Free Diabetic Meal Plan

Posted by admin in Prescription Diabetes Drugs on May 02nd, 2011

Diabetes sufferers must take extra special care to ensure that their eating plan is very balanced. You have to consider insulin, medications as well as exercise as a means to control your blood glucose levels. In addition to these, your food intake is going to greatly determine your overall health and how well you can manage your diabetes.

Do I Have to Give Up My Favorite Foods?

A diabetic meal plan is not like a diet. It is more of a way to easily manage and reference what you can eat and what you should be eating to manage your condition. You can eat much of the same foods as everyone else, as long as you watch your blood glucose, cholesterol and blood pressure levels.

In a nutshell, with common sense you can have a healthy eating plan that does not compromise on taste and variety. In fact, your menu plan should include a very wide variety of foods, rather than the same things over and over.

This results in you getting enough from each food group, but also has the effect of you not becoming bored with the same old foods.

So what can you include to cover both variety and health? Plenty of vegetables of course, plus some fruits (watch the sugar levels in some fruit), whole grain carbohydrates, low or no fat dairy, fish, beans, lentils and other very healthy choices.

Some popular guides to follow for diabetes meal planning are:

  • Food Guide Pyramid
  • Carbohydrate Counting
  • Rating your Plate
  • Exchanges Lists

Ideally you will include a combination of each of the principals of each of these plans, so you can formulate the perfect one for you.

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