Because diabetics need to control the total calorie intake every day, many people choose vegetarian food to control their blood sugar. Whether this can achieve the goal will be discussed later. Let's talk about the disadvantages of choosing vegetarian food for a long time in order to control sugar.
Meat contains a variety of essential amino acids, of which lysine intake is the most important. Some vegetarian foods also contain plant protein, but the content of lysine in plant protein is usually very small, which can not meet people's normal physiological needs. Long-term adherence to an absolute vegetarian diet will lead to insufficient intake of related nutrients, leading to decreased immunity.
Protein plays an important role in the body. It can help cell generation, promote cell operation and provide heat for the body. Moreover, protein can improve human immunity and is beneficial to brain development. For some developing children, regular vegetarian diet will make the brain development lag behind. In addition, if women are often vegetarian, it is easy to make the body's hormone level abnormal and make menstrual disorders.
In addition, if you are a vegetarian for a long time, it may also cause gallstones and accelerate aging. So let's go back to the question, can vegetarianism really reduce and control sugar?
First of all, we need to make it clear that any food, as long as it is eaten, will increase sugar and will not decrease sugar. In other words, food can't cure diabetes, but can only help lower blood sugar at most.
Foods with high starch content
In daily life, there are many foods containing high starch, such as potatoes, rice and steamed bread. These foods may look sugar-free, but they contain high starch. Once these starch components enter our body, they will be converted into carbohydrates under the action of gastrointestinal digestion, which is equivalent to sugar because it is the main source of sugar; If there are too many starchy foods in the diet, it will inevitably lead to unstable blood sugar in the body.
Soybean milk skin
Bean curd skin is one of the common vegetarian dishes. Every 100g of bean curd skin contains 402 calories, and 100g of rice contains 402 calories 1 16 calories. It can be seen that the heat of tofu skin is very high.
If the two vegetarian dishes mentioned above are eaten together as daily vegetarian dishes and staple foods, the calories will inevitably be "ridiculously high", leading to soaring blood sugar. In addition, vegetarian food itself has a light taste, and a large number of ingredients will be added in the cooking process to enhance the taste of the dishes, which also invisibly increases the calorie intake.
It is important to control blood sugar and diet, but we can't ignore emotions and exercise. Drug treatment is also the key. For diet, we can't generalize. Diabetes patients should pay more attention to the combination of meat and vegetables and control the total amount to control blood sugar.