Most common advice to diabetic patients is to eat roti or chapathi or any wheat products. It is assumed that this will help in the reduction of sugars. Sadly i have hardly seen much help in the matter. Many switch from rice to wheat products and assume they have done the right choice.
Nobody ever think about the servings and end up eating the same amount of servings/number of chapathis Eg.5- 8 Nos. What is very important in diabetes is the kind of carbohydrate eaten or the kind of sugar. Hence eating many chapathis do not reduce in fact can increase sugar levels.
Doctors too ask patients to switch to chapathi. But especially for south indian, rice is the main cereal other than ragi,jowar etc.
Yes rice can be safely eaten so also wheat ie by eating the same servings Eg 3 katoris of rice or 3 chapathis or 1 katori rice plus 2 chapathis in a normal diet. In a low calorie, reducing diet only 2 servings of any cereal is allowed.
One serving of rice is 25 grams of raw, uncooked rice and that of wheat is 25 grams of whole wheat flour from which a single chapathi will be obtained.
Any cereal locally eaten should be eaten in the quantities obtained above.
What so far I have explained from a technical point of view. If I see from a practical point of view, Chapathi can help in portion control. Nobody weighs the quantity of rice( I strongly advise you should atleast know the quantity) but the number of chapathis can be counted to eat the right amount of carbohydrates in each meal.
So do not blindly eat chapathis for sugar control, check how many are you eating.
It also depends on age ..correct..? and there are many donts rather than Do’s in Diabetic Diary ..:)
My father is Diabetic for past 20 years…. he is 60 odd now.. He takes only 2 chappathis and a Dal.. for dinner
Is parathas, Phulka better than Chappathis,He likes Naan (but its plain maida..so no Use..)
Yes definitely Phulkas are much better. He will need to stay away from maida..
hi
i m divya aged about 24 years, and gained lot of weight since 2 months ,
i m 74kgs and i seriously want to loose weight . please help me in this matter as wat food i can eat , any diets, yoga, which ll help me faster, please let me know i m worried
Can you tell me your height too..?
eating pulaka(Chapati without oil) is good for decreasing weigh instead of rice in afternoon
hi sanjana,
this is rekha, i am 26 and a south indian we are more used to rice dishes,recently i am diagnosed with polycystic ovary, so i am controlling to stop eating sweets,rice and junk,instead i am having chapathi ,fruits and yogurt,i am planning for kids,so doctors advised me to loose weight,which will benefit my health,i am not diabetic but they told me to control insulin levels as for pcos people its high,can u suggest me the best diet to loose weight with pcos please,,
thanks rekha.
Dear Sanjana, I am 60 yrs,I take one chappati
half katori of rice , dal and veg. I want to know if rice is more digestable or chappati. As since 15 days I have started half chappati and increased quantity of rice. We r less eater. Regards, Shobha sharma
I have Diabetics- My sugar level after fasting is always above 150 what are the foods i should eat . Please suggest and what timings. I am taking Metformin 500mg twice daily. Eating chapatis without oil three times.what other foods can i eat.
Can you suggest the right amount of foods I should have and how many servings and how to reduce the sugar level.
You can consult me online once my online consulting starts….
my name Hien Tran. I am 46 year old. I get diabetic 12 year and would like to ask
can i eating wheat and whose grain rice ?
and why i get loose weigh a lot ?
from 140pl and now down to 115pl
i want to gain weigh little bit
Do you have any way to help me to gain weigh ?
Thank and appreciate for help
Hien Tran
hey doctor, my urine is attracted with ants from many last days nd i also drink water after every 30 minutes about 2 glasses ,nd also often go for a urine many times a day. nd i have 97 kg weight nd 5feet 9inches height. i luv to take liquid instead of taking chapati’s.and eat more rice den chapati’s.my age is around 21.5 years
Hi Sumit,
You need to get your blood sugars checked immediately and you show symptoms of diabetes such frequent thirst, frequent urination etc. Start treatment immediately.
HI,
My husband is newly diagnosed diabeties pre lunch-140 and post luch-268..he was a epeleptic patient 7yrs ago still on encorate 2 times a day and epsolin 1 in the morning and 2 in the night. Dr has given metaforim 500 1in the morning pls help..
Regards
tz
Dear Sanjana,
I am now 12 weeks pregnant (Second pregnancy). During last pregnancy I was diagnosed with GDM around the same no of weeks and i started taking insulins around 13-14 weeks (Started with 4 units initially and went on upto 76 units upto delivery with constant check-ups). After delivery my sugar levels were normal.
This time also I am diagnosed with diabetes and have started with insulin for thepast 1 week. This time my diabetician has started at a higher dose (22 units split as 4 before breakfast, 10 before lunch and 8 before dinner.) My diet mostly contains foods like ragi/wheat dosa/ oats/ broken wheat (Bansi Rava) upma/ cucumber salads/ chappathis.
For lunch I take 2 rotis with some dal or vegetables (mostly lunch ordered from hotel as I work in Dubai and don’t take lunch to office). For the past 2 days I have been testing my sugar levels at office and both the days after taking 2 chapathis and dal my readings are around 180 for 1 hr after meal and around 170 for 2 hrs after meal (even after taking 10 units of insulin before lunch- Before lunch sugar level have been between 75-90 both the days). My only doubt is that since I order from outside I guess the rotis are made of maida. Could this be the reason for increase in sugar level after lunch?
Please advise me a better diet plan (Iam a vegetarian) for the rest of my pregnancy.
Many thanks in advance.
Nithya,
I was reading this link a few days back. Thought I’d share.
http://spicesnaroma.blogspot.com/2011/05/south-beach-diet-and-bok-choy-shrimp.html
you may want to make rotis of 100% whole wheat. Where are you situated ? I could help with some better info based on that.
Try eating the rotis and then take a 20 min walk. Else you may need to make rotis with 100% whole wheat.
Dear Sanjana,
Thanks for the link. That gave a lot of motivation. I am already trying to get good recipes of food that could keep my sugar levels at control.
I stay in Dubai. My workplace is about 1hr drive from home. And I leave from home at 6.30 in the morning and reach back at around 7.30 in the evening.
Since my company has a big warehouse for our stocks, I usually go for a walk around the warehouse for about 15-20 mins everyday after finishing my lunch. Started this just recently. Hope this will help a bit.
Now, I have planned to bring wheat chappathis from home and then check my levels. Keeping my fingers crossed that things would improve. Please suggest from your side as well about a better diet plan for me.
Cheers!
Hi Nithya. It was me (a reader) Sonia who responded although I would wait for a response from the actual ‘ Sanjana’
Sorry. Just wanted to pitch in with what another lady had to share. you should get 100% whole what somewhere (in an organic store) or something like that. The flour will be coarse. Not fine at all. Rotis will be a little firm and will not puff up as much as the Indian flour. There are many things you can do whole grain idlis (as Sanjana suggested in one of her articles). Brown rice dosa, Quinoa-Oats dosa. Let me know if you need me to share the links.
Hi am 22, male and my height is 5 ft 9 in and i weigh 64 kg. I don’t eat dinner so what can be my diet plan. I love wheat rotis with one jam and natural cream from Cow’s whole milk. how many can i eat a day to maintain my weight.