Diabetes is a serious disease that affects quality of life and may even shorten a person’s life span. Diabetes decreases the body’s ability to use blood sugar for energy. Diabetics have blood sugar levels that are out of balance and require treatment to be maintained within a normal range. Proper diet that is low in fat and simple sugars and high in fibre and complex carbohydrates can help balance the blood sugar and control weight. Avoid processed sugars, including those in cookies, candies, cakes, ice cream, sodas, honey, chocolate, and desserts. Avoid dried fruit. Choose the diet such that the approximate calories from the various components of the food.
A diabetic can choose from a wide list of fruits that mother nature provides in order to get rid of disturbed diabetes. The following is a list of fruits for diabetic:
- Rose apple.
- Grapefruit
- Powder of rose apple stones.
- Bilva.
- Bananas.
- Oranges.
- Bitter melons.
- Lemons.
- Berries
- Apples, etc
All these fruits are rich in pectin and have a lot of nutritional values. Diabetic patients can wander in garden of nature and pluck any of these nutrition rich fruits in order to control the disease that they have been fighting with various kinds of medications. Apples reduce inflammation, have low sugar levels and have rich water content. Grapefruit lays 25 on the glycaemic index. Oranges are a low fat snack, good in taste and low and burning sugar properties. Bananas have been misinterpreted for having high sugar levels or fattening; instead they are low fat treat which does not raise glucose levels. They also contain potassium which reduces sodium in the body. Do not consume too many bananas but 1 small one is ok in a day. Natural fruits are always better to have rather than indirect consumption or fruit juice.
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