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Diabetics: What is you’re special diet?
Posted under 4) Diabetics Diet by adminHeya all 
At school for Food Technology we had to choose a special diet to research. I choose diabetics. I have looked on the internet but can’t really find anything so i was wondering if anyone that is a diabetic (or that knows about diabetic diets) could tell me about their diet?
Like foods that are good for diabetics and foods that are not so good. It doesn’t matter if your type 1 or type 2 im doing it on both. But place state which you are talking about.
Thanks x
Hi. I am so much more than a diabetic. I am a person with diabetes.I hate the word diabetic.
We all have different diets. There is no one size fits all diet for people with diabetes.
We need to learn to count our carbohydrates in our food and does [ insulin ] for what we eat.
Obviously a 2 yr old with diabetes does not eat the same as a 24 yr old olympic athlete with diabetes.
For people not on insulin, it’s more of a need to eat the same amount of carbs through out the day at the same time daily.
We work with dietitians who help us decide how many carbs we should take in at every meal.
Let’s say at breakfast , you have 45 carbs.You can have eggs and 2 slices of toast.Or you can have one toast and an orange.As long as the carbs remain the same- it is changeable.
If we want cake for dessert, we can change out our dinner roll and starchy vegetable to accommodate the cake.
There will always be a better nutritional choices but as adults, we can eat every food on this earth.Nothing is forbidden. There are better choices than others.
Try the American Diabetes Association or the CDC Diabetes Program websites. If you’d searched the phrase "diabetes diet", Yahoo! would’ve returned some top resources.
References :
http://www.diabetes.org/food-and-fitness/
http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/consumer/eatright.htm
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=diabetes%20diet
Hi. I am so much more than a diabetic. I am a person with diabetes.I hate the word diabetic.
We all have different diets. There is no one size fits all diet for people with diabetes.
We need to learn to count our carbohydrates in our food and does [ insulin ] for what we eat.
Obviously a 2 yr old with diabetes does not eat the same as a 24 yr old olympic athlete with diabetes.
For people not on insulin, it’s more of a need to eat the same amount of carbs through out the day at the same time daily.
We work with dietitians who help us decide how many carbs we should take in at every meal.
Let’s say at breakfast , you have 45 carbs.You can have eggs and 2 slices of toast.Or you can have one toast and an orange.As long as the carbs remain the same- it is changeable.
If we want cake for dessert, we can change out our dinner roll and starchy vegetable to accommodate the cake.
There will always be a better nutritional choices but as adults, we can eat every food on this earth.Nothing is forbidden. There are better choices than others.
References :
There really are no forbidden foods for people with diabetes. The focus is on counting carbohydrates and keeping them at a modest level. A common guideline is 35g per meal, with a couple of 15g snacks during the day. It’s best to focus on lean meats, green veggies, cheese, whole grains, eggs, diet drinks, and nuts. Minimize potatoes, pasta, bread, sweets, fruit, milk, juice, and sugared drinks. Diabetics who are insulin dependent have more flexibility to eat more carbs as long as they calculate their insulin dose correctly. But it’s still much easier to manage blood glucose if we keep the carbs down.
References :
Type 1 for 26 years
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