Two key points for diet for people with high blood sugar: choosing health supplements carefully and enjoying meals.

Dietary Recommendations and Taboos for Patients with Hyperglycemia

Avoid Blindly Trusting Health Products: Nowadays, if someone is diagnosed with diabetes, someone will almost certainly recommend "XX health products" to them. When relatives and friends visit, they almost always bring health products. In people's minds, various health foods and products are ubiquitous, including staple foods for diabetics, candies, beverages, powders, and various capsules and oral liquids. According to statistics, the effects of health foods and products on diabetes can be roughly divided into three categories:

(1) Purely counterfeit and substandard products, whose sales rely entirely on false advertising or improper promotional methods.

(2) Some dietary therapy effects, but the therapeutic effect is not obvious.

(3) Some products are indeed effective, able to lower blood sugar, blood lipids, or blood pressure to a certain extent, or play an auxiliary therapeutic role in enhancing physical fitness and regulating bodily functions.

Therefore, diabetic patients must learn to distinguish between genuine and counterfeit health products of varying quality to avoid harm to their health and finances. At the same time, it's important to recognize that health foods and supplements are not medicines and cannot have a significant blood sugar-lowering effect. Their correct role in diabetes treatment is as an adjunct therapy. Be wary of exaggerated claims made by some merchants to promote their products. Do not be fooled by claims that consuming these health foods eliminates the need for dietary control and exercise, and can completely control diabetes, or even cure it. When choosing health foods and supplements, pay attention to the manufacturer, batch number, and especially the shelf life. Avoid choosing health foods without a manufacturer, batch number, shelf life, or expired expiration date, as these may adversely affect diabetes prevention and treatment.

Dietary Recommendations for Hyperglycemic Patients: Maintaining a pleasant mood during meals is essential. Diabetic patients should not only maintain emotional stability in general but also enjoy meals. A pleasant mood is just as important as nutrition. Studies have found that when people are in a good mood during meals, the secretion of various digestive juices in the body increases significantly, making food taste better and more palatable. This aids in digestion and absorption and helps stabilize blood sugar levels. However, if a person is in a bad mood, it can suppress the appetite center, making food tasteless and significantly reducing appetite. Fluctuating emotions can also excite the sympathetic nervous system, promoting glycogen breakdown and leading to elevated blood sugar levels, which is detrimental to diabetic patients.

Therefore, diabetic patients should maintain a pleasant mood during meals, avoid anger or irritability at the table, try to avoid discussing unpleasant topics, and cultivate healthy eating habits.