Sugar friends must know: six kinds of vegetables are nutritious and hypoglycemic.

We eat different vegetables every day to supplement vitamins, fiber and so on, so which vegetables are good for people with diabetes? Here are six green vegetables to help lower blood sugar.

Spinach:

The nature is sweet and cold, relieves thirst and moistens dryness, and returns to the lung and stomach meridian. It has the effect of moistening dryness and clearing heat, regulating qi and regulating blood. It is suitable for diabetes mellitus with stuffy chest and diaphragm and epigastric riffraff.

Spinach contains more oxalic acid, and calcium-rich food cooked together, easy to form calcium oxalate, is not conducive to human absorption, but also has adverse effects on the intestines and stomach, should be paid attention to when cooking. It is the best vegetable to assist in the treatment of diabetic thirst.

Celery:

Cool, sweet and pungent, non-toxic; into the lung, stomach, liver meridian, is a high-fiber food, it through intestinal digestion to produce a kind of lignin or intestinal fat substance, this kind of substance is a kind of antioxidant, often eat celery, especially celery leaves, to prevent hypertension, arteriosclerosis and so on are very beneficial, and have auxiliary treatment effect.

Celery is cool and slippery, so the spleen and stomach are deficient and cold, and those with slippery intestines should be careful.

Onion:

S-methylcysteine in onions? It can reduce blood sugar and blood lipids, and it also contains sulfur in onions. Butyric acid, which can play a hypoglycemic role by promoting the use of sugar by cells. Onion also has the effect of reducing blood lipids, reducing blood viscosity and improving atherosclerosis. Regular consumption can prevent the occurrence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular complications of diabetes. American scientists have also found that onions contain prostaglandin A, which can reduce peripheral vascular resistance, lower blood pressure, increase renal blood flow and urine volume, and promote the excretion of sodium and potassium, which is of great help in preventing kidney complications of diabetes.

Food tips: acute infectious diseases should not be eaten; patients with glaucoma and cataracts should not eat too much; in order to avoid the destruction of nutrients, stir-frying should not be heated for too long.

Tomato:

Taste sweet, sour, cool, slightly cold. It can clear heat and quench thirst, nourish yin, cool blood, and return to the liver, stomach and lung meridians. It has the effects of invigorating body and relieving thirst, invigorating stomach and digestion, clearing heat and detoxification, cooling blood and calming liver, tonifying blood and nourishing blood and increasing appetite; reducing blood fat and blood pressure, diuresis and excreting sodium contains vitamin C, rutin, lycopene and fruit acid, which can reduce blood cholesterol and prevent atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease. It also contains a lot of potassium and alkaline minerals, which can promote the excretion of sodium salt in blood, reduce blood pressure, diuresis and detumescence, and play a good auxiliary role in the treatment of hypertension and kidney disease.

Reduce blood pressure in patients who often have gingival bleeding or subcutaneous bleeding, eating tomatoes can help improve symptoms. Suitable for febrile diseases, thirst, loss of appetite, habitual gingival bleeding, anemia, dizziness, palpitation, hypertension, acute and chronic hepatitis, acute and chronic glomerulonephritis, night blindness and myopia.

Note: patients with acute enteritis, bacillary dysentery and active ulcers are not suitable for consumption. Lettuce:

It is rich in nicotinic acid, which is an insulin activator. Regular consumption is helpful for the prevention and treatment of diabetes. Lettuce can stimulate gastrointestinal peristalsis and play an auxiliary role in the treatment of gastroparesis and constipation caused by diabetes. Lettuce contains 27 times more potassium ions than sodium ions, which can promote urination and lower blood pressure.

Food Tip: in order to avoid the loss of a large number of water-soluble vitamins, wash before cutting; lettuce leaves have higher nutritional value than stems and should be eaten together; in order to avoid destroying the ascorbic acid contained in lettuce, copper containers should not be used to store or cook lettuce. Balsam pear:

It is known as "plant insulin". Pharmacological tests found that balsam pear soap contained in balsam pear not only has the effect of similar to insulin, but also can stimulate the release of insulin and has a very obvious hypoglycemic effect. Some people take balsam pear soap orally to treat Ⅱ diabetes. Therefore, the proper intake of balsam pear in patients with diabetes is conducive to the control of blood sugar.

Food tips: patients with chronic enteritis should not eat too much; when eating, it is appropriate to stir-fry quickly, not for a long time of stewing. What do you think of this issue of Diabetes? please leave a comment.

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