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like liver, kidney, brain etc., sweets like pastries, ice-
cream , butter , ghee, fried items like vada, chips,
samosa and alcoholic drinks and carbonated bever-
ages.
Adding extra salt as topping. baking powder, baking
soda, salted chips, pocorns, papad, pickles, dried
fish, canned and salt preserved food, readymade
foods like noodles and fast food. should be avoided
Fenugreek, Garlic, curry leaves, coriander leaves and
seeds, ginger have been proved scintifically for exhib-
iting properties to reduce blood sugar and or choles-
5.
terol Cooking oil should not be used for more than
10-15 ml /day. Preferably use combination of cooking
oils like groundnut, sunflower, ricebran, mustard.
It can be aptly said if we are using nutrition as ther-
apy in cardiodiabetes small change in cooking hab-
its will give good result. So, forget frying foods and
cook healthier by using steam, broil, roast and grill
as alternatives.
In general nutritional recommendation for diabetes
is controlling portion size, limiting consumption of
saturated transfat and amount of carbohydrates to
achieve healthy body weight. The ABC Strategy in the
nutritional therapy will be A Awareness of sugar, B-
Balance of the salt and C Control of the body weight.
and can be achieved definitely by monitoring of the
ABC A1C, Blood Pressure and Cholesterol.
References:

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2. American Diabetic Association guidelines 2016.
3. Nihal Thomas et al , A practical Guideline to diabetes mellitus 7th Edition
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