DIETARY CONTROL OF DIABETES MELLITUS

TIMING OF MENU

Breakfast  7am -8:30am

Lunch  1:30-2:30PM

Dinner  6:00-7:30PM

In-between Meals : First  11am-12noon

FOODS TO BE TAKEN AS IN BETWEEN MEALS

• Carrots (2-3 pcs finger-sized)
• Apple (1 small size, costs about 50 naira)
• 1 or half grape fruit orange
• Pawpaw (hard one, 1 cup chopped)
• Watermelon (1 cup chopped)
• Orange (1 small size…costs about 20 naira)
• Walnut (Asala) 4-6 pcs…costs about 50 naira
• Kemos cracker biscuits 2pcs

NORMAL DIET

• Bread (2 slices of normal bread or 3 slices of wheat bread or 1/3 of Senegal bread…costs about 120 naira )
• Cornflakes (3/4 cup…dry portion)
• Swallows: Amala, Semo, Semolina – 1 cup ; Wheat, plantain flour 11/4 cup (1.25 cup)
• Eko (agidi) 1 wrap…costs about 20 naira + 1-2 moimoi (1 wrap + vegetables)
• Guineacorn pap – 1 cup + 1-2 moimoi (1.5-2 cups + milk)
• Unripe plantain – 1 moderate size + vegetable
• Yam 1.5 slices; Water yam 2-3 slices; Irish potatoes 2-3 pcs moderate size

FOODS THAT CAN BE FREELY TAKEN

• Cucumber
• Garden eggs
• All vegetables

FOODS TO BE TAKEN IN MODERATION

• Meat (lean meat)…1-5pcs per week
• Chicken or turkey (remove the skin)
• Fish (scaly fish…dried or fresh fish, stockfish/okporoko, kote, shawa, mackerel)
• Boiled Eggs…remove yolk(1-2 per week)
• Milk (skimmed milk e.g danoslim or marvel, soyabean powdered milk 2 tablespoon levelled/day.
• Tea (lipton, toptea, Eby’s tea, etc)
• Low cholesterol Vegetable oil

FOODS NOT ALLOWED

• Sugar, honey, pies, cake, sausages, Gala & pastries
• Fried foods (akara, dodo, fried meat, fried fish, etc)
• Beverages (milo, bournvita, ovaltine, chocolate drinks, carbonated soft drinks and alcoholic beverages)
• Melon (Egusi) and apon
• Fatty meat & fish

CAUTION !

• No pineapple, sugarcane, mangoes & banana
• No eba, fufu, lafun & iyan
• Do not skip meals!

Exercise at least 3-5 times a week for 30-45 mins .

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