Diabetic Diet

If you have diabetes, your body cannot make or properly use insulin. This leads to high blood glucose, or sugar, levels in your blood. Healthy eating helps to reduce your blood sugar. It is a critical part of managing your diabetes, because controlling your blood sugar can prevent the complications of diabetes.

Wise food choices are a foundation of diabetes treatment. Diabetes experts suggest meal plans that are flexible and take your lifestyle and other health needs into account. A registered dietitian can help you design a meal plan.

Healthy diabetic eating includes

• Limiting sweets
• Eating often
• Being careful about when and how many carbohydrates you eat
• Eating lots of whole-grain foods, fruits and vegetables
• Eating less fat
• Limiting your use of alcohol

External Resources

Hope Warshaw Associates - Books on diabetes diets, fast food calories nutrition, and healthy eating out and some frequently asked questions.

BL Publications - NHL Ministries - Offers books on diabetes, nutrition, health food, diets, weight loss, cancer, DHA, memory loss, and coral calcium.

Splenda Cookbooks - Recipes using Sucralose. These Diabetes association approved recipes are suitable for all Low-Carb and sugarless diets.

Creative Cooking for Renal Diets - Cleveland Clinic's renal diet and renal diabetic diet cookbooks; 288 kitchen tested recipes in easy to read large print.

The Good Cook - Cookbook club offers discount cookbooks including international, diabetic, low fat, and vegetarian diet recipes.

Calorie Counters International - Nutrition diet calculators and food calorie counters to track nutrients for weight loss diets, diabetics diets, low carb diets and calorie counters.

Diabetic 1 Stop - Diabetic recipes, supplies, diet essentials, lancets, shoes, snacks, meters, and enablers.

Rocky Mountain Health and Nutrition Center - Video and book designed to assist in controlling diabetes with diet, as well as a weight loss control program.

Diabetic Works - Programs include glucose plotting, diet management, and diary record keeping.

Specialty Food Pantries - Online shop specializing in diabetic, Pritikin diet and other diet-modified foods. [Ordering requires registration]

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