Different types of Diabetic diet: Weighed, Unweighed, Caloric Value, Protiens, Vitamins

Types of Diabetic diet

What does the Diabetic Diet aim?

1. We have to provide adequate caloric value and avoiding over-nutrition of diabetic persons.
2. You have to maintain balanced diet in regard to protein and carbohydrate intake.
3. Food intake is being divided into regularly spaced meals of similar size.
4. You have to keep in mind to be constant in your dietary habits from day to day.
   
   
   
5. The food which you take should be high in dietary fiber, which slows glucose absorption and thus smoothes post-prandial glucose level.

What are the Types of diabetic diets?

• Unweighed diet
• Weighed diet

Unweighed diabetic diet

• Diabetes in many newly diagnosed persons, especially obese can be controlled be simple limitation of carbohydrate.
• Forbidden foods: sugar, jam, honey, tinned fruits, sweets, chocolate, glucose drinks, cakes, puddings, thick sauces, rice and alcoholic drinks.
  
  
  
• Foods allowed in moderation: bread of all kind, chapattis made from wheat or millets, plain biscuits, potatoes, peas and baked peas, cereals porridge, all fresh dried fruits, thick soups and milk.
• Foods which you are free to eat: all meat, fish, eggs( not fried),clear soups, tea coffee, vegetables such as cabbage, cauliflower, spinach, pumpkin, brinjal (egg plant), lady’s finger, French beans cucumber, tomato, radish, asparagus, butter and margarine and saccharine for sweetening.

Weighed diet

It is required in nearly all diabetics on insulin or for those treated by diet alone or by oral hypo-glycemic drugs in which un-weighed diet has proved unsatisfactory.

• Total calories: calorie requirements are determined by the person’s activity like sedentary or light working or hard worker.
  Nutritional condition of person sedentary light work hard work
  1. over-nutrition 25 kcal 30 kcal 35 kcal
  2. normal 30 kcal 35 kcal 40 kcal
  3. under-nutrition 35 kcal 40 kcal 45 kcal
• An obese diabetic should diet till body weight is decreased to 5% below ideal weight (1400 calorie). A thin diabetic’s weight should increase by 5% above ideal body weight (2400).
• Carbohydrate: 2-3 g/kg of body weight to start with then increased to ideal level of 250 gm as the persons tolerance improves.
• Protein: 1 g/kg to an adult and 2-3 q/kg to a growing child.
• Fat: the amount should be equal to that necessary to make up the total calories taken predominantly as mono-unsaturated or poly-unsaturated fats.
• Fiber: increased soluble fiber (e.g. dried beans, lentils, peas, oats or barley). Also more whole grain cereals, green leafy vegetables and root vegetables.
• Vitamins and mineral supplements are to be added to the diabetic diet plan.
• Food exchanges: These are cereals, pulses, vegetables, fresh foods, milk and fat.
  Foods within the same group are approximately equivalent in energy and nutrients.

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