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Eat Healthy - Diabetes
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You can help control your blood sugar (also called blood glucose) and diabetes when you eat healthy, get enough physical activity and stay at a healthy weight. Using the Food Guide Pyramid helps you eat a variety of healthy foods. Variety means eating foods from each of the food groups every day. Read more about the six food groups. (Diabetic Menu, Diabetic Food List, Diabetes Diet)
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Glycemic Index: New Way to Count Carbs?
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The latest news in diabetes diet planning is that even foods with the same carbohydrate content can trigger a wide difference in blood sugar levels. Diabetes researchers have developed a system for measuring the glycemic index of foods. Healthy carbs are those with a low glycemic index. This information takes the exchange diet to another level to help establish a diabetic food list that helps normalize blood sugar.
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Eating Right With Diabetes
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Maintaining a healthy diet is important for everyone, but it is vital for people with diabetes. Diabetes diet suggestions start with an understanding of carbohydrates, fiber and fats. Tips apply to a gestational diabetes diet. (Diabetic Food List & Diabetic Cooking)
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How to Read Food Labels
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Food labels not only help you choose healthy foods, they can help you control your diabetes (diabeties). Learn what to look for in planning your diabetes diet.
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The Diabetic Diet
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Your diabetic diet should be a well-balanced meal plan tailored to your individual needs, tastes, activity level and life style. Good diabetic meal planning will include carbohydrates, proteins and fats in amounts that will promote good diabetes control. Your dietitian may use diabetic food exchange lists to help you plan meals and snacks. (Diabetes Food and Diabetes Cooking)
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The Diabetic Exchange List (Exchange Diet)
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Diabetic meal planning and diabetic menus can become much easier to manage with the use of the exchange lists. Detailed diabetic food lists with the Starch/Bread List, Meat List, Vegetable List, Fruit List, Milk list, Fat list. Specifics on how to plan for a low carbohydrate diet. (Healthy carbs)
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Sugar Alcohol
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Sugar-free candy as well as as other products using the term "sugar-free" should be evaluated for total carbohydrate content. Sugar alcohols, though listed by their weight content within the food as listed in the Nutrition Facts panel, are not metabolized (broken down and used for energy) the way true sugars are. Because sugar alcohols are incompletely absorbed, the FDA allows the labeling and assignment of less energy per gram to these nutritive sweeteners. (Diabetes Diet and Nutrition)
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Carbohydrate Counting
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I am a diabetic and I just don't know how to count carbs. (Diabetic Diet, Low Carbohydrate Diet, Diabetic Meal Planning)
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The Truth About Sugar-Free Products
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When Free Isn't Really - What most people don't realize is that most sugar-free products still contain carbohydrate and will make your blood sugar levels go up. Anything that has starch or sugar--whether naturally occurring or added to it--contains carbohydrates. (Diabetic Meal Planning and Sugar Alcohols)
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Managing Hypoglycemia - Helpful Supplements (Part II)
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This article lists many supplements that are suggested as useful for hypoglycemia in the literature. Outlines the importance of the B vitamins in metabolizing fats, carbohydrates and proteins. Calcium, chromium, magnesium, manganese, selenium, vitamin C, vitamin E and zinc are discussed. (Low blood sugar)
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Dieters Weigh Choices: South Beach vs. Atkins
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Diabetics have been aware of the benefit of low-carb diets for years. Now the general public has embraced the concept. Agatston, author of The South Beach Diet, takes the approach of urging dieters to eat "the right carbs" - fruits and vegetables and, eventually, whole grains - but it still means forgoing the "white carbs" - white potatoes, white bread, white rice and pasta (except for whole wheat pasta) - for the rest of your life.
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Do You Know About Celiac Disease?
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A link between diabetes and celiac disease, both autoimmune disorders, has been recognized for some time. People with type 1 diabetes have a greater risk for developing celiac disease, typically about 1 in 20. (In the general population, including people with type 2 diabetes, the rate may be as high as 1 in 133.) In most cases, diabetes is diagnosed first. (Celiac Disease, Diabetic Complications)
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Diabetic Recipes - Appetizers and Snacks
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For most of us, party foods spell fun, festivity - and an overdose of fat, calories, and high-GI carbs. Fortunately, adopting a healthy low-GI lifestyle does not mean giving up party foods. Enjoy treats like Veggie-Cream Cheese Spread, Tasty Tuna Spread, Roasted Red Pepper Dip and Creamy Herb Dip. (Diabetic Meal Planning, Glycemic Index, Free Recipes)
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Artificial Sweeteners - Determining Which Is Best For You
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There are many artificial sweeteners available today. Saccharin, fructose, sucralose, maltose and cyclamate are some of those discussed in this article. Determining which is best for you is important. Education & guidance in choosing artificial sweeteners. (Diabetes Diet and Diabetes Management)
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Low Blood Sugar - Hypoglycemia
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When people first encounter the diet prescribed for hypoglycemia, they are often baffled by the ban on sugar. They have been given a diagnosis of low blood sugar and yet they must avoid sugar. Hypoglycemia is the opposite of diabetes, and diabetics cannot have sugar, therefore, surely the hypoglycemic sufferer must eat lots of sugar? This is a common misunderstanding.
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