Diabetic Nutrition Information:

Education and Training Leads To
Better Diabetic Health

Diabetic nutrition information is always foremost in most patient's minds after diagnosis, but the only thing that comes out is "Doc, what can I eat?"

Having diabetes is about more than what your next food choices are going to be. Other factors that now must be considered are:

• controlling your glucose (blood sugar) levels

• controlling your fats, carbohydrates, proteins and sodium levels

• getting sufficient sleep every day

• fitting in a modest exercise program at least 5 days per week

• controlling the continuous extremes placed on your daily stress levels

While working with your health care team in the next upcoming months, you will be trained how all of these also factor into your new diabetic nutrition information program.

Designing Your Personal Diabetic Nutrition Information Diet

• appropriate weight loss

• a good balance of nutrients for optimal health

• normal blood sugar control

• control of your blood fats(blood lipid)levels to prevent any major future complications such as heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol or excessive weight gain.

Ideally, by working with your doctor, a nutritionist or a dietitian plus other members of your extended health care team, this program will be set up and revised within the next few months and years. These people will help you to understand how ingesting proteins, fats, carbohydrates, sweets and dairy is going to effect your health and aid in necessary weight loss, if required. All of this can be accomplished as you also retain the essential vitamins and minerals your body needs for optimum health.

Obviously, just from this description though, you are going to have to be the "captain" on your team. It will ultimately be your responsibility to lead, implement and then follow all of these recommendations to achieve the higher standard of health which is possible from your personalized diabetic nutrition information program.

Removing Calories You Won't Miss From Your Diet

Maybe it was about 50 to 100 pounds or more. Most people always think high!

After mentally going through this exercise, most people have already "cut off" and stopped listening to the doctor about any further diabetic nutrition information. In the patient's mind, they are still thinking about how does the doctor ever expect me to lose that much weight - cut it off?

This is where you need to apply the brakes right now in your mind. Don't waste your time thinking I need to lose 100 to 200 pounds. Instead, remind yourself I can lose 10 pounds if I must. After that, set a goal for 10 more pounds. Whether it takes you 3 months or 6 months to lose those 10 pounds, that's OK. Every single pound you lose adds up to better health.

Start by making your weight loss endeavors more manageable to achieve those first ten pounds? Start by trying to incorporate some of these into your daily routine and over time add each to your diabetic nutrition information handbook.

• Load up your plate every single meal with an assortment of non-starchy vegetables. At least 1/2 of your plate should be covered with these, some cooked and some raw. The rest of your plate then will have one serving of meat, one grain or starchy vegetable and a piece of fruit.

• Switch from a regular salad dressing to a low-fat variety, then a non-fat variety. Shop around till you find a selection you like. Many brands are so good you won't even realize the stuff is good for you too.

• Slow down while you are eating. Stop "wolfing down" your food and allow your brain to have enough time to register the fact you have had enough to eat.

• Stop drinking sweetened sodas, tea, coffee and fruit juices. The juices can be switched over to the piece of fruit itself. The fiber content in the fruit actually keeps your sugars a little lower. Change the sweetened sodas and coffee etc. over to a natural sweetener (like Stevia) to reduce natural sugars or high fructose corn syrup.

• Remove the full fat versions of milk, cheese and yogurt from your diet and change over to the low-fat and nonfat varieties.

• Use mustard or low-fat yogurt instead of mayonnaise in your recipes. This will save you up to 1/2 the fat calories in any recipe or sandwich.

• Is your eyes yearning for that big over-sized blueberry muffin while you are in the store? You have already figured out this luxury can't possibly be in your diabetic nutrition information handbook.

  #1 is why are you standing in the bakery aisle? Just do not buy it! If you are hungry, pick a low calorie favorite of yours instead. If you were hungry, your waistline will thank you for it later. If it was just your eyes that was "hungry", you will forget all about it when you leave the store anyway.

• Back off of large servings of potatoes, bread, pasta, rice and all starchy vegetables and grains. Do not deprive yourself of these though, just improvise a little.

  One submarine or two sandwiches can become one sandwich on whole wheat bread. Pasta can be tossed with all kinds of non-starchy vegetables to make a quick pasta salad. Just make sure you use more veges and less pasta. Top with a bottle of nonfat salad dressing for a quick trimmed down version of macaroni salad.Or another quick tip to lose the calories, skip the bread and use lettuce leaves as a wrapper for your sandwich fillings.

• When dining out, split your meal into half and order a "doggie bag" as soon as you receive the meal. Then order yourself some extra vegetables and enjoy the other 1/2 of today's meal for tomorrow's lunch.

• Strive for better portion control. Every time you eat, not everything has to be in 2's. Two cookies, 2 sandwiches, 2 bowls of soup, etc. can all be cut back to one and add a raw salad instead to help fill you up. Trying this can cut your daily calorie intake up to 1/3 to 1/2.

So by putting a few of these diabetic nutrition information strategies to work and slowly adding more as time progresses, losing that first 10 lbs. will actually be a whole lot easier than you imagined. You also will reap the benefits of better diabetic health plus blood sugar control with every pound you lose in the upcoming months.

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