Type 1 or 2 diabetes mellitus is a serious illness. Its severity lies in the lifelong support of the general condition and the observance of the diet.
When diabetes is not always respected a certain diet, so often there are complications. In order to prevent these complications, it is necessary for a diabetic to consult a doctor about the list of permitted products.
Juices with diabetes
To date, there is a fairly large selection of different juices, but is not all useful for diabetics .The most common drinks for diabetes are juices such as:
- cranberry;
- blueberry;
- lemon;
- pomegranate;
- cucumber;
- tomato and others.
Let's talk about tomato and pomegranate juice.
Tomato juice for type 1 and type 2 diabetes
This thick juice of juice is an "amateur" drink. Especially his dislike of children. However, this juice is great for those who suffer from type 1 or 2 diabetes:
- It includes vitamins of the group. B, A, K, E, PP and C. All of them perfectly affect the body as a whole, strengthen the vascular walls, nerve fibers.
- Amber and malic acids, which are sufficient in tomato juice, have a beneficial effect on the metabolism of cells, strengthens the capillaries of , improves tissue respiration.
- Tomato is rich in protein and fat, and its caloricity is zero. This is beneficial to its assimilation in the human body, a patient with type 1 or type 2 diabetes.
- Tomato is also rich in mineral composition - zinc, calcium, potassium, cobalt, copper, manganese, iron, iodine, chrome, lead and others.
With such a huge amount of useful substances, not every product or vegetable can boast. Due to such a huge variety of useful substances, tomato:
- dilutes blood;
- reduces platelet aggregation, which improves blood circulation, and thus reduces complications in diabetes mellitus - neuropathy and angiopathy .
Other useful properties of tomato juice
This juice is often recommended by cardiologists to people with a sick heart, as its composition includes a certain amount of vitamin K, which has a beneficial effect on the heart muscle. And therefore, the constant use of the drink reduces the risk of developing atherosclerosis, angina pectoris, heart attack, stroke .With the development of anemia, tomato will perfectly help to replace lost iron with the body.
- Everyone knows that serotonin is the mediator of "joy" for a person. It promotes muscle and psychological relaxation, which leads to an increase in mood and a decrease in nervous tension, so it is good to use tomato in stressful situations.
- The same tomato is used for gastritis and ulcers with low acidity. It promotes an increase in gastrin and HCL, which normalizes acidity. In addition to all these properties, it has antioxidant and antibacterial properties that positively affects people with low immunity : improves vision, cleanses the intestines.
- Recently, science has confirmed another property of this vegetable - anti-cancer effect. In the tomato, leucopene was found. This substance helps to inhibit the reproduction of cancer cells, and prevents the development of cancer of the stomach, lungs, liver, uterus, ovary and other organs.
Contraindications to the use of tomato juice
There are no special contraindications to tomato. Do not use it for gastritis and ulcers with high acidity, cholecystitis, gallstones, pancreatitis and poisoning. With these diseases, the condition can be aggravated by the action of tomato juice.
You need to know with which products you can combine tomato, and with which it is not worth:
- tomato is harmful to mix with products rich in starch, as this can contribute to the development of stones in the bladder and in the kidneys;
- it is better not to salt tomato , as it reduces its useful properties, but for that you can add dill, which only improves the useful qualities of this juice;
- freshly squeezed juice in most cases leads to diarrhea, so do not put on it in large quantities;
- unripened tomatoes in their composition have solanine, which is poisonous to the human body;
- children must dilute the juice with water, because for their small organism this juice is "heavy".Up to a year is not recommended to give babies such juices;
Pomegranate juice and diabetes mellitus
Pomegranate is one of the first fruits that has been used by doctors to treat their patients. It includes many:
- trace elements;
- vitamins;
- minerals;
- is amber and citric acid, which strengthens the walls of the vessels.
The fruit improves blood circulation and prevents the development of atherosclerosis. As well as tomato, pomegranate has antioxidant properties, it is:
- helps to prevent cell damage;
- is a good anticancer protection;
- increases immunity;
- increases the strength of the patient with diabetes mellitus;
- prevents infectious complications.
Doctors advise to drink sick pomegranate drink with severe anemia. This fruit cleans well the blood, reduces the amount of cholesterol and helps increase hemoglobin.
This juice also has harmful qualities:
- erases the enamel on the teeth;
- irritates the gastric mucosa, therefore it is contraindicated for gastritis, pancreatitis.
A pomegranate drink can be drunk, as the concentrated drink develops the side effects described above. Therefore, when buying, you need to know exactly the concentration of juice in the package.
Conclusion
In type 1 and type 2 diabetes, except for carbon, lipid and protein metabolism is disrupted. Subsequently, this leads to angiopathy, neuropathy. It is quite difficult for people with such a disease to adhere to the right food for them, but this can be done if you know what vegetables and fruits to consume in large quantities.
Tomato juice is one of the few that has all vitamins, minerals, trace elements. This drink is for diabetics 1 and 2 of the type "elixir" , which helps their body to make up for all the losses during the disease.
