Dietary guidelines for patients with high blood sugar: Meat and eggs should be consumed in moderation, and vegetable oil should be used instead.

Dietary Recommendations for People with High Blood Sugar

Limit Meat and Egg Consumption:** While diabetics should avoid sugar, they should also limit their meat intake. Excessive meat consumption can raise blood lipid levels, increasing the risk of coronary heart disease; meat is also high in calories, leading to weight gain. Furthermore, meat can be converted into sugar in the body.

While beef and lamb are generally considered healthy meats, scientific research has found that beef, lamb, and processed meat products increase the risk of diabetes.**

Because meat products are cooked and processed at high temperatures, substances that trigger diabetes, especially type 2 diabetes, are formed. Iron in beef and lamb plays a key role. Researchers have found that the more iron absorbed from beef and lamb, the greater the risk of type 2 diabetes. Surprisingly, there is no correlation between the total amount of iron absorbed, the amount of iron absorbed from non-beef/lamb meat sources, or the amount absorbed through blood transfusions, and the incidence of type 2 diabetes. Researchers currently cannot provide a reasonable explanation for this. Because beef and mutton hold an important place in Western diets, those who enjoy Western food should pay sufficient attention to this.

Diabetic patients can eat one egg daily. If a diabetic patient with hyperlipidemia avoids egg yolks, it is recommended to eat two egg whites, along with two to three ounces of lean meat and one ounce of soy products to provide a good source of protein.

Use vegetable oils for cooking: High-fat diets account for a significant proportion of the risk factors for diabetes; therefore, diabetic patients should try to avoid high-fat foods.

Commonly consumed fatty foods can be divided into two main categories: animal fats, mainly including lard, butter, and mutton fat used in cooking, as well as fats from meat, dairy, and eggs. Except for fish oil, these fats often contain large amounts of saturated fatty acids, which can raise serum cholesterol. Vegetable oils, mainly including sesame oil, rapeseed oil, peanut oil, soybean oil, and corn oil, contain more unsaturated fatty acids, except for coconut oil, which can lower serum cholesterol. Therefore, diabetic patients should use vegetable oils and consume less animal fats when cooking, trying to replace animal fats with vegetable oils as much as possible.

Of course, while vegetable oils can lower serum cholesterol, more is not necessarily better. Unrestricted consumption of large amounts of vegetable oil can lead to weight gain, making diabetes harder to control.

Recent research shows that clarified butter, mustard oil, especially from cold-water fatty fish, and invisible fats (referring to polyunsaturated fatty acids from legumes, grains, vegetables, and seasonings) can effectively prevent and treat diabetes and cardiovascular complications. Therefore, mustard oil and fish oil are among the best choices for oils.