Rabbit Meat: Preventing Blood Clot Formation
Rabbit meat has lower fat and cholesterol than other meats, and its fat contains unsaturated fatty acids which do not contribute to weight gain. For diabetics, regular consumption can protect blood vessels and prevent blood clots. Additionally, rabbit meat helps prevent and improve sexual dysfunction caused by diabetes.
However, rabbit meat is considered cooling in nature. Pregnant women, women during menstruation, individuals with obvious symptoms of yang deficiency such as cold limbs, and those with a weak and cold spleen and stomach should consume it with caution.
Hypoglycemic Recipe: Stir-fried Rabbit Meat with Mung Bean Sprouts. Take 100g of rabbit meat, wash and shred it, and marinate it with salt, cooking wine, and starch water, then blanch until cooked. Then, take 250g of mung bean sprouts, wash and blanch in boiling water. Pour in cooking oil, sauté ginger shreds and mung bean sprouts until 70% cooked, add the shredded rabbit meat and stir-fry for a moment, then add salt and minced garlic, and drizzle with sesame oil.
Duck Meat: Stabilizing Blood Sugar Levels
Compared to other meats, duck meat contains more B vitamins, which can replenish the B vitamins consumed by type 2 diabetics due to insulin resistance, thereby stabilizing blood sugar levels.
However, duck meat is cold in nature. Individuals with a weak constitution and yang deficiency, such as those with cold-type abdominal pain, diarrhea, weak yang and spleen, or dysmenorrhea, should avoid consuming it.
Hypoglycemic Recipe: Cabbage and Duck Soup. Take 250g of cabbage, clean and shred it. Skin 100g of duck breast. Place a pot on the stove, pour in cooking oil and heat to 60% heat, sauté scallions and ginger until fragrant, add the duck breast and stir-fry until the meat turns white, add an appropriate amount of water and simmer for 15 minutes, add the cabbage shreds and cook until done, and season with salt and pepper.
Black-boned Chicken: Improving Stress Adaptability
Black-boned chicken contains more vitamin B2 and vitamin E, which can improve the stress adaptability of diabetic patients to their environment.
However, black-boned chicken can generate heat and promote fire. Therefore, it is contraindicated for patients with severe skin diseases and those with cold symptoms such as fever and cough.
Hypoglycemic Recipe: Black-boned Chicken and Chinese Yam Hot Pot. Cut the black-boned chicken into pieces, blanch, wash, and peel the Chinese yam, then cut into thick slices. Take a clay pot, add the black-boned chicken pieces, Chinese yam slices, red dates, ginger slices, and green onion stalks, add an appropriate amount of water, and simmer over low heat for 1.5 hours. Season with salt.