Recently, the National Health Commission issued the Dietary Guidelines for Adults with diabetes (2023). This guide gives full play to the advantages of modern nutrition and traditional Chinese and western medicine, integrates food and drug substances into a reasonable diet, and helps prevent and improve diabetes. What is the relationship between diabetes and our daily diet? In the face of the increasingly popular diabetes, how do we eat in our daily life to ensure good health? The following two articles will explain how diabetes patients should eat. Diabetic patients often dare not eat these three kinds of food, but unreasonable diet structure will also lead to diabetes. For diabetes patients, they are afraid to eat some food when they mention it. In fact, this is also a mistake. For example, the following three categories of food are typical foods that "dare not eat everyday, but must not eat less". The first kind: staple food can not be less. Even for patients with diabetes, staple food is also a "good helper" rather than a "king of destruction". Without a staple food, there is a big gap in energy. The staple food is the friend of the diabetic, not the enemy. Staple food is the energy base of diabetes patients. Only by eating the right staple food can blood sugar be controlled. But why do you say that? Because if there is no staple food for protection, the calories will mainly come from fat and protein, and many proteins will be burned like firewood, which will not play a nutritional role. In addition, diabetes patients often dare not eat more, which may lead to insufficient protein intake and then be used for energy supply. If this happens for a long time, it will lead to hair loss, bad skin condition, muscle relaxation, decreased immunity and other problems. So, which staple foods are beneficial for blood sugar control? It must be explained to everyone that no food has a direct effect on lowering blood sugar. Food itself has energy, which inevitably leads to an increase in blood sugar during digestion and absorption by the human body. However, some foods increase blood sugar quickly, while some staple foods increase blood sugar slowly, which is more suitable for diabetics. Patients with diabetes can choose staple foods rich in dietary fiber, such as whole grains and beans, and their digestion speed and sugar rise speed are relatively slow. If you are accustomed to eating rice, you can add some ingredients such as red beans, mung beans, kidney beans, oatmeal, buckwheat, etc. to the rice appropriately. This not only slows down the sugar increase rate, but also enriches the nutrition. The second kind: some diabetes patients will consciously reduce drinking water. In their opinion, "more drinking" will cause "more urine". Actually, this is a misunderstanding. The reason why people with diabetes drink too much is that the blood sugar concentration is too high, forcing the body to increase urine output to discharge too much sugar. However, the body has to drink too much water because of too much urine output and too much water loss. This is a self-protection measure for the body. In short, it is "excessive urination" that leads to "excessive drinking", rather than "excessive drinking" that leads to "excessive urination". Understanding the relationship between the two will naturally lead to the misconception of "being afraid of drinking". Diabetes patients should also develop a good habit of regular and quantitative drinking water. For diabetes patients with normal heart and kidney function and no special contraindication, the daily water consumption should not be less than 1500 ml. If the patients with diabetes are in a state of water shortage, their blood sugar may rise significantly, leading to plasma infiltration