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Adding onions to meals can help lower blood sugar. Photo: Kieu Vu
Adding onions to meals can help lower blood sugar. Photo: Kieu Vu

Workers should supplement onions if they want to lower blood sugar

Kiều Vũ (Theo EDF) - báo lao động 29/12/2025 17:12 (GMT+7)

Onions are one of the especially suitable foods for workers who want to help lower blood sugar or stabilize blood sugar.

In modern life, workers often face high work intensity, prolonged stress and unbalanced diet. These factors can easily lead to metabolic disorders, including hyperglycemia.

Therefore, choosing familiar, easy-to-find but healthy foods is very necessary. Onions are one such food, especially suitable for workers who want to help lower and stabilize blood sugar.

Onions contain many biological compounds that can help improve insulin sensitivity - a hormone that plays an important role in regulating blood sugar levels. When insulin works more effectively, glucose is transported into cells for energy, instead of accumulating in the blood. This is very meaningful for workers, because they need to maintain a stable energy level to work effectively for a long time.

In addition, onions are rich in fiber but have little energy. Fiber helps slow down the absorption of sugar after meals, thereby limiting the rapid increase in blood sugar. For workers who often eat quickly, briskly or use a lot of refined foods, adding onions to their daily meals can help balance their diet and reduce pressure on the metabolic system.

In addition to the direct effect on blood sugar, onions also support weight control. Being overweight and obese are factors that increase the risk of blood sugar disorders, especially in sedentary or office workers. Eating onions regularly, combined with other healthy foods, can help create a feeling of fullness for a long time, limit overeating and thereby contribute to maintaining a reasonable weight.

It is impossible not to mention the convenience of onions in processing. Onions can be used in many familiar dishes such as stir-frying, cooking soup, mixing salads or served with salty dishes, very suitable for the living conditions of workers. Thanks to that, adding onions does not cause great disruption to eating habits.

For workers who want to help lower and stabilize blood sugar, onions are a simple, economical and effective choice. When used reasonably in the daily diet, onions not only contribute to improving metabolic health but also help workers maintain energy and long-term work efficiency.

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