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Choose one of these easy ideas or write down 1 or 2 things you will do for the next few weeks. Remember, little changes in your eating can make a big difference in your blood sugar.
NOTE: Living with Diabetes: An Everyday Guide for You and Your Family was produced by the ACP Foundation for patients with diabetes. Designed in a magazine format with lots of photos and a conversational style, the guide is an entirely new means of patient education in that the emphasis is on action (what patients need to do every day to manage their diabetes), rather than on an exchange of information. This guide is copyrighted and is available in both English and Spanish versions.
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
This easy-to-use tool will help patients assess the nutritional value of their meals.
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
Guidelines patients can follow to make healthy eating choices.
From the ACP Diabetes Care Guide
This tool will help calculate patient body mass index (BMI).
Eating right is the most important way to control your blood sugar. Your blood sugar is affected by what you eat, when you eat, and how much you eat.
NOTE: Living with Diabetes: An Everyday Guide for You and Your Family was produced by the ACP Foundation for patients with diabetes. Designed in a magazine format with lots of photos and a conversational style, the guide is an entirely new means of patient education in that the emphasis is on action (what patients need to do every day to manage their diabetes), rather than on an exchange of information. This guide is copyrighted and is available in both English and Spanish versions.
The ACP and the ADA jointly developed this patient information guide that covers many aspects of diabetes care including glucose control, blood pressure control and lipids control. It is available in English and Spanish.
A new study of published literature that reported the effect of dietary counseling for weight loss finds that, on average, dietary counseling has resulted in weight loss of approximately 6 percent of initial body weight (approximately 10-15 pounds) after one year, compared with people not involved in formal weight loss programs.
Approximately half the weight loss remained at three years, but almost none of the weight loss remained at five years. The study, "Meta-analysis: Effect of Dietary Counseling for Weight Loss," appears in the July 3, 2007, issue of Annals of Internal Medicine.
From the National Library of Medicine (NLM)
This resource compiles information related to making healthy diet choices for patients with diabetes.
From the National Library of Medicine
This multimedia tutorial provides information on how to plan meals and make good food choices which are especially important for patients with diabetes.
This innovative, free mobile 'healthy eating' tool enables users to build an online picture food journal, become aware of what they eat, and get feedback and encouragement. The system helps patients take control of their own nutrition for overall wellness, encouraging healthy eating habits.
The Diabetes Log program is a complete tracking tool to help patients keep track of relevant information. Users can enter their BG level, insulin, activities, carbohydrate counts on each meal, etc.
CarbCheck is a carbohydrate-fat-protein database to assist patients in managing their carbohydrate intake--an important step in managing diabetes. The program is designed to allow easy lookup, sorting, and tallying of carbohydrate, fat, and protein information for over 1000 different foods. Users can also add/edit additional food items, sort by existing food categories (vegetables, starches, etc.), sort by supplied chain restaurant menus, bookmark food items to get a total carbohydrate tally per meal, and even import/export additional foods through Excel.
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Annals of Internal Medicine
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