Diabetic Diets The Facts
A diabetic diet can not only help reduce the effects of diabetes, but in certain cases can reverse the disease. Here is more on this style of diet which limits fat and carbohydrates.
Before considering the diabetic diet it’s valuable to understand the 2 types of diabetes. Type I, called juvenile diabetes, is often diagnosed in children while type II usually starts in adulthood and is more general. With type I diabetes the body does not produce insulin, whereas with type II diabetes the cells generally ignore the insulin. Both forms of the disease respond well to a diabetic diet, although it is more likely that type II diabetes can in fact be avoided or reversed in initial stages.
The diabetic diet is designed around maintaining an ideal body weight. It’s straightforward to calculate ideal body weight for men or women. For a woman begin with 100 pounds at 5 feet tall, at 5 pounds for every inch above 5 feet, while if under 5 feet deduct 5 pounds for each inch under 5 feet. Here’s a quick example a woman who is 5′4 tall ideally should be 100+20 pounds, in other words 120 pounds. For men commence with 106 pounds for a height of 5 feet than add 6 pounds for every inch greater than 5 feet. So for a six foot tall man best weight would be 178 pounds.
The perfect formula for a diabetic diet varies, but there are some common basics. A type I diabetic should ideally consume 16 calories per pound of their weight. Therefore a 150 pound person could eat as many as 2400 calories in a day. Type II people should lose weight by eating as little as 1500 calories daily, then refer to the type I formula to maintain ideal weight.
Carbohydrates account for about 50% of the calories consumed in a diabetic diet. It is often believed that even lower card-levels are healthier for Diabetic patients, but higher percentages of fat in the diet has its own problems. People who avoid saturated fats, even if they take in overall more mono and poly unsaturated fats, also do well.
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