The key to managing diabetes is proper diet and exercise. It is important to keep meal times and portions consistent. Excessive calorie intake can lead to weight gain and difficulty in blood sugar control.

Patients taking diabetes medication or insulin should eat three regular meals a day to avoid the risk of hypoglycemia if they skip meals.

Carbohydrate intake regulation is also necessary. Since rice is the main staple in Korean diets, the carbohydrate proportion is high, accounting for 65-70% of the total energy intake.

Diabetic patients should consume about 55-65% of their total energy intake from carbohydrates. It is important to reduce simple sugar intake, consume enough dietary fiber, maintain appropriate fat intake, and eat with less salt. Avoid alcohol consumption.

When eating, nutrients should be consumed in order to prevent rapid increases in blood sugar. Eating vegetables and proteins first helps you feel full quickly, naturally reducing the amount you eat and lowering blood sugar levels.

Furthermore, since vegetables and proteins are digested first, carbohydrates are absorbed relatively slowly. As a result, insulin is secreted more gradually, causing blood sugar levels to rise slowly as well.

It also helps promote the secretion of weight loss hormones used in diabetes treatment.

 

Exercise is also essential for managing diabetes. Exercise burns calories, enhances the effectiveness of dietary therapy, and directly helps lower blood sugar levels.

Exercise can help patients with type 2 diabetes, whose blood sugar levels exceed the normal range, to control their blood glucose. In the case of type 1 diabetes patients, where insulin is not produced by the pancreas, increasing the effectiveness of insulin can reduce the amount of insulin needed.

In addition, exercise also helps reduce the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases such as arteriosclerosis.

Diabetes patients should engage in at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise per week. If daily exercise is difficult, they can increase the duration of exercise each time they work out.

 

However, you should exercise at least three days a week and not skip more than two consecutive days of exercise. It is best to do at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise almost every day.

 

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It is said to be World Diabetes Day.

Diabetes is a disease not only in our country but also worldwide.

It seems to occupy a large part even worldwide.

 

Diabetes management is always difficult.

Both the eating part and the exercising part...

 

Today is World Diabetes Day

Have a day where you reaffirm your resolve once again.