Nutrition and diet with prediabetes: a detailed description

The fundamental point in the therapy of pre-diabetes is not drug treatment, but low-carbohydrate diet with restriction of fat intake. Without proper nutrition, no other measures will help to normalize the pancreas and stabilize the sugar level within normal limits.

Patients with pre-diabetic condition can recommend one of two suitable diets. Diet No. 9 is suitable for those who have weight in the norm, but for people with extra pounds and obese, the doctor will offer to adhere to the requirement of diet No. 8. Between these two diets differ only by the recommended daily intake of calories and carbohydrates: diet No. 9 - up to 2400 kcal, diet number 8 - up to 1600 kcal per day.

In diet No. 8, the consumption of salt (up to 4 g per day) and water (up to 1.5 l) is limited. But vitamin C, iron, calcium and phosphorus patients with excess weight should consume more than people with normal weight.

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What can and what can not?

In order to more easily be guided by the requirements of the dietary table, it is worthwhile to carefully study the information that explains which foods you can and which can not be eaten with pre-diabetes.

So, we list the allowed products with pre-diabetes:

• Bread and other products from rye flour and bran, and also wheat flour of a rough grinding
• Any pasta from coarse wheat varieties
• Vegetable soups and soups based on them
• Okroshka
• Low-fat meat (veal, chicken, rabbit, turkey) - you can cook, stew with vegetables and bake
• Boiled tongue
• Sausages: doctor's boiled and chicken sausages
• Low-fat fish (pollock, walleye, pike, hake, etc.) - boil or bake in the oven
• Fish preservation without the addition of oil (in its own juice or tomato)
• Milk and low-fat dairy products (kefir, cottage cheese, yogurt)
• Curd cheese, prepared without the addition of salt
• Dishes from cereals (buckwheat, pearl barley, oats and barley)
• Rice and wheat porridge (in small quantities)
• Pumpkin, zucchini, zucchini, tomatoes, eggplant, asparagus, Jerusalem artichoke, celery and many other vegetables
• Any kinds of cabbage
• Leaf lettuce and greens
• Some carrots and beets
• Dishes from soy, beans, lentils and peas
• Fresh and baked fruit
• Fruit puree, jelly, mousse without sugar
• Fruit jelly without sugar
• Nuts
• Homemade sauces with milk and tomato
• The gravy to low-fat dishes
• Black and green tea, herbal teas and decoctions, broth of wild rose,
• Sugar-free compotes
• Juices from fresh vegetables
• Baby fruit juices
• Mineral and purified water (better without gas)
• Any vegetable oils (unrefined)

In addition, it is allowed a couple of times a week to eat the first dishes, cooked on a light meat or mushroom broth without fat, low-fat sour cream (1 time per week). Potatoes can be quite a bit and only in boiled or baked form. Butter can be added in small portions to cooked meals.

Now we list the products and dishes forbidden for pre-diabetes:

• Baking from yeast dough with the addition of butter and puff pastry
• Macaroni products from white flour
• Rich meat and mushroom broths, as well as dishes based on them
• Vermicelli soup
• Fatty meat (for example, pork, duck, lamb) is prohibited in any form
• Smoked meat and sausages

• Any canned meat
• Fatty types of fish in any form
• Smoked, dried and salted fish
• Canned fish in oil
• Fish Caviar
• Homemade milk and dairy products of high fat content
• Fat cheese, sour cream with a high percentage of fat, cream
• Sweet dishes from milk
• Hard and brine cheeses
• Fresh and dried grapes (high content of sugar is also noted in dates and bananas)
• Ice cream, jams, jam, creams, sweets
• Semolina and dishes from it
• Instant cereals
• Vegetable preservation
• Ketchup, mayonnaise, shop sauces, spicy seasonings and fatty gravies
• Sweet carbonated drinks
• Grape and banana juice
• Salo, inverted internal fat, smalets
• Margarine

To facilitate the work of the pancreas, it is recommended to switch to a fractional diet (up to 6 times a day with a dose of not more than 200 g). Products from cereals and porridge with pre-diabetes (except rice) is best used in the morning, fruits - in the morning, protein foods - in the lunch and evening.

From the diet, you need to exclude foods and meals, which include fast carbohydrates (honey, sugar, sweet varieties of fruit, flour in / c), convenience foods, fast food products, high-calorie sweeteners. Sweet fruits with prediabetes is better replaced by sweet and sour.

Dried fruits with pre-diabetes are not prohibited products, however, they are not used in large quantities.