Keep Your Blood Glucose under Control

By sticking to a diabetic meal plan, it is possible to keep your blood glucose under control, without bidding adieu to your favorite sweets, desserts and food items forever. There is a very popular misconception that a diabetic meal plan is a completely sugar free diet, but that is not wholly correct. Let me dispel some popular myths surrounding a diabetic meal plan and help you understand the nutritional fundamentals of a diabetic diet.

The main reason why a diabetic patient has to stick to a diabetic meal plan is for keeping a control over the blood sugar levels. When you follow a correct nutritional plan, as charted out by a registered dietician, you can easily manage your blood sugar levels, maintain an ideal weight that is healthy, cut out risks of diet related diseases, heart diseases, strokes, cardiac arrests etc, obesity and you will also be able to meet all your cultural, social, lifestyle and nutritional requirements.

An ideal diabetic meal plan combines together proper levels of carbohydrates, protein and fats to give your body the required amount of nutrition every day; provide essential nutrients, give a burst of energy necessary to perform everyday tasks and help in the release of glucose evenly into the bloodstream every day.

A registered dietician will at first calculate how many calories you need every day and how much calorie should come from each food group and on the basis of these calculations; he or she will tell you which food items you should include in your diabetic meal plan. Another thing that a dietician will take into account is the kind of medications prescribed to you, the timing of those medications, their action, your insulin intake, the lifestyle you lead and your basic nutritional requirement.

In a diabetic meal plan, sixty to fifty percent of the calories should come from carbs, only 30 percent from fats and twenty to ten percent from proteins. Only 10 percent of the calories should come from saturated fats. But it is best to avoid the latter and go for a high fiber diet.