Many diet scemes for Diabetes are based on ingredients readily availble in the USA. Is there any compilation of diatary plan/recipe's for a vetarian in India? No meat/fish. Pehpas egg may be OK. Ptotein can come from milk and legumes of amny types. Also, grains readily available are Rice, Wheat, Jowar/Bajra [ millet] Nachni, Amaranth, Perhaps oats
I am in research on herbal medicine and many persons ask these questions.
Dr Shantram Kane - Pune , India - sgkane@gmail,com
Diabetes diet in India------Avoid potatoes,carrot,beetroot,yellow pumpkin,cocalasia,sweet potatoes and yam.Limit your rice intake.Take plenty of greens like spinach and any vegetable in green.Nothing sweet to your taste buds.Gradually you will get used to it.
Shantaram
The Carbohydrates in Indian vegetarian diet mainly come from Rice and Wheat which are high glycemic foods. If one can completely substitute these grains with Barley, and add Foxtail Millet to the diet the results can be amazing. Generous addition of moong dal, channa dal, kabuli channa, urad dal along with green vegetables excepting potatoes, and some yams can give the variety and remove the boredom of eating. Roti made with equal quantities of flours of Barley, Gram and Foxtail millet has a reasonably low glycemic index of 34.
The name of Foxtail millet in various languages :
Foxtail Millet's names in other languages.aw
awa (~, Japanese), boermanna (Boer's manna,
Afrikaans, South Africa), Borstenhirse (bristle
grass, German), bottle-grass, dari (Turkey),
durra (from Arabic durah, durrah), dukhn (Arabic),
faang haang maa (dog tail straw, Thailand),
fox-tail [German, Hungarian, Italian,
Russian] millet, giers (Afrikaans, South Africa),
fox-tail [Italian] bristle-grass, gal (Persian),
kangni [kdngu, kakun] (Hindi, from kungt~
[kangu], Sanskrit), kaguno (Nepali), khaao
faang (white straw, Thailand), khre (Tibetan,
Nepal), lebelebele (Sotho, South Africa; see
also Sorghum), milho-pain9o (millet-panicum,
Portuguese), millet d'Italie [de oiseaux] (Italian
[bird] millet, France), pigeon-grass, riz allemand
(German rice, France), rdkafarkdt kOles
(fox-tail millet, Hungarian; muhar in old stories),
rumput ekur kuching (cat's tail grass,
Malay Peninsula), s~koi (Malay Peninsula), su
(~; also chi ,~; shu, ~,; liang, ~ grain, food;
and siao mi, JJ~)~, little seed), tana-htil (tana,
grass, hal, rice, Sinhalese, Sri Lanka), ten-nai
[thina, thinai] (small grass, Tamil, India, Sri
Lanka)
In telugu it is " korralu" and in Kannada it is Navane.
Hope this is helpful.
Gopalen
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