Endocrinologist Davide Carvalho warned today not to overeat during the Christmas and end-of-year celebrations, considering it is possible to reverse diabetes.
“My recommendation is not to commit excesses and, as you also don't work, take the opportunity to do a little exercise”, said the doctor in an interview with Lusa regarding World Diabetes Day and the book by British doctor Roy Taylor “A simple guide to reversing type 2 diabetes”, published in Portugal by Porto Editora.
“Although in popular slang it is said that we should have Christmas every day, I would say that Christmas is just one day and, therefore, my suggestion is, even if you have parties at companies, at work, etc., be restrained, because , if you analyze it carefully, what is tradition in our country, which is eating cod, vegetables, legumes, a little potato, is even a diet, in quotation marks, relatively poor, [but] then we have a complement of a dessert that could have “a little” sugar.”
Recommending a Mediterranean diet to control or even help reverse type 2 diabetes, the professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto said that foods such as fruit, vegetables, salad and fish should be favored over meat, rice, potatoes and mass.
“What ends up happening is that these products are relatively more expensive than others, fruit, tomatoes and salad are more expensive, by weight, than rice and pasta”, he explained.
“What happens is that today our standard, despite being in the Mediterranean, is to have a Western diet that encompasses not only Europe but also the United States, with a tendency to eat much more fried food, a tendency to eat much more roasted food, more stewed food. , things with fat”, he maintained.
Davide Carvalho assured that there is a “big problem” with fat consumption during the winter.
“It could be cooking fat, but it could even be eating more cheese, eating butter, eating ham. (…) Then we also have the issue of alcohol. Alcohol also has calories, seven kilocalories for every gram of alcohol and (…) ends up being one of the factors [in the development of diabetes]”, he noted.
“At an early stage it is possible to reverse. And it is possible to reverse it precisely with measures that allow us to lose fat that accumulates (…) in the liver and pancreas””, he highlighted.
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