The year ends and Tet comes again. Tet is an opportunity for families to gather around a reunion dinner, an opportunity for children far away from home to return to their beloved homes after many days of separation... However, it comes with With the joy of Tet, people with diabetes are constantly worried.

NUTRITIONAL ADVICE

- You should maintain your eating habits as usual, try to make only small changes, maintain regular exercise during the holidays for over 30 minutes a day with an intensity corresponding to brisk walking.

- You should eat a variety of foods, maintain meals on time, fix the amount of food in each meal, increase the amount of green vegetables in meals, eat vegetables first and then eat other foods. Choosing fish, chicken, and tofu will benefit the health of people with diabetes.

- You should limit banh chung, banh tet, and cakes made from flour or starch. A small piece of banh chung (1/8 of banh chung) provides about 250kcal, equal to a full bowl of rice. Just eating 2-3 more pieces a day will increase the energy intake significantly, affecting blood sugar in the body. You should limit drinking alcohol and beer because it can cause high or low blood sugar by preventing glycogen synthesis and affecting liver function.

- Do not eat cakes, candies, jams, soft drinks... mainly simple sugars, very high glycemic index, rich in energy, which will increase the risk of weight gain in overweight and obese people, increasing blood sugar. difficult to control in people with diabetes.