Month: June 2018

Diabetes and Desserts:

There is a popular misconception about diabetes, ‘Diabetes is caused by eating too much of sugary food’. Though sugary food can impact your blood sugar, they are not the culprits in the development of diabetes. But if you are a diabetic, you need to manage intake of carbohydrates carefully. Since carbohydrates are the reasons for increasing your blood sugar level.

Types of sugar in food

When you are diabetic, your body fails to use insulin correctly or unable to produce any or enough insulin. Some diabetic patients experience both of these issues.

Since insulin enzyme is responsible for helping the movement of sugar from the blood to the body cells, any problem with insulin could cause building up of sugar in your blood.

Foods that are rich in carbohydrate increase the blood sugar level. In order to manage your blood sugar level, you need to moderate the carbohydrate intake.

Sweets are contented with carbohydrates that include sugars, complex carbohydrates, fibre and some ingredients added to enhance the sweetness. Dessert foods, which contain natural fruits, already sweet in nature, have added sugar. Many products will not label the sugar content as sugar; instead label it specifically as dextrose, fructose, lactose, malt extract, sucrose, granular white sugar, honey, glucose, etc. etc. These are easily digestible, high content sugar sources of carbohydrates which can easily raise your blood sugar level.

Artificial sweetner is a synthetic alternative for sugar. But these can affect the taste and flavor of the food. Sometimes do not have any effect once boiled. One should know the exact quantity to add since some artificial sweetners are sweeter than normal sugar.

Sugar alcohols available now are less sweeter than sugar and less in calories too. So its impact on the sugar level raise is comparatively less than normal sugar. Sugar alcohols can cause gastric issues in the digestive system.

Natural sweeteners such as nectars, honey, fruit juices, maple syrup and molasses are often used as an alternative to sugar, has the same effect as the natural sugar in diabetes. Stevia is an exception to this rule. Stevia is a natural extract made from Stevia rebaudiana plant. It is sweeter than sugar but does not raise the blood sugar level.

Roll of ‘Diabetic physico treatment’ in diabetics

Wellcare diabetes hospital at Attoor, near Marthandam, Kanyakumari District, Tamilnadu, South India provides a unique treatment for diabetics. The treatment is partially linked with physical exercise, that stimulates the pancreas gland to generate beta cells that control diabetes. This treatment gradually reverses diabetes to normal is the best ever thing occurs in diabetes health care arena.

Top diabetes hospital in Tamilnadu

Please locate our ‘Wellcare diabetes hospital’ Attoor, near Marthandam, just 40 kms distance from Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram) Kerala and same distance from Nagercoil. Tirunelvel, Kanykumari, Nagercoil, Thuckalay, Tenkasi, Rajapalayam, Virudhunagar, Madurai, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Adoor are nearest cities from our hospital.