Category: Diabetic Diet
High-Fat Foods and the Affect on Blood Sugars
All diets should use fat in moderation as it can lead to an unhealthy body weight and heart disease. For a diabetic, controlling fat intake is important for the previous reason in addition to the negative affect it can have on blood sugars. Fats can be put into many different categories
Good Carbohydrates and Bad Carbohydrates
A lot of diabetic diets and diabetic meal planning center around carbohydrate intake
When to Eat when you have Diabetes
When you are a diabetic sometimes when you eat is just as important as what you eat. Keeping a steady stream of food in your system without causing high blood sugars can be hard to do. But once you figure what works for you, you will have more flexibility and better control of your diabetes. [...]
Using the Food Pyramid in Diabetic Diets
In grade school everyone was taught the food pyramid and the different food groups that make it up. It is recommended for a balanced and healthy diet to vary your diet and follow the food serving suggestions from the pyramid. As adults, people rarely pay as much heed to it if any at all. But [...]
Tips for Revamping Favorite Recipes
Everyone has their favorite dishes, ones that mom or grandma used to make or new ones that you have discovered on your own. Once you have been diagnosed with diabetes, you may feel that you can never enjoy these dishes again (or not without harming your health). But there are ways that you can change [...]
The TLC Diet for Diabetics
The Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes (TLC) diet was developed with more than diabetics in mind. It is a diet that is recommended to people with high cholesterol, heart or other cardiovascular diseases and those that have been diagnosed with diabetes. This diet consists of a set of guidelines that provide percentage ranges of what a patient [...]
The Glycemic Index and Diabetic Diets
The glycemic index diet is one that many diabetics find useful. The diet is based on assigning foods a ranking that indicates that food
The Exchange Diet
The exchange diet is a method of eating that provide diabetic with a set of guidelines necessary to eat healthy. A dietician will help prepare and educate you on the exchange diet