Dietary therapy of diabetes mellitus

Sokueva Khedi Yusupovna, Ivanova Liudmila Alexandrovna

Diet in diabetes is part of the treatment. Without a diet, compensation for carbohydrate metabolism is impossible. Diabetes diet should be rational and balanced, which will not only achieve the target levels of glycemia, but also prevent chronic complications of diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is among the diseases that are directly related to nutrition. Proper nutrition in diabetes mellitus 2 helps reduce blood sugar levels, reduces the dose of drugs, thereby preventing the development of chronic complications of diabetes. Treatment of diabetes is not possible without dieting, its main goal is to achieve compensation of carbohydrate metabolism by eliminating from the diet of digestible carbohydrates, limiting the consumption of hard-to-absorb carbohydrates, animal fats and taking sugar-lowering drugs, incretin, insulin, which regulate blood sugar levels.

Keywords:diabetes mellitus, diet, glycemia, glycemic index, insulin index.