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Diabetes

Diabetes means high level of glucose in the blood and low level of insulin to carry it. Diabetes can be cured by doing regular exercises, yoga and slightly changes in your diet. A healthy diet means healthy you. It is important to understand how daily diet routine affects you.

Understand Calorie Intake Per Day

Diabetes patient should measure their calories intake for managing diabetes. According to (NIH), a patient with diabetes should take the following calorie in their regular diet:

Calories Intake for Physically Active Women

About 1200 to 1600 calories a day for small size women and 2000 to 2400 calories per day for medium or large size women who are physically active.

Calories Intake for Physically Inactive Women

About 1200 to 1600 calories a day for small or medium-sized women and 1600 to 2000 calories per day for large size women who are not physically active.

Calories Intake for Physically Active Men

About 2000 to 2400 calories a day for large or medium size men who are physically active.

Calories Intake for Physically Inactive Men

About 1600 to 2000 calories a day for small or medium size men who aren’t physically active.

Food To Control Diabetes

Food is an important source of our energy but our diet routine can aggravate our disease if we don’t understand our daily diet routine. There are three energy provided macro-nutrients for our bodies such as carbohydrates, fats and protein. Let’s understand how our daily diet routine can affect diabetes.

Carbohydrates

Food that we eat, contains carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are the best source of energy in our body as they are converted into glucose after we take our food. Body stores extra glucose or sugar in our liver for next time requirement of our cells, tissues and organ.

Although carbohydrates are important for our body, not in diabetes. Diabetic patients are specially advised for not to eat carbohydrates in regular diet instead of fibers. Some carbohydrates are high in fibers and others are high in sugars or glucose. In diabetes, carbohydrate sources like fruits, vegetables, green vegetables are preferred over fats, and glucose contains carbohydrates.

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