Dr. Clotilde Vázquez, head of the Endocrinology and Nutrition Section of the Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid, is one of the women who knows more about nutrition and diabetes in Spain.
With all the forcefulness of the world in a recent encounter that we had with it confessed that there is no diet for diabetes.
Any food plan that is proposed in which food is restricted, from the professional point of view it is not justified.Diabetes is very heterogeneous with which there is no single diabetes diet, but many coupled to the patient.
It is well known that food plays a key role in the control of diabetes.Professionals such as Dr. Vázquez are very strict and prefer instead of talking about diabetes diet, talking about food patterns.
That is to say plans where the amounts are regulated and where the presence of food is varied and complete.The allusion to the best food pattern that a person with diabetes needs is medituine cuisine.
Once again for its variety, for their references to the fresh products of the earth and the sea, for its load of protein, cereals, carbohydrates or fats, as well as its ways of being cooked, the best food pattern would be theMediterranean.It is very advisable and in the words of Dr. Vázquez distrusting any diabetes diet.
Food environments
In addition to having this clear premise, the absence of a diabetes diet, we have to take into account the environment in which we move.For Clotilde Vázquez, human beings co-evolve with our nature.
The people who live in the United States do not have the same food pattern as those who do it in India.If we separate from our traditions, from what our ancestors have made the problems related to food appear.
This is the main cause that justifies the increase in cases of diabetes in Asian countries as explained by the doctor herself.
The future of nutrition
If we look a little further, in the next few years we will hear a lot about nutrigenetics, especially when we do it for diabetes diet.
The future will go through the use of general food patterns such as the Mediterranean diet, but with the particularities of each person.Particularities that will be extracted from the study of our genetic map.
In such a way that the diet is much more tight and effective depending on how our genetics process food.Although it is evident that fruits benefit the health of people, there will be some certain ones that benefit more or harm depending on that genetic map.
It is the nutrigenetic so -called, a future full of possibilities for then, to elaborate a diet for diabetes adjusted to each person.
Here you can see the video in which the doctor explains in more detail: