Saturday, February 23, 2013

How To Treat Low Blood Sugar With Diet

By Gino Embrio


The hypoglycemia diet can help the person that suffers from hypoglycemia to maintain the required levels of sugar in their blood. There are many foods that you should avoid and many others that you should take. There are things that you should do and others which you should not.

In order to manage hypoglyemia it is important to maintain a diet. A hypoglycemic diet will include the three main meals with in between meals. For each of the meals it is important that they contain a carbohydrate, a protein and a healthy fat.

The meals should be structured in such a way that the carbohydrate is about 150ml and the protein should approximate the size of your hand. Of course the amount of carbohydrate may vary slightly from one person to another, this is just a guide to how much intake one should have in each meal.

There is however certain carbohydrates and proteins that one should avoid. For instance anything that contains sugar should be avoided. The reason for this is that sugar causes the production of insulin to be release from the pancrease in high quantities hence causing the body to display the symptoms of hypoglycemia. Thus for one to avoid this symptoms one should avoid anything that contains sugar, to do this always check on the packaging for the ingredients of your purchases.

Other foods to avoid include starches that are easy to digest. The reason to avoid this starch is that they also cause insulin to be released in large quantities. This type of starch include white rice, white flour, white pasta.

So as to manage the fluctuation of sugar levels, it is important for a person on a hypoglycemic diet to eat many meals in a day. Three meals in a day will not be enough for a person in this type of diet as the long duration in between meals allows for fluctuation of sugar resulting in hypoglycemia symptoms. Thus in addition to the three meals a day one should have in between meals containing a carbohydrate, a protein and a healthy fat.

Once you have avoided certain foods it is important that you eat each meal with the three types of food that is the carbohydrate, protein and fat. The protein and fat help the carbohydrate digestion to be slowed down.

Proteins are important in a hypoglycemia diet and should be included in each and every meal consumed by a hypoglycemia. The examples protein of include beef and white meat. However milk is not allowed in a hypoglycemia diet. These foods help in the slow digestion of carbohydrates and consequently slow absorption of sugar in the blood hence controlling the level of insulin.

In order for one to minimize on the hypoglycemia symptoms it is good that you actually get a list from a health professional or from sources that deal on the topic of hypoglycemia diet.




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