Deviv Nutrition

Deviv Nutrition Services is relocating to Ibadan💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃

Our services remain the same.
Fruit delivery for your meetings, seminars and events.

Diabetes/ weight loss consultation!!!

Healthy eating pattern is paramount to sound health throughout life.

What are you feeding your body?

Dietary Management of Type 2 Diabetes

*Portion Size*
This is very essential if you must have a hold on your blood sugar level.
Portion size is everything pertaining to your meal. There are several ways to go about portion sizes. It ranges from carbohydrates counting to simple tools that can be used to estimate what your portion size should be.
Note: if you are on insulin, it is essential to go for carbohydrates counting and match your meal with your dosage.
But if you are not on insulin or medication that increases insulin secretion then the following may be very helpful but if you want to be very accurate and ensure that what you eat matches up with your lifestyle maybe very active, active or sedentary, consult your dietitian.
But the following methods are also very helpful, trust me😁 .
*For your carbohydrates*
The size of your carb should not be bigger than your own fist.

*For protein*
This should be the size and thickness of your palm. Somebody may say, woow its very big. Well, remember I told you that insulin is a protein so eating enough protein helps in the uptake of blood sugar.
Now this may not necessarily be your whole meat/ fish, it just means that while you may not be able to afford to eat that size of protein per meal. You can include other source of protein like crayfish, soya milk, locust beans, liver etc alongside your fish or meat. And if want to eat meat please🙏🏾 let it be a lean meat (without fat) or birds like chicken without skin remember I told you fat may interfere with glucose uptake.

*For fat*
For each of your meal, your fat/ oil should not be more than the size of your thumb. Someone says what if I want to prepare soup that I will eat for about 3 days. Its simple, estimate the number of times you are likely to eat it per day multiply by the number of days the soup may last.

*DSMES MODEL*
Diabetes Self Management Education and Support.
This is a model that is recommended to assist with implementing and sustaining skills and behaviours needed for ongoing self management.
This is to ensure that diabetic patients have the right knowledge to manage their diabetes and also have the adequate support from medical team, family and caregivers.

I am sure we have some caregivers here, see to help your relative improve his/her blood sugar you must support them adequately.

Don't cook their food separately, choose positive, strength based words and phrases, avoid judgmental words because the impact language has on building therapeutic relationship is enormous. Don't say " you cannot eat what we are eating because you are diabetic," I tell you it has a psychological effect on them.

All foods contain carbohydrates have sugar so don't make life boring for them. Let them eat freely, the only thing is they must know the quantity adequate for them, so ask your dietitian😘

Much love
Deviv Nutrition

Hypoglycemia
This is when your blood glucose levels is lower than 70mg/dl, however, this may be a bit higher for children and the elderly.
If you are on metformin, you are not likely to have hypoglycemia. While we do not want you to have hyperglycemia, we do not want to go too low that you end up being "hypo". Hypoglycemia can as well result in serious complications brain damage for children, weakness, seizure and death.
Similarly
1. Mismatching of insulin/drug with food may cause hypoglycemia: if you have high dosage compared to your meal, it will drain everything off resulting in hypoglycemia.
Also, if you are on insulin or insulin secretagogues and you have a strenuous exercise, you could go hypo.
So, make sure your food is matched with your lifestyle and medication to avoid hypoglycemia.

Stay tuned....

Let's talk about hyperglycemia in Diabetes

Sometimes you check you blood sugar level and you find it is high.

Note: blood sugar is high when the fasting blood glucose level is above130mg/dl usually before breakfast or it is above 180mg/dl 1-2hours after a meal.

However, your endocrinologist or doctor should determine what your normal blood glucose level should be because factors like age, pregnancy etc may influence what your normal blood glucose level should be.

Hyperglycemia can lead to serious complications like heart problems, nerve problem, kidney damage, or eye problem. So, we want to prevent hyperglycemia by all means.

Hyperglycemia could be caused by:
1. Mismatching of insulin/ drug with your food: let's say you are on a rapid acting insulin like lispro or short acting insulin.
The rapid insulin peaks at about an hour while short acting peaks between 2-4hours.
Now if you take a high fat meal let's say akara with this kind of insulin, by the time the insulin peaks, the food is still in the stomach because it takes longer time (not less than 4hours) to digest high fat meals so the food is most likely getting into the blood stream when the insulin has relapsed leading to hyperglycemia.

2. Skipped/delayed meal: if you skip your meal or you wait till later to eat, your body may not be able to handle the glucose in the food because you may more likely eat more leading to hyperglycemia.

3. Irregular eating pattern: lastly that I am going to talk about, if you are fond of eating anyhow, let's say today you ate your breakfast early, tomorrow you decided to take a brunch etc. Your body will not metabolize the food properly. It takes about 4hours for a proper meal to move from the stomach to the bloodstream. So you may want to space your meal time to every 4-6hrs. This again differ from one person to another. It is cool you speak with your dietitian and have the appropriate time suitable for you planned together.

HAS DIABETES RIPPED OFF YOUR LIVE SAVINGS?

I absolutely get it.

Your blood sugar level keeps increasing.

Your doctor keeps increasing your dosage.

You keep spending on home remedies.

Yet, nothing seems to work.

There's so much uncertainty in the air and....

You're beginning to feel anxious, afraid, scared and frustrated.

In fact, you're beginning to give up to fate "maybe it is this diabetes that will kill me".

You have heard some people have been able to successfully manage their diabetes for many years and you're wondering how on earth they are doing it...

Relax! Breath in...out...exhale

Your blood sugar level can be controlled and maintained but first......

YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE IT. Believing it puts you in a place where you are open to new approach of managing your diabetes.

Some of the things you did before may not produce any result now which is why you want to make sure you get it right this time.

Have you considered your diet critically?

Would you consider implementing the dietitians' approach?

If your answer is YES, don't wait till the next minute....

Contact us now to avail yourself the privilege of meeting a dietitian and a certified diabetes educator today.

We will walk you through the process of managing your diabetes confidently.

Finally, you can also be one of the people with a good testimonial on diabetes management... But...

This offer will only be for 7days after which a premium will be placed on consulting our dietitians.

DECIDE NOW! send in a direct message via our page (Deviv Nutrition).

We look forward to working with you...

You can save a life by sharing with your loved one who is in dire need of this.

[5/4, 3:24 PM] Deviv Nutrition Services: 6. *Snacking*: don't even talk about this with some of our patients, "if I can manage to eat 3 times a day its okay I don't want to have crisis".
You can snack, the most important thing is what you snack on, for me its a good time to get in all those micro nutrients we talked about earlier.
[5/4, 3:25 PM] Deviv Nutrition Services: *Major Challenges and it's causes*
The major challenges encountered by diabetic patients are
Hyperglycemia
Hypoglycemia

Often time, it is caused by
Mismatching of of insulin/ drug with your food
Inadequate meal
Inappropriate exercise
Inappropriate timing
Irregular eating pattern
Skipping or delayed meals.

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Things to unlearn about diabetes management cont'd

*Hunger*: diabetic patients are very good at managing hunger, they feel hungry they don't want to eat, they just want to endure till later in a bid to control their blood sugar🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️. Listen, there is a lot going on in your body. Your line of management influences how you use food. If you are on insulin, don't dare because it will peak and when it does and there is no food there or you are on medication that helps your body produce more insulin like daonil mehn...there is problem you will run low on sugar (hypoglycemia). Trust me this is not good at all, we will get to talk about it later.
Note: don't starve yourself. There is always allowance for snacks.
Feel free to ask questions...

Warm regards.
Endocrine department,
Deviv nutrients

it's fruit Sunday....
The importance of fruits particularly in this trying times can not be overemphasized.
At Deviv Nutrition we hear stuffs like "I don't have access to fruits", " it is too expensive", it's boring"...Lol..seriously we've got no excuse, I mean fruit is everywhere and it is affordable.
If boredom is your problem, you can eat them in different forms.
Fruit is sweet and we like to eat it everyday...

Benefits of fruits
They are rich sources of antioxidant meaning they have powerful anti cancer property.
They are rich sources of vitamins that means they boost our immune system... more power for your body to fight diseases naturally.
You want your skin to glow? Eat fruits regularly and so much more.
Honestly, if we eat fruits regularly you may not need some of those agbo you run too every now and then...
Also for your events, you can show your guests how much you value their health by serving them any form of our fruits services.

Much love,
Deviv Nutrition