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Sample menu for diabetics and hypertension.

By Mumtaz Khalid Ismail

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There are lot of people who suffer from both diabetics and hypertension. The following sample menus are planned for those who suffer from both these conditions. I had earlier written sample menus for both these conditions separately. Dietary modifications are important component of management of these conditions. Eating rightly depending on ones physical and health conditions can surely reduce his medicine requirement and many times could even get ride off medicine and complications.

A low fat, low sodium and high potassium diet will help to lower high blood pressure and high protein, 40% carbohydrate and 30 - 35 % of the calories as fat is satisfactory for diabetes mellitus. Foods high in saturated fat and cholesterol like liver, meat, organ meat, egg yolk, lobster, crab and prawns also should be avoided in the diet for both these conditions. Poultry with out skin are better than other types of meat. The dietary oils should consist of vegetable oil like corn oil, olive oil, safflower oil and sunflower oil. Fibre rich foods like whole pulses, brown rice, whole wheat bread, chapathi, raw vegetables should be included in the diet. Foods like tomato, watermelon, oranges, sweet lime, apple, bitter gourd, cabbage, spinach, drumstick leaves, bottle gourd, brinjal should be included in the daily diet since they contain low sodium, high potassium, low carbohydrate and high fibre. Avoid baking powder and soda in all the preparations. Avoid salty items like chips, pickles, canned and tinned foodstuff, salted butter and cheese, pappad, sea fish, dried fish, and salted meat. Avoid sugar, glucose, jams, jaggery, honey, sweets, nuts, Horlicks, Bournvita, aerated drinks etc. Avoid fried foods.

Sample Menu for 1800 kcal Diet.

	Diet Plan A (Vegetarian)	Diet Plan B (Non vegetarian)
	Tea / Coffee - 1 cup (with out sugar)	Tea / Coffee - 1 cup (with out sugar)
	Skim Milk - 1 cup Cracked wheat or oats Porridge -1/2 cup	Skim Milk - 1 cup Whole Wheat Bread Egg sandwich - 2 slice and 2 egg white
	Orange - 1	Butter milk - 1 glass
	Rice -1 cup Chapathi - 2 nos Dhal - 1 cup Brinjal sabji - 1 cup Curd - 1/2 cup Salad - A good helping	Chapathi - 3 nos Fish curry - 2 -3 pieces Bitter gourd sabji - 1 cup Curd - 1/2 cup Salad - A good helping
	Tea/ Coffee - 1 cup (with out sugar) Marie biscuit - 2 nos	Tea/ Coffee - 1 cup (with out sugar) Mosambi - 1
	Radish stuffed roti - 2 Sprouts - 1/2 cup Curd - 1/2 cup Salad - A helping	Mong dhal khichadi - 1 cup dhal - 1/2 cup Tindli sabji - 1/2 cup Salad - A helping
	Skim milk - 1 cup	Skim milk - 3/4 cup

Note - 1 chapathi / roti = 40gms
Curd should be made from skim milk.
Salt - 1/2 - 1 teaspoon per day is allowed

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Sample Menu for 2100 kcal Diet.

	Diet Plan A (Vegetarian)	Diet Plan B (Non vegetarian)
	Tea / Coffee - 1 cup (with out sugar)	Tea / Coffee - 1 cup (with out sugar)
	Skim Milk - 1 cup Dhokla - 4 small Green chutney - 2 tsp. Sweet lime - 1	Skim Milk - 1 cup Wheat flakes/ corn flakes - 3/4 cup Papaya - 1/4 piece
	Butter milk - 1 glass	Butter milk - 1 glass
	Rice - 1 cup Jowar roti - 1 Dhal - 1 cup Spinach sabji - 1 cup Curd - 1 cup Salad - A good helping	Veg pulao - 1 cup roti - 2 Chicken - 2 pieces Cabbage sabji - 1 cup Curd - 1/2 cup Salad - A good helping
	Tea/ Coffee - 1 cup (with out sugar) Apple -1	Tea/ Coffee - 1 cup (with out sugar) Blue Grapes - 10 -15
	Chapathi - 2 Dhal - 1 cup Bottle gourd sabji- 1 cup Salad - A good helping	Chapathi - 3 Sprouts or fish - 1/2 cup French beans sabji - 1 cup Salad - A good helping
	Skim milk - 1 cup	Skim milk - 1 cup

These menus are calculated considering 15 ml of oil is used for cooking per day. It is important to remember that these values will change according to the amount of oil is used in cooking.

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