel weakness, headache, or blur.
• Do have tag or label to show you are diabetes, what drug you get and keep some sweets with you.
• Do not be fat or over weight.
• Do not be too nervous or anxious or worry.