Diabetic Diet Guide: Diabetes Mellitus Is A Metabolic Disorder Characterized by Varying Degrees of
Diabetic Diet Guide: Diabetes Mellitus Is A Metabolic Disorder Characterized by Varying Degrees of
Diabetic Diet Guide: Diabetes Mellitus Is A Metabolic Disorder Characterized by Varying Degrees of
In Diabetes Mellitus, your body is unable to convert blood glucose or sugar into
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Delmar Learning Diabetes Mellitus results in excess sugar in the blood,
which “spill over” into the urine. Normally, the blood sugar
level rises after meal or snack and goes down after and
activity or exercise.
SH – DFSD – 24
Rev. 1 – 05/20/2013
LIST OF FOODS FOR DIABETIC
OTHER FOODS TO BE AVOIDED
FOOD GROUPS RECOMMENDED NOT RECOMMENDED BEVERAGES: Powdered sweetened chocolate drinks, beer and other alcoholic
VEGETABLES ➢ All particularly green ➢ Pickled vegetables beverages
leafy, yellow and rich in
fiber (broccoli, spinach, SUGAR: Whitw/Brown/Muscovado Sugar, Honey, chocolates, molasses, candies,
okra, carots, bean
marmalade, sweetened desserts (leche flan, macapuno, kaong, nata, halaya, yema,
sprouts, cauliflower,
pastillas etc.)
onions, dried beans and
other legumes)
FRUITS ➢ Fresh fruits only, but in ➢ Canned fruits in
controlled amounts heavy syrup like
➢ Drained canned fruits in fruit cocktail, Diet intended for a diabetic patient differs from the regular diet in three ways
light syrup may be used lychees, pyches,
seldom pears, pineapple
➢ Candied fruits Elimination of concentrated sweets
MILK ➢ Low Fat, Non-fat or skim ➢ Condensed milk Consumption of foods at regular intervals
milk ➢ Ice cream, milk Consumption of given amounts and types of food
shakes, sundaes
RICE & SUBSTITUTE ➢ Rice or Brown Rice ➢ Baked products:
➢ Noodles and Pasta Cakes, Cookies,
➢ Plain crackers without Doughnuts, pies,
sugar added pudding, tarts
➢ Oat products like
oatmeal
➢ Corn, tubers like
cassava, camote & gabi
MEAT & ➢ All fish & poultry ➢ Sweetened
SUBSTITUTE ➢ Low fat cheese Processed Foods
➢ Egg whites like Sweet Ham and
➢ Lean meat in controlled Tocino
amounts ➢ Canned meat with
sugar added
FAT ➢ Monounsaturated fats ➢ Saturated fats
such as olive oil, canola coming from meat
oil, cashew and soy sources (lard & The local ampalaya (Momordica Charantia), or bitter melon leaves is effective not
bean oil meats) only in lowering the blood sugar level of diabetic patients, but also in preventing its
➢ Avocado (a good source ➢ Trans-fatty acids rise even after consumption of sugar rich foods.
of monounsaturated like butter
fats)