It is often said that people with diabetes should not eat ginger. Now tell you about the relationship between diabetes and ginger. Most people think that diabetes is the mainstream syndrome of phlegm, dampness, turbidity, heat and blood stasis caused by overeating fat and sweetness. Liu San, an ancient man, pointed out: "If you are thirsty, you will use hot medicine, which is more wrong." It is pointed out that the best way to quench thirst is not to warm up. In the early and middle stage of type 2 diabetes, one of the most common syndromes is intestinal damp-heat syndrome. There are two main points of syndrome differentiation: first, the stool is sticky and smelly; Second, the tongue coating is yellow and thick. Ginger is a warm tonic and belongs to hot medicine. Therefore, based on the idea that people with fever can't take hot medicine, many people think that people with diabetes can't eat ginger. But this is not the case. But modern diabetes is not exactly the same as ancient diabetes. There are two kinds of diabetics in modern times who are prone to sweating. One is excess heat, and the other is qi deficiency. For those with deficiency heat, ginger is used to assist bitter cold, and sweating helps to clear away heat, so patients will feel uncomfortable when sweating. However, if qi deficiency and hyperhidrosis are harmful to healthy qi, ginger should not be used instead of ginger for diabetes with qi deficiency and hyperhidrosis. Therefore, ginger is used as an auxiliary material in many traditional Chinese medicines for treating diabetes. Modern research shows that gingerol is an extract of ginger, and its main components are gingerol and gingerol. Gingerol has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antidiabetic and cardiovascular effects. It has certain effect on relieving diabetic gastroparesis and puncturing gastrointestinal peristalsis. So diabetics can eat ginger properly.
Although diabetes is difficult, you don't have to be overly nervous about your diet. In addition to several kinds of porridge, noodles and thick foods, it is more important for diabetic patients to have a reasonable diet and comprehensive nutrition. At the same time, we need proper exercise, regular lifestyle, rational use of hypoglycemic agents and a happy mood to ensure the stability of blood sugar.
Authoritative interpretation of pharmaceutical affairs network, unauthorized reprint, plagiarism will be investigated. Our country has a large population. From north to south, everyone's eating habits may be different. However, whether in the north or the south, dr. zhang sees more ginger as a condiment in our dishes. Indeed, the consumption of ginger in China is still very large. Although Dr. Zhang doesn't eat ginger directly, I am happy to accept ginger as a seasoning.
What is the composition of ginger? Can I eat? Can it be eaten for a long time? Or which one should I eat? Dr. zhang believes that before answering such questions, we should first know what is the composition of this substance or food.
Ginger is a multi-purpose vegetable which integrates seasoning, food processing raw materials and medicine, and can be divided into two categories: ginger and dried ginger. Dried ginger is obtained by drying ginger to prolong the storage period. Ginger contains protein, lipids, carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins and dietary fiber, but the content is very small. In addition, gingerol and ginger essential oil contained in ginger are the highlights of ginger.
Can't diabetics eat ginger? I don't know who put this forward, is it to attract attention? In clinical work, there is really no such requirement. On the one hand, we usually use ginger as seasoning, so our intake of ginger is very small. On the other hand, even if you eat ginger directly, it is not rich in carbohydrates, so it has not been given much consideration. There is no research on the changes of blood sugar after eating ginger in the literature. Therefore, in this respect, perhaps ginger should not be taboo for diabetics.
But besides, I also want to tell you that ginger is a traditional Chinese medicine. Different Chinese medicines make up different prescriptions, and ginger plays different roles in different prescriptions. If you use ginger as a dose of Chinese medicine, I still suggest you consult a reliable Chinese medicine practitioner.
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It is ok for diabetics to eat ginger as seasoning, but if they eat a lot of ginger, I suggest you consult a reliable Chinese medicine practitioner.
In China, ginger has a long history of food and medicine. It is both a condiment and a Chinese herbal medicine. Its nature is warm and pungent, and it belongs to lung, stomach and spleen meridians. It has the effects of relieving exterior syndrome, stopping vomiting, warming lung and relieving cough, and is often used for spleen and stomach weakness, phlegm and vomiting, disharmony between stomach and qi, cough due to cold phlegm, cold and common cold, and nasal congestion. In terms of nutritional components, ginger contains protein, B vitamins and minerals such as iron, potassium, magnesium, zinc and manganese. But as a condiment, it is usually cut into shredded ginger or sliced ginger, and the real dosage is very small. Few people will eat ginger, so the contribution of ginger to nutrition is actually not great. In addition, ginger also contains some active ingredients such as protease, gingerol and gingerol. The health benefits of these ingredients are still under study, and their value is not clear.
Since ancient times, there has been a proverb in China that "eating radish in winter and ginger in summer is not too much for doctors to prescribe medicine". The concept of ginger treating all diseases is deeply rooted in people's hearts. In many cases, ginger has been endowed with various special effects, such as anti-oxidation, anti-cancer, laxative, sleep-aid, yang-aid, stomach disease treatment, carsickness treatment, sterilization and detoxification. However, few of these effects can stand scientific verification, and the final result is only "possibly effective", and most of them are "possibly effective". For example, a randomized double-blind experiment concluded that ginger can relieve dysmenorrhea in 62% of women, and there was no statistical difference between ibuprofen and mefenamic acid. However, ginger powder or ginger extract is used in the experiment, and ginger contains water. 1 g ginger powder is equivalent to 4 g ginger. Women with dysmenorrhea can try to eat 4 grams of ginger every day to relieve it.
As we all know, for diabetic patients, carbohydrate is an important nutrient that affects blood sugar, and fat is a nutrient that promotes diabetic vascular complications. Let's take a look at the nutrients of ginger, which contains almost no carbohydrates and fat. Therefore, eating ginger usually does not cause blood sugar fluctuation, nor does it promote the occurrence and development of diabetic vascular complications. In addition, animal experiments found that ginger contains gingerol, which has strong antioxidant activity, can delay the digestion and absorption of carbohydrates, help reduce postprandial blood glucose response, and show a certain hypoglycemic effect. However, due to the lack of clinical trial results, the effect on human body is still unclear. However, diabetic patients can't eat ginger, which is really lack of evidence.
In short, ginger is not only a condiment, but also contains protein, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients, and can also be used as medicine. It has the effects of relieving exterior syndrome, dispelling cold, stopping vomiting, warming lung and relieving cough, and has the same origin as medicine and food. However, in life, ginger is only a condiment in most cases, with limited intake and little contribution to nutrition. In addition, ginger has a long history of edible and medicinal use, and has been endowed with many magical effects, but most of these effects have not been scientifically confirmed, and only a few have been confirmed. For example, eating ginger to relieve dysmenorrhea is supported by randomized controlled trials and can be tried. Finally, from the nutritional composition of ginger, eating ginger in diabetic patients will not affect the stability of blood sugar, nor will it promote the development of vascular complications. Animal experiments have found that ginger also helps to stabilize postprandial blood sugar. So there is no scientific basis for saying that diabetics can't eat ginger.
It's not that diabetics can't eat ginger. In fact, as long as their blood sugar is well controlled, nothing is absolutely inedible for diabetics. Even if they eat a candy directly, they can eat it. Of course, for the sake of blood sugar stability, we don't recommend this way of eating.
For ginger, this statement that diabetics can't eat ginger probably comes from some people who think that diabetes is a fever and thirst, and ginger itself is a fever, so eating it is not good for diabetics.
To tell the truth, will eating something do any harm? While looking at the general direction, we should also look at its dosage. Up to now, among diabetics, I have never seen anyone eat ginger as a meal, even if he likes ginger again.
We normal people seldom eat ginger. Ginger is not a chewable fruit. The most common usage is to cook at ordinary times and use it as seasoning. Cutting such a small piece or even a few shredded ginger into vegetables can't be eaten directly. It will be picked out when eating vegetables, so there will be no health impact at all.
So for diabetics, it is not said that ginger can't be eaten, and it can be put when eating and cooking. Of course, if you really don't like the taste, it doesn't make any difference if you don't eat it.
That depends on how you eat it. If you just cut a few slices of ginger as seasoning for cooking, it's still no problem, but it's a bit inappropriate to eat ginger as the main course. Generally speaking, it depends on how much you eat.
There are indeed many friends who think that eating ginger has a health-preserving effect. After all, there is a folk saying that "eat radish in winter and ginger in summer", so you can always see that some people like to eat ginger and steamed bread together. To tell the truth, there is nothing wrong with this regimen itself, but it is not suitable for everyone, especially diabetics.
Chinese medicine believes that diabetes is caused by deficiency of both qi and yin, with internal heat due to yin deficiency, so diabetic patients often show dry and hot constitution, and often have symptoms such as thirst, irritability, hyperhidrosis and constipation. Ginger is slightly warm, and eating it helps fire and hurts yin. In other words, diabetic patients who eat too much ginger will get angry due to yin deficiency, which is not conducive to disease control!
We can simply understand that diabetics who eat ginger are more likely to get angry than ordinary people, and it is not conducive to blood sugar control!
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For diabetics, there are too many aspects to pay attention to in diet. Although these small seasonings such as ginger and garlic are inconspicuous, they are also concerned by diabetic patients.
In fact, studies have shown that gingerol in ginger can promote the increase of fat cells, and fat cells can inhale glucose in the blood, thus lowering the blood sugar level. Ginger may open up a new way to treat diabetes.
Moreover, ginger has the functions of sweating, cooling, relieving fatigue and invigorating stomach and digestion, so diabetics can eat ginger, and it is also possible to occasionally add a few slices to remove fishy smell and taste when cooking. As a condiment or an introduction to some important drugs, moderate consumption has little effect on blood sugar.
But at present, diabetic patients still need to eat ginger in moderation. First, because ginger itself has calories, eating ginger all the time is easy to make patients' blood sugar fluctuate. If diabetic patients have some complications, they should pay more attention.
Therefore, diabetic patients can still eat ginger in moderation, but they must do a good job of daily control, which is the foundation of treatment.
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Why can't diabetics eat ginger? Of course you can eat.
Don't say eat a little as seasoning. Even if you eat it as a dish, there is nothing wrong with it. If you eat less other foods, it will be good for controlling blood sugar, because ginger has little effect on raising blood sugar.
The saying that diabetes can't eat ginger probably comes from a theory of traditional Chinese medicine. There is basically no scientific basis for traditional Chinese medicine and folk sayings about food taboos and taboos, but it is just a manifestation of a stingy man's jealousy when he looks at the rich people eating seaweed but not grapes.
People with diabetes eat the above, first, to see if it will raise blood sugar, which will lead to the peak of blood sugar, so eat less carbohydrates, especially high-sugar foods. The second is to reduce the total calorie intake and avoid weight gain, because obesity is very harmful to diabetes, and diabetic patients should strictly control their weight. Third, pay attention to taking hypoglycemic drugs, such as not drinking alcohol while taking metformin.
Besides these principles, diabetics don't care too much about what they eat. Even if it is a food with a high glycemic index, it is nothing to eat a few mouthfuls, not to eat or not, but to eat the amount.
The saying that diabetics can't eat this and touch that is just a misunderstanding of people who don't want to know too much or have a weak scientific concept.
Ginger, whether as a condiment or a Chinese medicine, has become a necessity of life, and it is difficult to leave ginger in present life. It can be said that Chinese medicine believes that ginger is a treasure, and the rhizome of ginger-dried ginger and ginger suppository-is ginger skin, and Jiang Ye can be used as medicine. Ginger tastes slightly warm and spicy. Return to stomach meridian, spleen meridian and lung meridian. Chinese medicine believes that ginger has the effects of warming and stopping vomiting, relieving exterior syndrome and dispelling cold, warming lung and relieving cough, and detoxifying. Usually, Chinese medicine uses ginger to treat spleen and stomach deficiency cold, wind-cold cold cold, stomach cold vomiting, lung cold cough, and also uses ginger to detoxify fish, shrimp and crabs.
There is a saying that diabetics can't eat ginger. Is it true?/You don't say. We all know that Chinese medicine calls diabetes "diabetes", and its basic pathogenesis is yin deficiency as the basis and dryness as the standard. Therefore, the basic method to treat diabetes is to clear away heat and moisten dryness, nourish yin and promote fluid production. The ginger we mentioned above is slightly warm and spicy. Then ginger is not suitable for treating diabetes, so as not to aggravate dryness and heat.
Traditional Chinese medicine decoction emphasizes the interaction between monarch and minister. Chinese medicine does not mean that ginger is pungent and warm, and diabetics can't eat it. On the contrary, an example shows that ginger has a positive effect on diabetes. According to ancient and modern medical records, a person had diabetes. Liu taught him to put ginger juice indoors with a spoon next to him, and then locked the patient in the room. The patient was so thirsty that he had to drink ginger juice After drinking, his thirst symptoms eased.
So why can warm ginger play a role in moisturizing? The reason is that ginger is pungent and warm, which helps to open phlegm and clear accumulated fluid.
Western medicine believes that ginger is a low-sugar and high-fiber food. Eating ginger for diabetics is not only harmless, but also beneficial to stabilizing blood sugar. There is no clinical data showing that eating ginger will raise blood sugar. On the contrary, ginger contains gingerol, which can accelerate fat metabolism, reduce insulin resistance of diabetic patients and help stabilize blood sugar.
Diabetic patients should have a balanced diet, don't listen to rumors, make a reasonable diet plan, match the energy ratio reasonably, and distribute three meals reasonably.
People are no strangers to diabetes. Some people call diabetes a wealth disease, mainly because with the continuous improvement of living standards and colorful lifestyles, there are more and more diabetic patients, and there is a trend of youthfulness. Some people also call diabetes an immortal cancer, mainly because diabetes is a chronic disease. Despite the rapid progress of medical technology, there is still no cure for diabetes, only to control the blood sugar of diabetic patients and prevent diabetes complicated with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular accidents, diabetic nephropathy and diabetes.
The main measures to prevent and control diabetes blood sugar and complications are diabetes education, diabetes diet therapy and diabetes exercise therapy.
Among them, diet therapy and exercise therapy are the most basic and necessary treatment methods.
Whether diabetics can eat ginger is a part of diet therapy.
People with diabetes really need to avoid eating, so what can't people with diabetes eat? All kinds of sweets and sugary drinks.
Sweet cake, ice cream, etc.
Glucose, sucrose, honey, preserves, etc.
Limit foods high in animal fat and cholesterol, such as animal fat, lard, animal offal and fried foods.
Long-term heavy drinking is prohibited. You can drink alcohol in moderation and limit drinking. For example, liquor should not exceed 30ml per day, light beer should not exceed 380ml, and red wine should not exceed 100 ml.
What can diabetics eat? Coarse rice, noodles and miscellaneous grains such as sorghum, oats, buckwheat, mung beans, peas and broad beans mainly provide sugar.
Low-fat diet, such as eating poultry meat such as fish, chickens, ducks and geese, all kinds of lean meat, edible oil is mainly vegetable oil such as rapeseed oil and corn oil, and eat less animal oil.
Encouraging eating more foods rich in crude fiber can not only delay the absorption of sugar and fat, but also absorb cholesterol in the intestine, which is conducive to lowering blood sugar and blood lipid. Eating foods rich in crude fiber can also increase satiety, promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, reduce consumption per meal and prevent constipation. Foods rich in cellulose include fresh green leafy vegetables and fruits with low sugar content, coarse grains, cereals, beans, bean products, potatoes, yams and sweet potatoes.
Ginger is one of the typical representatives of homology of medicine and food. In China, ginger as a condiment has been deeply rooted in people's hearts. In fact, ginger can also be used as a Chinese herbal medicine to treat diseases. It belongs to drugs for relieving exterior syndrome, stopping sweating, relieving cough, stopping vomiting and detoxifying. It can be used both externally and orally, and is mainly used for treating exogenous cold (manifested as headache, fever, chills, stuffy nose, etc.). ), vomiting, coughing, and rescue fish, crab, Pinellia and other poisoning.
Diabetic patients don't taboo ginger, because ginger contains no carbohydrate, fat and protein. Eating ginger in moderation has little effect on blood sugar, which will not lead to a sudden increase and decrease of blood sugar, that is, it will not lead to a large fluctuation of blood sugar. If diabetic patients are accompanied by gastrointestinal diseases or other stomach diseases, try to eat less or try not to eat too much, so as not to stimulate the stomach and cause stomach discomfort.
Ginger is a condiment often used in daily life. Put some ginger when cooking stew, which can remove fishy smell, improve taste and dispel cold.
People with diabetes can't eat ginger, probably because they think ginger is hot and can dispel cold and sweat, while diabetes is a "thirst quenching" disease, and eating ginger will make them more dehydrated. But this is only an imaginary situation, and there is no scientific basis.
We usually eat ginger, just as a seasoning, cut a few shreds, and the consumption will not be great. No one will gobble up ginger, so a few shredded ginger won't have much effect and won't cause large fluctuations in blood sugar.
For diabetics, there are not so many dietary taboos. The key is to grasp the quantity. Moreover, ginger is a low calorie and low carbohydrate food, not a high glycemic index food. So diabetics can eat ginger.
On the contrary, some research data show that ginger extract has a certain effect on maintaining blood sugar stability and preventing diabetic complications in animal experiments. But this is only found in animal experiments, and whether it is equally useful in humans remains to be further studied and explored. There is no need to eat a lot of ginger for uncertain curative effect.
Although diet control is of great significance to diabetic patients, it is not necessary to be too cautious and master the general principles of diet, otherwise it will increase unnecessary psychological burden and pressure.
In diet, pay attention to the thickness of staple food, eat less polished rice and white flour, mix with a certain amount of whole grains, miscellaneous beans and potatoes, such as rice, oats, red beans, mung beans and black rice, make whole wheat steamed bread with whole wheat flour, replace some staple foods with potatoes, sweet potatoes, purple potatoes and yams, and eat more fresh vegetables in moderation. Fruit is best eaten between meals.
When you eat the staple food, mix it with a certain amount of vegetables and foods rich in protein. Mixed meals can slow down digestion and slow down the rise of blood sugar. Eating vegetables and protein food first and staple food last is also good for blood sugar stability. The daily diet should be less and more meals, which can be divided into several times to avoid a sudden increase in blood sugar.