PARTICIPANTS at this year’s World Diabetes Day, WDD, have advised people living with the disease in the country to eat more of locally manufactured foods as a way of mitigating the problem. In her lecture at a seminar to mark the event at Owerri, an expert, Mrs. Henrietta Uzoagba, told participants that local foods had the tendency to reduce the effect of diabetes and equally sustain one, who is diabetic for as long as he or she wants, provided that the person adheres strictly to the diet control.
Uzoagba mentioned some of the locally based delicacies that fit into the diet balance of the people living with diabetes to include vegetables, bitter leaves, cabbage, cucumber, garden egg, garlic, local (unprocessed or whole grain) rice, unripe plantain, crayfish, snails, ground-nuts and soya beans, among others. She, however, warned that those who are diabetic should form it as a habit to take their breakfast before going out for the day’s activities as refusal to do so could lead to ulcer.
According to her, breakfast was very important to the health of a diabetic. Furthermore, she advised diabetic patients to take a lot of salt and avoid taking honey, soft drinks and any other products manufactured from sugar as such may increase the risks and complicationsarising from such food items.
She also said that diabetic patients should desist from frying red oil when preparing their dishes, just as she warned them against taking lipton tea or coffee whether they have high blood pressure or not, as their health could degenerate rapidly through that. Uzoagba stressed that, to eat adequately and stick to the advice against eating foods that remain inimical to their health would significantly enhance their well-being, pointing out that, it was acceptable to have fibre included in their daily meals.
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