Rule 7 : Patient must spend about half an hour or more in some kind of physical exercise where he has to breathe deeply. The physical activity may include playing badminton, brisk walk, jogging or any kind of breathing exercise.
Rule 8
The first thing in the morning : As you get up from the bed, start with chewing 10 leaves of tulsi along with a small piece (size of your nail) of ginger. You must chew it slowly like a mouth exercise holding it in your mouth for 5 mins. The juice of tulsi and ginger, once it reaches intestines work as a signaling agent and stimulate and prepare the pancreas for producing insulin.
Next in the morning : Once you finish with chewing tulsi and ginger, you may consume coconut water. It is the nature’s mineral water. You must understand that the diabetic patients specially the ones who are undergoing medication are often deficient of necessary minerals. Early in the morning,
when the body cell receptors are most active, the coconut water can help to restore the mineral balance in the body.
The Nitric Oxide (NO) breakfast : This can be a very powerful and stimulating breakfast for the diabetic patients. As you know because of the higher amount of blood sugar among the diabetic patients, the inner lining of the blood vessels (endothelial layer) either gets inflammed and sticky or gets clogged, leading to the risk of heart attack and brain stroke. The nitric oxide breakfast helps to produce necessary nitric oxide which improves the health of the endothelial layer, hence clearing the blockage and associated sickness:
How to prepare nitric-oxide breakfast
Ingredients
50 gm sprouts, 50 gm coconut, 20 gm almonds (soaked overnight), large tomato, 1 medium sized beetroot, 1 green chili, few coriander leaves, lemon to taste.
Method
Take beetroot, peel it off and cut it into bite size pieces. Now chop tomato, green chili and coriander finely. Now take a bowl add almonds, sprouts, tomato, beetroot, green chilli. Add lemon to taste.
The quantity of breakfast : As specified in the diet plan (in accordance with HOBS Wheel)
Total Time to consume the breakfast should be around 30 mins.
Mid morning snacks : After 2 to 3 hours of eating breakfast, you have to refill the body with soluble carbohydrates which you will mostly get from fruits.
Here I will encourage you to first check your blood sugar.
Like most of the diabetic patients you may be surprised to see that the blood sugar will be much towards the lower side in comparison to your blood sugar at the similar time on any other day of the past.
This also means that you have to compensate this reduced blood sugar load by adjusting your afternoon
medication. In case of patients on insulin, they may reduce bolus insulin depending upon their glucometer reading. As mid morning snacks you may choose one or two types of citrus fruit roughly around 300 gms. Here it is important to remind you that your blood sugar level depends on three factors :