Diabetes mellitus is a problem of all ages and peoples

Today, diabetes is one of the main causes of blindness, renal failure, heart attacks, strokes and amputations of the lower extremities. Most patients suffer from type 2 diabetes, it develops due to inefficient use of insulin by the body.
The main risk factors for developing type 2 diabetes are malnutrition and low physical activity. Therefore, a healthy diet is an important part of preventing diabetes and reducing the risk of complications.
The basic principles of a healthy diet:
Fruits and vegetables
Every day you need to eat at least 500 grams. vegetables and fruits. Limit the use of legumes, boiled potatoes and beets to 1-2 times a week. Eliminate fatty and spicy salads, salted and pickled vegetables, fried potatoes, and chips from the diet.
Cereal products
Choose whole grains and cereals. Limit non-yeast bread, pita bread, unleavened cakes, white rice. Exclude flour products from yeast, butter, puff pastry, semolina and corn grits, pasta.
Sweet, salty
Reduce your sugar intake to 50 gr., And salt to 5 gr. in a day. At the same time, do not forget that these substances are also contained in finished products. Marmalade, fruit jellies, fructose marshmallows, eat marshmallows in small quantities. It is better to exclude honey, jam, jam, sweets, ice cream, ice cream from the diet altogether.
Edible fats
Saturated and trans fats limit. Instead, use dairy and meat products that are low in fat and eggs (up to 3 per week). Eat meat and fish rich broths no more than 1-2 times a week. Exclude cream, fermented baked milk, processed cheeses, sweet curd, margarine and confectionery containing it, spreads, mayonnaise. Use healthy fats, they are found in vegetable oil, for example, olive oil (1-2 tbsp.spoons per day, including salads) and nuts (a handful per day).
A fish
Regularly eat low-fat fish (more than 2 times a week). Limit fried fish, canned fish. Eliminate fatty fish, smoked fish, caviar.
Beverages
We recommend green tea, mineral water without gas, juices (pomegranate, cherry, tomato, carrot). Limit black tea and coffee, alcohol (dry wine no more than 150 ml. Per day). It is better to forget about strong alcohol, beer and sweet kvass, soda, jelly.
As you understand, type 2 diabetes can be prevented. In addition, there are measures to identify and manage this disease, which increase the chance of people with diabetes for a long and happy life.