Diabetes is a condition wherein your blood sugar (glucose) levels are high. One usually develops the condition when their pancreas doesn’t make enough insulin or no insulin at all or when their body doesn’t respond to the insulin that is produced by the pancreas. It is important to manage diabetes because chronic high blood sugar can have severe health consequences such as kidney disease, neuropathy, retinopathy and heart disease among others.
There are different ways to manage diabetes and these include following a diet, working out and sleeping well among others. Following certain tips can also help in diabetes management. Rohan Sehgal shared a video on Instagram wherein he shares how having salad with dal chawal can help to reduce your blood sugar spike.
He says, “Today I am having 150 grams of salad with salt and lemon along with 200 grams of freshly cooked white rice, 200 grams of arhar ki dal and 100 grams of aloo gobi. Altogether about 750 calories. Let’s see what happens.
” A few hours later, he checked his glucose monitor which said that there was a 28mg increase. He adds, “This makes me very happy because when I had the exact same meal but without the salad, my blood sugar levels had increased by 36mg. And 28 and 36 is quite a bit of difference just by having a salad.
” “This means that adding salad to the meal reduced my blood sugar increase by 22% which is not bad and all because I added more fibre to the meal.” Here, take a look at how fibre helps.
