Calorie Counter: How to Count Your Daily Calorie

written by: Subhash Kandpal; article published: year 2007, month 09;


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In recent times diabetes has become a common problem for people of all ages. Busy with your day to day work and not able to spare time for your health. If you are suffering from diabetes spending few minutes for your body can control and cure diabetes, before it becomes an acute problem.

The best way to control diabetes is to keep a check on your daily calorie intake. Including high caloric food in your daily diet is really harmful for diabetic patient. So how to count your daily calorie intake. The answer is “Calorie counter”.

Calorie counter is easy to operate and electronic calorie counter that can be easily carried in your pocket or in purse. Some of the advantages of using a calorie counter:-

Calorie and other information for large variety of food items.

You can store yours blood glucose reading, medication, insulin, exercise, and meal information in no time. On average information up to 12 months can be stored.

You can easily keep track of your life style goals. Store your average blood sugar, glucose level in blood, insulin report, and other medical reports. By doing so you can keep track of the whether your diabetes control program is meeting your goals.

In no time you can calculate the nutrition content of a recipe.

Using a calorie counter or portable calorie counter is not the only solution to control diabetes. A lot more attention needed on your diet. You have to plan your everyday food intake. Few measures that you can follow:-

  1. Consume fruits and vegetables: - Make sure your diet contains vegetable, fruits, and whole grains. This diet is also a healthier diet. Include fruits in your snacks.

  2. Artificial sweeteners: - Consuming artificial sweeteners in place of sugar is the right way to substitute sugar. Artificial sweeteners are many times sweeter than sugar. So intake of artificial sugar in food reduces the calorie.

  3. Eat more starch: - Studies suggest food rich in fiber and starch is most suitable for diabetes patient. Bread, brown rice, and bran are rich source of fiber. Some of the sources of insoluble fiber are whole grains, wheat bran, whole grains, seeds, nuts, fruits and vegetables.

  4. Eat for healthy heart:- Eat low fat and low sodium cheese. Use skim milk as it has low fat content.

  5. Loss weight and daily exercise: - Every day exercise is a must for diabetes patient. As everyone knows exercise is also good for people not suffering from any diseases.

  6. Avoid:- Avoid rich carbohydrates food like sugar, sweets, honey, jaggery which will increase your blood glucose level.

  7. Protein intake:- Intake less cereals, milk and cheese in your daily diet. Emphasize more on vegetable.

  8. Fats Intake:- Fats should be restricted to around 20-25% of your total calorie intake. If you are consuming meat, cut the fat portion of the meat.

  9. Carbohydrates Intake:- It should constitute around 60-70% of total calorie intake. Carbohydrates food source are barley, wheat and bran.

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