Help diabetics enjoy the holidays

5 safe tips for diabetics to enjoy the holidays

The holidays are a time to gather with family and friends. The focus on eating and visiting during this time can be stressful, especially for people with diabetes. However, there are ways for people with diabetes to enjoy the holidays with their loved ones and feel most comfortable.

Nutritionist Toby Amidor, a member of the American Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, shares five tips to help diabetics feel their best during the holidays, according to the health website Eating Well (USA).

1. Use the "plate" trick for diabetes

The holidays are a time to gather with family and friends. The focus on eating and visiting during this time can be stressful, especially for people with diabetes.

One of the easiest ways is to follow the American Diabetes Association's "plate method," which allows people with diabetes to comfortably manage their food portions without having to measure them. Here's how:

• Fill half your plate with low-carb vegetables like green beans, broccoli, cauliflower or salad.
• ¼ of the plate is protein like fish or chicken.
• ¼ of the plate should be starchy foods like whole grains, fruit or sweet potatoes.

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Spicy grapefruit peel jam - unique flavor for Tet

Grapefruit peel jam has a crunchy, slightly spicy, and spicy taste, containing many essential oils, vitamin C and healthy compounds, helping to increase resistance and improve digestion.

Specialist Doctor 2 Huynh Tan Vu (Day Treatment Unit, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City - Branch 3), said that jam is an indispensable dish during the traditional Tet holiday of Vietnamese people. No matter how many years have passed, the sweet and fragrant taste of Tet jam is always deeply imprinted in the mind of every Vietnamese person.

With the natural colors of fruits and vegetables, each type of jam brings different sour, spicy, sweet, and rich flavors, symbolizing the five colors in the Five Elements of heaven and earth, which support and create conditions for all things to grow. A type of jam that is often favored by people on Tet holiday in recent years is grapefruit peel jam, which is both delicious and beneficial to health.

Grapefruit is known as a food rich in nutrients and vitamins. But most people only care about the grapefruit segments inside, few people know the benefits of the grapefruit peel.

Grapefruit peel contains coumarin, carotene and essential oils. It also contains pectin and a little limonin. Here are some of the effects of grapefruit peel jam.

Grapefruit peel contains coumarin, carotene and essential oils.

Strengthen resistance

Grapefruit peel contains a lot of vitamin C, which helps improve the immune system and prevent colds and flu. Eating grapefruit peel jam can maximize resistance and help stabilize health during the first days of the new year.

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Heart disease: Tips to protect yourself and your family during the holidays

Tet is a time filled with joy with loved ones. However, it can also be a time when the risk of heart attack and cardiac events increases. Many studies have shown that heart attacks occur more frequently during the New Year.

Enjoy the joy of the New Year in moderation, avoid unnecessary risks and listen to your body, you will still have a wonderful, meaningful, reunited and happy New Year, according to the lifestyle news site Bridge Guys.

Why do heart attacks increase during the holidays?

Tet can also be a time when the risk of heart attacks and cardiac events increases.

Several factors contribute to an increase in heart attacks and cardiac events during the holiday season:

Stress. The holidays often bring emotional and social stressors such as finances, family issues, loneliness, missing loved ones, traveling, and more. This stress causes inflammation and constricts blood vessels, which can lead to a heart attack.

Overeating. Large holiday meals and heavy drinking add stress to the heart.

Lack of exercise. With heavy meals, parties and cold weather, many people exercise less during the holidays. This affects heart health and increases risk factors.

Delay in seeking medical care. People often delay seeking care during the holidays. This results in them suffering with symptoms longer before getting treatment.

Statistics around the world show that the number of heart attacks increases by 21% on New Year's Eve and 17% on New Year's Day, according to Bridge Guys.

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New day with health news , wishing you a new year full of health, peace, prosperity, and all the best.

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