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In the case of diabetes there are not standard recommendations concerning nutrition, which can be applied to any person. Each patient should have a personal diet, according to his or her favorite food, ethnic background and culture, other health problems, like high level of cholesterol or high blood pressure, and what changes in their life style they are ready to do.

Firstly, sugar is not totally prohibited but sweets, chocolate or different foods based on sugar have a high calories level and low nutritious value.

Secondly, fats level should be about 30% of the total daily calories amount, in order to reduce the risk of cholesterol growth and cardiac diseases occurrence. You should consume little fat meat, cheese and butter, but more olive oil, vegetal oils or nuts, to contribute to decreasing resistance to insulin. Furthermore, you should eat dairy products without fats, light meat, and you should avoid fats contained by margarine, coconut oil or palm oil, ingredients used in the alimentary industry to make biscuits, cakes and pies.

To continue, salt can be avoided adding less of it in your food or consuming little salt with your meal and checking carefully the labels of different packaged food which contains sodium. Obviously, you should avoid crisps, olives and salted peanuts.

Besides, you should not weigh each piece of food you eat. This was necessary in the past, but it isn’t now. Your diet may match strictly your necessities, you energy consumed during a holiday at home, or during a working day. If you must lose weight, your diet will consist in the absorption of a small amount of calories than it should be normally necessary, so that your body use as a source of energy the fats stored in it. After you attained the ideal weight after this diet, you should increase again the number of calories.

If you are too thin, your diet will consist in the absorption of a higher number of calories than you need during a day, so that your body store this excess and produce more proteins for the muscular mass of your body.

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