Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Complex Carbohydrates: The Benefits of Fiber in the Diet for Diabetes

Good day friends! Today is another theoretical studies, devoted to diabetes.

Figuratively speaking all carbohydrates - it's sugar. But sugar is sugar strife. Simple carbohydrates are dangerous in diabetes, and some complex carbohydrates, doctors recommend for use. Why is this happening? What complex carbohydrates are shown in diabetes? Try to figure it out.

The importance of simple and complex carbohydrates

Once in the human body foods containing simple carbohydrates, instantly absorbed and carbohydrates themselves quickly transformed into sugar. Having obtained the required amount of sugar, the body begins to store the excess, turning them into fat. As a result of a constant diet, saturated carbohydrates, develop obesity. Unfortunately, most of the foods that people consume, it is simple carbs.

In diabetes the situation is much worse. The body converts simple carbohydrates into glucose, which is very poorly absorbed. Uncontrolled consumption of carbohydrates gives the body a serious failure.

And now look at the complex carbohydrates. They are very nutritious and well satisfy hunger, do not contain much sugar, poorly soluble in water, also slowly digested, sometimes even appear in the body intact.

Complex carbohydrates - a chain of at least three molecules of sugar. These include starch, cellulose (dietary fiber), glycogen, and pectin.

Features fiber

Recent studies have shown that of all the complex carbohydrates in diabetes is the least dangerous fiber. For example, in Europe, when choosing foods, dietary fiber did not even think of carbohydrates. Many popular diets as the basic components used food, abounding in fiber.

Fibrous food helps to reduce blood glucose, so the formation of a healthy diet diabetic should pay special attention to dietary fibers.

Fiber is mainly found in foods of plant origin. You will not find it in meat, poultry, eggs or milk. According to research enough dietary fiber obtained only vegetarians. The average person consumes them in 2-2,5 times less. Scientists have established daily rate of fat should range from 25 to 1940

However, dietary fiber exist unpleasant feature - they can not eat too fast. Otherwise the body would be very difficult to recycle (it's because complex carbohydrates, no matter how how). Fiber can greatly overload the intestines that diabetes is strongly discouraged.

The benefits of dietary fiber in diabetes

Dietary fiber type can be classified into two main groups: soluble and insoluble. Use of soluble fiber is especially helpful in diabetes, because it slows the emptying of the stomach, the digestion of sugar and its conversion into glucose. Soluble fiber reduces the concentration of cholesterol in the blood, which is an excellent prevention of the most dangerous complications of diabetes - cardiovascular disease. Both types of fibers have virtually zero calories.

It is very important to obtain tissue from a variety of products. For example, fiber from whole grains have a positive impact on body mass index and blood pressure. Fiber from vegetables reduce blood pressure and homocysteine levels. But the fruit removes excess tissue from the waist and thighs, besides, also displays the harmful cholesterol.

Of course, it is possible to consume fiber in the form of dietary supplements, but as a rule, their content rather monotonous and does not give such effect, as organic foods.

Patients with diabetes should be careful to use food rich simple carbohydrates, less sugar and fat, to monitor the amount of protein. But complex carbohydrates, particularly foods that contain fiber, which can be regarded as the safest in terms of dietary nutrition.

In future articles I will discuss what purged contain plenty of fiber and are useful in diabetes, stay tuned!

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