With the Spring Festival approaching, in addition to delicious food, there are also various drinks for family dinner. Can diabetics drink beverages? Do drinks have an effect on blood sugar? Which drinks are drinkable? The following questions are answered for these problems that plagued diabetic patients. Drinks to drink Diabetic patients can drink some drinks, and some drinks can not be drunk. Some drinks not only do not affect blood sugar, but also are good for health. 1. You can drink your own tea drinks. It is recommended to drink green tea, black tea, white tea, Pu'er tea, chrysanthemum tea and other tea drinks made with water. These teas are generally natural plants, without adding other ingredients, especially without sugar, which will not affect blood sugar. In addition, green tea and Pu 'er tea help to reduce blood sugar and blood fat, and are good products for diabetics. 2. Pure dairy products and soy drinks can be drunk. Pure milk or soybean milk is rich in calcium and protein, which is conducive to calcium supplement. It should be noted that many lactic acid drinks, such as peanut milk juice, milk tea and other mixed drinks, will add sugar, which is easy to cause the rise of blood sugar and promote the loss of bone calcium. Therefore, patients with diabetes must be careful in choosing drinks and not to be confused. 3. Mung bean soup without sugar can be drunk in moderation. Appropriate mung bean soup can relieve the symptoms of polydipsia and polyuria, and is conducive to improving the symptoms of diabetes. However, people who have just taken medicine, especially those taking Chinese herbal medicine, should not drink mung bean soup to avoid affecting the efficacy. 4. Black coffee ("black coffee") without milk and sugar can be drunk. Coffee contains caffeine, niacin and other ingredients beneficial to the human body, which can improve mood and have little effect on blood sugar. However, cappuccino, caramel marduo and other added milk and sugar coffee has a certain effect on blood sugar, it is necessary to calculate the total calories during meals, so that patients with diabetes should drink as appropriate. Non drinkable drinks In order to improve the taste and comfort, most beverages in the market will add some food additives such as sugar, flavor and so on. These are easy to raise blood sugar, and it is harmful to the health of diabetics. For example, every 500ml of coke contains 53 grams of sugar, every 500ml of Sprite contains 56.5 grams of sugar, every 1000ml of 100% pure fruit juice contains 89 grams of sugar, and every 380ml of lactobacillus milk beverage contains 57.76 grams of sugar. The dietary guidelines for Chinese residents (2016) issued by the National Health Commission recommends that the daily intake of sugar by residents should not exceed 50g, preferably less than 25g. More than just diabetic patients, healthy people usually live in a normal diet. When they drink the above drink, they can easily exceed the reasonable daily sugar intake, which is extremely harmful to the human body. In addition, when the human body ingests too much sugar, it will increase the occurrence of dental caries, increase the burden of islets, induce obesity, reduce the high-density lipoprotein cholesterol that protects the heart and resists atherosclerosis, and even increase the burden on the kidney. Can "sugar free drinks" be drunk boldly? Since sugary drinks cannot be drunk, can "sugar free drinks" be safely and boldly drunk? Some diabetics will have such an idea, and the answer is of course negative. These "sugar free" drinks do not add "sucrose", but in order to retain the sweetness of sugar, businesses generally use "sugar substitute" (commonly known as saccharin) instead of seasoning. Scientific research has found that "sugar substitutes" can reduce insulin sensitivity, increase the risk of cancer and promote brain aging. After taking calorie free artificial sugar substitutes, blood glucose and glycosylated hemoglobin increased significantly in healthy people with normal weight and normal metabolic system. A large sample cohort study of nearly 200 thousand people showed that people who drank artificial sweetened beverages daily increased the risk of diabetes by 19%, which was higher than the risk of diabetes with sugar sweetened beverages. Another study of Singaporean adolescents showed that the risk of type 2 diabetes increased by 58% among adolescents who had a "sugar free" label (without sucrose) but with artificial sweeteners and soda beverages, higher than those who drank sugar drinks. In addition, when the human body ingests a large amount of sugar substitutes, the body secretes too much insulin after sensing the sweet signal. Long-term stimulation leads to the decrease of insulin receptor sensitivity, the decrease of fat decomposition and synthesis, leading to obesity or metabolic syndrome. All in all, the premise for diabetics to drink beverages is to drink healthy drinks that do not affect blood sugar. They should not be blinded by "sugar free" beverages. They should always pay attention to monitoring and controlling blood sugar in daily life. Even as a diabetic, you can enjoy the delicacy in your life happily. (outlook new era)