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The Diabetic Exchange List (Exchange Diet)

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…

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Sodium and Persons With Diabetes

Persons with diabetes are encouraged to plan a diabetic diet that limits their sodium intake to help prevent or to control high blood pressure. Suggestions for diabetic meal planning that will help toward this goal. (Diabetic Nutrition and Diabetic Cooking)

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The Diabetic Diet

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…

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Diabetic Recipes – Snacks

Healthy Snack Food recipes for Cheesy Pretzels and Shake and Take Mix. Recipes have food exchange information for diabetes diet planning. Good snacks ideas for the diabetic child. (Diabetes Recipe & Diabetes Food)

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Diabetic Recipes – Desserts

Diabetic dessert recipes for planning diabetic meals that everyone can enjoy. Diabetic cake recipes for Carrot Cake, Lime Cheesecake and Diabetic Frankly Fudge. Diabetic exchange information for diabetic diet planning. (Diabetes Recipe, Diabetic Cake Recipe, Diabetic Dessert Recipe)

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Diabetic Recipes – Main Dish

Main dish recipes for planning diabetic meals that everyone can enjoy. Barbecued Chicken, Brunswick Stew, Spinach Lasagna, Beef Stroganoff . Most recipes have exchange information for diabetes diet planning. (Diabetes Recipe & Diabetic Cooking, Free Recipes)

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How to Read Food Labels

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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Low Blood Sugar Symptoms

Low blood sugar occurs much more frequently in people with Type I diabetes, whose bodies don’t produce any insulin, than in people with Type 2 Diabetes. Exceptions to this may include people with Type 2 diabetes who are taking hypoglycemic agents, and…

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Blood Sugar Levels – Guidelines for Diabetes

Whether you have type 1 or type II diabetes or gestational diabetes, the goals of achieving control of blood glucose levels are similar: to keep blood glucose as close as possible to that of a person without diabetes.

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Diabetes-Related Heart Problems

Diabetes is only one factor that increases a person’s risk for heart disease. Other factors include smoking, high cholesterol (high triglycerides), low HDL (or “good” cholesterol), being overweight, high blood pressure, your age, being male, and having a family history of heart disease. …

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