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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Food to Eat & Avoid for Diabetes

To Avoid at all cost: White Polished Rice, White Sugar, Brown Sugar, glucose and any sugar-made food like Sweets, Cakes, Pastry, Jams, honey, dry-fruits, ice-cream, soda drinks, syrup drinks, etc.

To Reduce: Groundnut, Sweet Potato, Yam, Lotus Root, Onion, Carrot, Lard ( Pig Fat) , Mutton Fat, Cream, Butter, Peanut, Walnut, Sunflower Seed, Egg Yolk, Animal Intestine, Animal Brain.

What to Eat: Course grains like Brown Rice, Buckwheat, Oatmeal, Corn flour, Soybean and Bean product & vegetables. Fish

Diabetes Patient will often experience a drop in the blood sugar. This may be due to skipping of Meals, exercise, etc. When you have a drop in your blood sugar, you will experience numbness of your tongue, giddy, cold, shivering or hungry.
What should you do? Take some simple sugar like Sweet or sweeten drinks will help to increase your blood sugar. Remember always have some sweet with you at all time, just in case.

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糖尿病的饮食禁忌

忌食:白糖、红塘、葡萄糖及糖制甜食,如果糖、糕点、果酱、蜂蜜、蜜饯、冰激凌等。

少食:土豆、山药、芋头、藕、洋葱、胡萝卜、猪油、羊油、奶油、黄、花生、核桃、 葵花子、蛋黄、肝肾、脑。

宜食:粗杂粮如荞麦、燕麦片、玉米面、大豆及豆制品、蔬菜。

糖尿病患者在治疗过程中容易引起低血糖症,当血糖降低的太快便发生了低血糖症。成人型糖尿病患者通常因省略正餐或延迟用餐时间或激烈运动而引发低血糖症。轻微低血糖症的症状包括嘴巴麻痹、皮肤湿冷、胸部有颤动的感觉和饥饿。如何治疗?你只须服用现成的糖类。喝甜的
饮料,例如,澄汁或汽,或吃一块糖,并随身携带糖果,以防万一。


Source from http://www.nhcn.com.cn

Sunday, January 18, 2009

7 Eating Habit to help you lose 1 kg per week



Drink a cup of coffee before breakfast
In USA, Research had proven that by during a cup of coffee 30 mins before breakfast can effectively control the appetite. It also help to increase the metabolism rate.

Increase your Calcium Intake in the Morning
Increase of 600mg of Calcium ( 300mg during Breakfast & Lunch) can help your body to increase the Metabolism rate. A study had already been done on a group of women, those who increase their calcium in their diet had 22% reduction in weight, 61% reduction in Fat.

Drink a cup of Plum Juice before going to Toliet
Plum is helpful to our body. It help our body effectively detox and assist the function of your liver.

Drink more Water

If you like to lose 2kg of your weight, the amount of water you take a day is very important. You have to drink 31.3ml of water for every kg you have. ( for a 50kg women, she have to drink 1.565 litres of water.) Water is the most basic needs to our body and help to control our body temperature. When our body temperature drop, our body will start to store up fats.


Eat some Peanut before meals

Scientists had found that those who eat peanuts before meals can lose 2 times more the weight then someone who don't. If you eat a handful of peanut everyday, you can help you to reduce up to 333 calories of intake.


Drink a spoonful of honey between /before meals
Honey can be absorbed into our bloodstream within 20mins. It can help us to reduce hunger so that we eat lesser during meals.

Drink Oolong Tea

Dring Oolong Tea can help to increase the Metabolism rate. It help our body burn fats faster and better.

Monday, January 12, 2009

Nature experience after Giving Birth

After giving birth , some mother will experience the following and this is perfectly normal. Don't have to worry or even take any medication for it.

1) Feeling Cold and Shiver at times. This is perfectly normal. Drinking some plain water mixed with Brown Sugar will help.

2) Pain at the womb after 1-2 after giving birth. Most mother will experience this especially on her 2nd and above child. This is normal, the pain will be go away in 3-4 days time.

3) Fever to about 38 Degree Celsius 3-4 days after giving birth. This is due to the enlargement of the breast. Body temperature should not exceed 38 Degree Celsius. The body temperature will usually reduce to normal within 24 hours.

4) Sweating especially during and before sleep. Sometime they will sweat so much that the clothes can be wet. This is natural and will recover itself after a few days.

5) Some mother will feel pain at her genitals area. This is common because when the embryo leave the body, it may injure the area. The pain will disappear after a few days. No need to worry.

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