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Essential nutrition for diabetes |
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Monday, 20 July 2009 11:13 |
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Choose from all food groups including carbohydrates and monosaturated fat (canola, olive and peanut oil, avocado), protein and small amounts of saturated fats.
- Eat regular meals
- Increase fibre
- Reduce salt and sugar
- Eat a wide variety of fresh food including fruit and vegetables
- Limit alcohol to 1-2 standard drinks per day
Eat more starches - Aim for six or more servings of bread, cereal and starchy vegetables. At breakfast try cereal with non fat milk, an English muffin with jam and at other meals add cooked black beans, corn or garbanzo beans to salads, soups or casseroles.
Eat five fruits and vegetables each day. Use fruit & raw vegetables as snacks, and add vegetables to stir-fries or salads
Sugars and sweets in moderation and use low fat varieties of sweets, treat yourself once a week to a favourite sweet or share a dessert.
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Fibre Soluble fibre in fruits, vegetables and some seeds are great for people with diabetes because they slow and reduce glucose absorption. Legumes such as cooked kidney beans are among the highest soluble fibre foods but also try carrots. Insoluble fibre in bran, whole grains and nuts are great for cleaning the intestines.
Carbohydrate foods include grain breads, toast, pasta, long grain rice, barley, buckwheat, sweet potato, corn and some fruits.
Monosaturated fat: canola, olive and peanut oil, avocado oils,
Protein includes lean chicken, fish, and seafood, eggs and low fat dairy.
Saturated fats are usually solid or waxy at room temperature like butter, fat on meat, in dairy foods and some plant oils (palm and coconut) |
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Last Updated on Monday, 20 July 2009 11:21 |
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