Consumption of sugar-free foods are the four principles

If the diet is not a "sweet", the joy of living will be more losses.

Diabetes is often painful. However, as the sweetener, numerous sweet "sugar-free foods for diabetic patients" happy again. Necessary to remind patients that added sweeteners health food does not mean that you can help yourself.

First of all, no sugar or sweeteners food cannot replace medicine.

All patients should be clearly recognized that the vast majority of non-sugar or sugar foods are designed to improve the quality of life, and do not have the effect of hypoglycemic agents, never listen to irresponsible advertising that only eat some healthy food can achieve treatment even cure diabetes. If so give up medical treatment, is extremely dangerous.

Secondly, artificial sweeteners can also have side effects, their safety, scope of application are different.

Patients should be under your own conditions, nutrition guidance for physicians and doctors. Saccharin is the possibility of human cancer have not been completely ruled out, so you should avoid extensive use at a time, and baby food disabled. Currently a lot of chewing gum, candy added xylitol, but recent studies show that eating too much xylitol have elevated blood triglyceride may, at the same time there is a side effect of causing diarrhea, and therefore should be used instead of an overdose.

In addition to xylitol, sorbitol, maltitol, sugar alcohol sweetener intake must also be appropriate, so as not to cause diarrhea and even gastrointestinal dysfunction.

Cooking of aspartame, protein sugar products are harmless high sweetness and extremely low heat energy of the sweetener, but affected by high fever and easy decomposition, makes sweet decline or disappear, so when cooking should be fried vegetables after the extinction.

Once again, sugar-free foods or to calculate the calories.

Market on a large number of sugar-free flour pastry, cakes and other products, edible must note in the daily functioning of diabetic recipes, subtract the sugar free of the staple foods of pastry. Because this type of cake just add sweet taste, itself still in flour production. If you do not add much to eat in moderation cause blood sugar rise, not easy to control. Finally, when you disable generation of hypoglycemia in pursuit of sugar.

Some specifically for diabetics produce added sweetener sweets, you can use to add to the joy of life, but because of the very few calories, hypoglycemia, patients must not eat these candy, but should be immediately eat food or ordinary confectionery.

(Edit: Zheng Yan internships, MD)