Q. What is the diet plan for a 55-year-old diabetic male patient?

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Diet prescription is as follows:

1. Early morning: Luke warm water one glass, one teaspoon methi seeds powder or soaked methi (overnight).
2. After half an hour: Tea without sugar or black tea or green tea one cup (without sugar).
3. Breakfast: Upma one plate, one katori skim milk curd or oats with adding vegetables one bowl or sprouts one bowl, one apple.
4. Mid-morning: One apple or guava or papaya four slices or one pomegranate.
5. Lunch: Two to three chapatis, one-kilo vegetable, one-kilo dal or skim milk curd, salad one bowl (cabbage salad or cucumber and tomato salad)
6. Snack: Sprout bhel or boiled chana with adding tomato, onion, cucumber or tea without sugar with two digestive biscuits.
7. Dinner: Daliya with vegetables or two roti, dal one katori, and vegetables one katori.
8. Bedtime: Skim milk without sugar one cup or one glass.

Food to be avoided: Banana, custard apple, chiku, sugar and sugar products, jaggery, bakery products, cheese, rice, spicy and oily food, egg yolk, chicken, and mutton.

Food to be included: Green leafy vegetables, sprouts , dals and legumes, flax seeds, methi seeds, paneer, toffu, egg white, etc. If non-vegetarian, non-vegetarian food item should be included only lunch time with lots of salads.

For more information consult a dietician online --> https://www.icliniq.com/ask-a-doctor-online/dietician

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Priyanka Zade

Experience: 8 + Yrs

Nutritionist

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