I have a diabetic friend. He wants to eat vegetarian.How to do when everything vegetarian is basically carbs?

Question

He checks his sugar twice a day, is on oral hypoglycaemics, but doesn't need to inject insulin...

Answer 1

You can eat all the vegetables you want... I do. Who told you vegetarian is basically carbs? That's absurd. Many diabetics have gotten off medication completely by switching to a vegetarian diet.
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Answer 2

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Answer 3

Living With Diabetes :
- "The Silent Killer"
> The Challenge of Treatment
- A Disease of the young?
> The Role of Glucose, the Pancreas, and Sugar
> Diabetes Simplified
- How the Bible Can Help Diabetes Sufferers
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There are a lot of healthy protiens & healthy fats in a well-educated vegetarian's diet.

Role of Vegetarian Diet in Health and Disease
- Of Diabetes and Vegeterianism
http://www.bhj.org/books/diets/chap4.htm

The Vegetarian Society
- Beating Diabetes > Recipe Index
http://www.vegsoc.org/cordonvert/recipes2/diabetic.html

The Vegetarian Society
- health matters recipe feature index
-- for slimmers & diabetics
http://www.vegsoc.org/cordonvert/recipes/health.html

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

Well first of all, a diabetic doesn't have to avoid carbs. That's old school and has since been disproved. Just control the carbs and space them out over the day. 6 small meals instead of 3 big ones.

Eat beans, tofu, nuts. Avoid high fat foods and empty calories. Keep white rice, white bread etc controlled and substitute with beans and whole grains. These contain carbs but release them slowly.

And of course, the magical word...exercise.

Answer 6

First of all why don't you learn about vegetarianism before asking a stupid question like that.
Second...vegetarians eat a variety of all three of the food groups....being protein, carbs and vegetables. You should be eating 50% fruits and veggies a day regardless if your a vegetarian. So carbs have nothing to do with vegetarianism. You have to eat all the food groups even if your a vegatarian ..its called non animal portein sources and veggies have almost no carbs but she should still be eating whole wheat carbs.

Answer 7

Your friend would benefit from Diabetic Education from a Nurse Educator if he's interested. In the meantime, he can go to the ADA (American Diabetes Association) website and check out the food facts and exchange tables. Because his disease is so affected by diet, he really needs to become almost expert at carb counts and what he's allowed per day. I sure hope this helps.

Answer 8

you should maintain on with the suggestion of your diabetes educator and eat what they allow you to recognize. i recognize that once i became on insulin interior the previous that I had to eat 5 small foodstuff an afternoon and take 2 images an afternoon and that i became pregnant and that i nonetheless lost weight at this. So i believe that your Diabetic Nurse advised you the right problem. i do not recognize what number grams of carbs she advised you to eat, regardless of the indisputable fact that that's been reported that maximum diabetic sufferers opt to be eating between 30-60mg of carbs in protecting with meal. keep on with the suggestion of your nurse and physician, basically they can make the perfect judgements that you'll keep on with and stay nicely with this disease and help you administration this with you being on insulin. i'm not on insulin, yet i recognize you would possibly want to observe what you eat and typically drugs should be adjusted, yet you won't be able to reduce down on your insulin dosage except your physician promises the say so as that it will be o.k., you want to talk your concerns which includes her or him previously doing something drastic.

Answer 9

Vegetarian is not carbs it is vegetables. He needs to work with someone with a diabetic diet.His Doctor could send or Refer him to a dietitian

Answer 10

Strike a balance between good carbs and better protein.

If your friend is not eating vegetarian because of ethics (slaughtering of animals, etc), then suggest a Lacto-Ovo vegetarian diet or a Pesca-vegetarian diet.

Lacto-Ovo is no meat, but eggs and dairy...Pesca is no meat, but yes to fish.