Hunger is one of the most common symptoms of diabetes in the treatment process. According to the normal amount of food to eat, but often easy to be hungry, but dare not eat more, afraid to lead to blood sugar surge, this can be bitter sugar friends.
Why does diabetic patient appear hunger easily? There are two main reasons
1. Hyperglycemia
Due to the absolute or relative deficiency of insulin in diabetics and the effect of osmotic diuresis, although the blood glucose of the human body is high, it can not enter the cells. Therefore, the cells can not get enough energy to stimulate the brain, which leads to the brain to send out the command of demand for sugar from time to time. The patient will often have a "sense of hunger", and the patient may not be really hungry at this time Hunger, no matter how much you eat, there is no cure.
2. Hypoglycemia
The brain, like any other part of the body, needs enough glucose to function properly. If the blood sugar of the human body is low and the brain cells are lack of energy, the brain will send a signal and the human body will feel "hungry". In addition, diabetic patients with hypoglycemia, mild for hunger, dizziness, fatigue, palpitation, etc., serious damage to the central nervous system, leading to coma, and even death.
How can diabetics reduce their hunger?
1. Diet control
Hunger is caused by uncontrolled blood sugar. In order to cure it, blood sugar must be controlled. Diet therapy is the first step to control blood sugar. No matter what type of diabetes patients, they must adhere to diet therapy.
What needs to be made clear here is that the control of diet is not to say that the better the better, but to calculate the total calories required for normal operation of diabetic patients in a day according to the actual situation of diabetic patients, and the total calories of eating can not exceed the standard. If the blind restriction diet, will aggravate the sense of hunger, into a vicious circle.
2. Persistence can overcome it
Hunger is an maladjustment phenomenon in the process of diet therapy, and this kind of maladjustment can be overcome. According to the normal diet treatment program for sugar control, there is a sense of hunger, but there is no hypoglycemia, which proves that the diet program is not wrong, adhere to 2 to 3 weeks, usually can overcome this maladjustment. Don't eat too much as soon as you feel hungry. In this way, "surrender" will easily break the psychological defense line of the patient. If you can't restrain yourself mentally, it will increase the difficulty of sugar control in action.
3. Matching diet
Diabetics can eat more low calorie foods with satiety to delay gastric emptying and reduce hunger, such as some vegetables with stems, or coarse grains, such as lettuce, celery and tomatoes. It should be noted that although these vegetables or coarse grains are good, they can not be eaten with one effort. It is suggested that meat dishes and vegetable dishes, coarse grains and fine grains should be used together to ensure nutritional balance and increase satiety.
4. Chew and swallow slowly
Chewing and swallowing can increase the feeling of fullness. Diabetics can try to eat slowly. In addition, such as vegetables and coarse grains, if not fully chewed, eat too fast or too fast, digestion will increase the burden of the stomach, from the perspective of prevention of gastroparesis, diabetic patients should also pay more attention to chewing slowly.
5. Eat less and eat more
Diabetic patients can increase the daily total food intake from three meals to four or five meals, eat less and more meals, not only to ensure that the calories do not exceed the standard, but also to reduce hunger, but also to prevent hypoglycemia.
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