I want to know why healthy diet important for people with diabetes? Can you please help me to find why healthy diet important for people with diabetes.
Chosen Answer:
A person with diabetes would need to stick to a healthy diet, my friend, because you’re attempting to control your blood glucose levels.
We break down foods that we eat, during the digestive process, into a simple sugar called glucose that gets absorbed through the walls of the intestines into the bloodstream. In diabetic patients this rise in blood glucose levels causes damage to organs, blood vessels, and nerves. Obviously, that’s something that you try to avoid.
Glucose is used by the body’s cells to create energy, which keeps us alive. To be able to do this, glucose needs to be transported into the body’s cells, and to do this it needs the hormone insulin, which is produced by the pancreas to transport the glucose. In diabetics there either isn’t insulin being produced (type 1 diabetes) or the insulin that is being produced can’t be used efficiently (type 2 diabetes).
Eating a healthy diet, that’s low in carbohydrates and trans-fats enables a diabetic person to better control the levels at which their blood glucose rises to. Coupled with medication(s) and exercise, this enables a diabetic to delay/defer complications that would otherwise set in if the diabetes wasn’t controlled.
by: micksmixxx
on: 21st April 11