Armenians, just like the representatives of other nationalities, are fond of  eating, especially at New Year. Patients with diabetes should eat like healthy people, told in her interview with NEWS.am Medicine the head of Endocrinology clinic of the University hospital «Muracan» Agajanova Elena. Endocrinologists always recommend healthy and normal food for patients with diabetes, excluding unnecessary fast food, chips, jellies, sweets, etc., everything, that is garbage for our organism. «It is not foreseen by nature, that we have to eat all that», she added, noting, that healthy people should not eat those things either.

According to the doctor, the first type of diabetes that occurs in children, limits practically only the sweets. "All that, of course, is very tasty, but there is no benefit, and the organism can live without it." According to E. Agajanova, people with diabetes should eat meat, dairy products, vegetables, fruits and so on.

«Often people say," How can I live without sweets? If I do not eat chocolate, the brain will stop working." But the quantity of glucose, necessary for the organism, is in vegetables, in grains. Adult people with diabetes eat only products from white flour and consume fatty meal. Especially because most of them have a problem of excess weight, as well as high cholesterol, which adversely affects the vascular wall and can cause clogging of blood vessels, and moreover - stroke and heart attack. This process is called atherosclerosis. Just diabetes and obesity develops it faster and earlier than in healthy people», she noted.

According to the doctor, in New Year, though hard, but it is necessary to self-control. «People with diabetes should not overeat and violate their daily regime. They should eat several times per day, but in small quantities. And never forget their medication; if necessary, they can increase the dose of certain preparations. Alcohol abuse can also harm your health. Everything should be in moderation. 1-2 glasses of wine, a shot of vodka - not more - for the patient with diabetes. On one side the alcohol reduces the blood sugar level at first, but later rises it sharply, and all this is highly undesirable. Alcohol should not be drunk on an empty stomach, and you should try to avoid prolonged feasts», explained the doctor.