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Can you suggest indian diabetic diet for my 24 years old sister who has recently found to have (HBA1

Jhon67

Jhon67

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As her (HBA1C) is 7.50% & Average blood glucose (ABG) is 163.75 mg/dl over past three months. As she has no tyrioad .Her tyriod test figures are (TSH) - 3.24 uIU/ml , (FT3) - 2.90 pg/ML , (FT4) - 1.15 ng/dl .Her weight is 80 Kgs & Height is 5".As she has no other problem & very much confused about diet. Kindly suggest from the dietician. Can you kindly tell me from what kind of diabetes she is suffering from and her daily routine exercise & walk time?
 
HBA1C of 7.50% means that your sister has a fairly controlled diabetes. Include more fibrous content in her food. Meet a doctor for a detailed discussion.
 
Has your sister been prescribed insulin? If so, that may mean she's a Type 1, but presumably her doctor would have told her what Type she is.

She might find the South Asian Health Solution Diet of interest:

 
I'm curious to know what you mean by "Indian diabetic diet." My fiancé (who is not a diabetic) is from south India and she eats the same foods I do (I'm from Texas).

While it is true that some cultures are more/less tolerable to certain foods than others, the same general rules apply to nearly everyone.

My advice is to avoid the non-traditional Indian "cures" that have no conclusive scientific evidence to support their effectiveness. One that comes to mind is bitter melon. I once had a client (who was from Bangladesh) tell me that bitter melon would CURE my type 1 diabetes and she had 30 years experience in the nursing field.

While plenty of people control their diabetes while still eating plenty of carbs, that can also be an area that makes a bad situation even worse. To explain, someone with prediabetes could, in theory, increase their carb intake to a point where they raised their a1c enough to put them in diabetes levels even though their actual insulin resistant may not have increased. Fortunately, many find that also works on reverse and restricting their carb intake often lowers their a1c and potentially reduces their need for medication (but not always).


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Your sister diabetes look like in good condition. Generally she should have to avoid junk, processed and sugar items food. It will better to eat low curb food (Wheat or ragi items) For more details please look on below URL
http://www.desidieter.com/diabetes-diet-plan.html
She should have to do good exercise(like walking) to control the diabetics.

It will be better take advice from some good dietician and diabetic expert doctor in some good hospital.
 
Apparently Basmatti or Patna rice are the best ones for diabetics to use. My mother (T1D) used to boil it, then run it under the cold tap then heat it again with boiling water from the kettle. She was born in Bombay (as it was known then) so it was obviously known way back in the 1940's that this reduced the starch content. Recent studies have now shown this treatment to be effective.

Edit to add: most tropical fruits are high in sugar, even dried fruits such as sultanas, and should be avoided. The use of Ghee is considered to be good for diabetics. And of course, Jalebi is a total NONO.

As with anything we eat, it is advised to do a blood test before a meal, then repeat again some 2 hours after the meal, to determine if anything in the meal should be avoided in future. It becomes a process of elimination. I repeat some meals over time with variations to find out what is in it to spike me.
 
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Hi @Jhon67 The National Health Service here would say your sister needs to lose weight. The NHS Body Mass Indicator says that a 5' 26 year old woman should have a healthy weight of 43 - 58.3kg. At 80kg she would be classified as obese, with a BMI of 34.4.
Being overweight or obese does not necessarily mean becoming diabetic but can be a contributory factor, and people from South Asia have a higher genetic disposition to diabetes.
She needs to limit her food intake, as well as the types of food she is eating. The NHS recommended daily calorie intake for her would be 1551 - 1994 kcal.
It is better for diabetics to avoid sugars and carbohydrates as carbohydrates turn to sugar in our bodies. And exercise will help, walking is probably the easiest, increasing time and distance as she gets fitter.
 
Chandradev819 said:
Hi @Oldvatr,
My dietician has told to not eat Ghee, Pure Milk and Curd. He has told only skimmed Milk and diluted curd can taken.
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Recent scientific studies have shown that a low fat diet is not necessarily healthier for us than a full fat diet. Ghee has less sugar and carbs, so is suitable for those of us using an low carb diet. There is currently a revolution in nutrition that dieticians have not really caught up with, so sometimes the advice they give can actually be harmful for us.

Was your dietician talking about your sisters diet, or yours?
 

In my family no body has diabetes, But I don't know by which mistake, I got diabetic type 1.(i.e sweet poison disease). I love to eat Ghee and Milk. But now I have stooped it
 
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I am Indian, my advise is portion control: eat dahls (lentils) and sabzi more than rice or roti. I use olive oil rather than ghee, I use brown tilda basmati rice or tilda brown basmati rice with quinoa, I have changed the atta to 100% whole meal flour if I can't get this atta I use multigrain atta ( I try not to eat more than 2 roti's in the day and if still hungry eat another small portion of Dahl or sabzi), I don't butter the roti. I also mix sabzi or Dahl in salad or have it as a soup for taking into work. I do eat apple and fruit. I use red onion for making the Malasa base, I also now but only chicken breast and fish from the Indian supermarkets. I use alpro simply plain yoghurt, i do still eat aloo in sabzi or paratha's but again it's portion size. I try to make sure I have plain water when eating and on occasions I wait 30-minutes after a meal to check I am still hungry as I have always been a person who just grazes all day so I am trying hard to stop this. I sometime have a lidl high protein roll instead of roti for a change. I would avoid the high processed sugary Indian sweets, you can make kheer with more milk ( I use soya alpro light milk) making it more with nuts and I add fruit to sweet this instead of honey or sugar.


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1rnold said:
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I am Indian, my advise is portion control: eat dahls (lentils) and sabzi more than rice or roti. I use olive oil rather than ghee, I use brown tilda basmati rice or tilda brown basmati rice with quinoa, I have changed the atta to 100% whole meal flour if I can't get this atta I use multigrain atta ( I try not to eat more than 2 roti's in the day and if still hungry eat another small portion of Dahl or sabzi), I don't butter the roti. I also mix sabzi or Dahl in salad or have it as a soup for taking into work. I do eat apple and fruit. I use red onion for making the Malasa base, I also now but only chicken breast and fish from the Indian supermarkets. I use alpro simply plain yoghurt, i do still eat aloo in sabzi or paratha's but again it's portion size. I try to make sure I have plain water when eating and on occasions I wait 30-minutes after a meal to check I am still hungry as I have always been a person who just grazes all day so I am trying hard to stop this. I sometime have a lidl high protein roll instead of roti for a change. I would avoid the high processed sugary Indian sweets, you can make kheer with more milk ( I use soya alpro light milk) making it more with nuts and I add fruit to sweet this instead of honey or sugar.


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unfortunately I find pulses such as lentils and chickpeas (i,e, Dahl, Tofu), barley, split peas etc spike me as much as rice.
 
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