A While food in general contains many nutrients, it is easier remembering them by separating them into three groups: carbohydrates, proteins and fats.
* Carbohydrates These foods include bread, potatoes, rice, biscuits, sugar, fruits, vegetables and pasta. When digested, carbohydrates provide energy.
* Protein these foods include meat, poultry, fish, eggs, cheese, beans (beans) nuts and other legumes. When digested, proteins are used for body repair processes. Some proteins can also be used for energy production.
* Fats These foods include butter, margarine, oil, cream, bacon and walnuts. When digested, fat is deposited in fat cells, or are used later, if necessary, to produce energy.
His diet plan should contain foods from these three groups, in amounts that promote a good control of their diabetes, as well as provide adequate energy and material with which to repair and maintain the body.
Calories
A calorie is a unit of heat used to express the ability to produce energy of a foodstuff. Your dietitian will calculate how many calories you need every day, and what food group should be obtained. This is done by taking in terms of weight, height, physical activity level, needs for growth (if age is still growing), metabolism, and lifestyle in general. For example, a young and active person who has a normal weight need more calories a person late in life, having inactive or overweight. Remember that if you eat more calories than you need to produce energy, those calories will be stored by the body as fat.
Obesity
If the fact is that you have excess weight, your goal should be to lower it. You can lose weight if you eat fewer calories than you spend to the level normal activity and also increase the amount of exercise you do. Means kilo of fat equals 3500 calories. To lose half a kilo per week, shall Eating 500 calories less per day than you spend (500 calories 7 days = half kilo). If you think this diet is too much for so little weight loss, remember that half a kilo per week will make in a year, you lose 26 kilos. But it must be done continuously. To achieve a healthy weight, need to develop healthy eating habits and to maintain the weight achieved, continue these habits.
See realistic. Make a radical change in life takes time. Record your weight in daily, so you realize when you are making progress and when not. Do not worry if it sometimes takes a step back. Do not blame yourself if you eat more than a day, or if you win a kilo that you thought had gone forever. Try to identify the reason why he lost control, and start again.