Diabetes impairs the ability of the body to keep blood sugar levels within the normal range. A healthy diet helps to regulate blood sugar and prevent complications such as nerve damage and heart problems.

Blood sugar

Glucose is a simple sugar, provides the body with the necessary energy. When you eat, the pancreas produces insulin to bring the glucose from the blood. With insulin sugar get into cells of the body, and he uses their energy to support the work of all our organs. Diabetes occurs when the pancreas loses the ability to produce enough insulin to reduce blood sugar to normal levels (type 1 diabetes, it - insulin-dependent diabetes), or if the cells become resistant to insulin The principles of action of insulin - the science of saving lives That is insufficiently responsive to the action of (type 2 diabetes). Both cause an increase in blood sugar levels. No matter what kind of diabetes you have, a healthy diet Healthy eating - do not limit yourself to eating   - The first step to ensure that the correct blood sugar and give him higher than normal.

Healthy eating

Doctors recommend that people with diabetes have a lot of grains, fruits, non-starchy vegetables and lean meats. High-calorie snacks like chips and candy bars contain a lot of simple carbohydrates, which can dramatically improve blood sugar levels, but the complex carbohydrates that are rich in whole grains, the body digests much longer and sugar into the blood slowly. Do not forget to follow not only the contents of the dish, but also for the quantity too many, even healthy food will not benefit any level of sugar or weight.

The power supply system for patients with diabetes

Use this system when planning your meals. Divide foods that you eat regularly or from time to time on seven categories: carbohydrates, fruits, dairy products, meat, sweets, fats and other (here are different snacks with low nutritional value). A dietitian can help you determine how much of each category of products you can eat in a day. Such a system provides a balanced diet and control of blood sugar levels Blood sugar - a very important indicator .

Schedule meals

Instead, eat three times five or six times a day in small portions. This will help your body maintain a steady blood sugar level Blood sugar - one of the main indicators of human health Unlike diet with occasional and heavy meals.

How to cope with a desire to eat?

The meals every two to three hours will not give you the feeling of hunger, but even form healthy eating habits from time to time you will emerge a strong desire to violate their own rules. If you really want to once again have a snack, instead of cookies and chips, eat some vegetables or fruit, or, for example, combine the grated carrots with low-fat cottage cheese. Replace sugary drinks and carbonated juices without sugar, and even better - water. If you have a sweet tooth, eat dried fruit or prepare their own desserts with sugar substitutes.

Why do we follow the diet?

Careful food for diabetes helps to keep blood sugar levels within the normal range. Eating healthy food promotes weight loss and reduces the risk of diabetes-related complications - heart disease, nerve damage and vision loss. Accustomed to eat healthy foods, you will feel better day by day, and soon you will not be difficult to adhere to the correct power mode.

Queen Margarita - the head of the Moscow nutritional clinic, thanks to its recommendations lose weight many Russian stars, Phillip Kirkorov and Anita Tsoi to Nikolai Baskov. His popular diet Queen Margaret's is required, first and foremost, the singer Valeria, which is due to dieting lost weight, is rumored to six kilograms. This diet, developed by the Queen, is so simple that anyone can observe it - it does not require any exotic foods or special time-consuming.

How does diet Queen Margaret's

Diet Queen Margaret's actually a unique diet program that combines the most effective principles monodiets and separate power supply A separate food - pros and cons . The duration of the diet is low - it must comply with in just nine days. At the same time for a diet Queen Margaret's not typical that nagging feeling of hunger, which is unpleasant, "companion" of many diets: through balanced ratio of carbohydrate and protein foods and foods with a high fiber diet can be observed without the risk of suffering from a lack of nutrients.

The basic rules of diet Queen Margaret's - replacement of the standard three-time increase in the number of diet meals: dieting, there can be up to five times a day. Prerequisite diet - an increase in the number of the liquid consumed on the day should drink at least two - two and a half liters of pure non-carbonated water or green tea without sugar, which causes the most rapid fat burning and simultaneously prevents too sharp rise in blood sugar levels Blood sugar - a very important indicator   after each meal. This is important not only the amount of liquid, but also the time of its use: it is necessary before a meal to drink a glass of water, but during the meal to wash down the food can not be liquid. In addition, all nine days of the diet Queen Margaret's should be excluded from the diet of sweets and sugar, all pastry and bread, noodles and pasta, drinks. And should limit the use of meat: poultry (eg, boiled white meat chicken without the skin) can be eaten only once a day, with a serving size should not exceed two hundred and fifty grams.

How to diet

Queen Margaret's Diet has three phases, the duration of each of which is exactly three days. In fact, all three phases dietary program developed by Queen Margarita - three separate mono-diet: rice, meat and vegetables.

• Rice mono-diet (the first phase of the diet queen) for three days allowed to use only boiled rice without salt. In the evening, you need to fill in clean, cold water one cup of rice, leaving at night and in the morning add the rice to the boiling water and cook for ten or fifteen minutes. The resulting rice porridge should be consumed in the following order: for breakfast - one cup of porridge, rice and the remaining - in equal portions three or four times during the day. Dinner can be eaten no later than seven o'clock in the evening.
• Chicken mono-diet (the second stage of the diet queen) within three days you must eat only boiled chicken. One kilogram of chicken without skin and fat is necessary to boil and eat equal portions during the day. Dinner can be eaten no later than seven o'clock in the evening.
• Vegetable mono-diet (third phase of the diet queen) at the final stage of the diet you can eat any vegetables - fresh, steamed or cooked in boiling water without salt. The main course of the final three-day diet cycle Marguerite Queen - vegetable salads, which can have four or five times a day (not later than seven o'clock in the evening).

During the nine days of dieting you can successfully get rid of four to six extra kilos. In order to consolidate the results, it is important not to return immediately to the usual diet - the best way to stabilize the achieved weight will be "handling" days, which you can arrange once a week, for one day only eating yogurt.

The principles of good nutrition, formed by Queen Margaret

• food fractional, small portions of 5-6 times a day;
• large amount of fluid in the form of ordinary water, juices and green tea between meals, but without its zapivaniya;
• exclude animal fats, replacing them with vegetable;
• exclude carbohydrate (sweets, baking, etc.), replacing them with carbohydrates, rich in fiber (vegetables, fruits, cereals), which did not immediately break up a long time a source of energy;
• eliminate fried foods, all steamed, boil or stew;
• focuses on "living" foods as raw vegetables and fruits, they should form the basis of the diet, because they contain vitamins and enzymes can improve the metabolic processes;
• morning to start with cereals (buckwheat, oats, rice, millet) - Cereals source of energy for the entire first half of the day;
• proteins the body generally must receive from plant foods (nuts, legumes, cereals, vegetables), but full of animal protein can not be excluded, as it is needed to build red blood cells, and without his presence in the food a person can begin anemia (anemia); meat and fish need to eat once a day, low-fat varieties;
• In no case should not be forced to starve the body - it will only increase the appetite and bring to naught all efforts to drop weight; you need to replace the "wrong" (sausages, chips, soft drinks, white bread) produce "correct" (cereals, nuts, vegetables, fruits, lean meats) and the amount of time they will not be decisive.

All of these principles are fully consistent with the recommendations on nutrition World Health Organization (WHO).

  Galina Romanenko