Meal Planning: Plan and Shop for Better Diabetes Management
With a little planning, grocery shopping can be a very effective tool in meeting goals, from managing blood sugar levels to losing weight.
Meal Planning
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What to Look For When Shopping for Less Processed Foods
Reaching for foods in a form lowest in health negatives and highest in nutritional positives can be confusing. Here are some tips to help when shopping for healthier, less processed foods.
Fall Produce Guide: What’s in Season, Nutritional Info and Diabetic Recipes to Try.
Find out which fruits and vegetables are available through November and into December, plus how much is in a serving and what the nutritional info is to help make meal planning easier.
Living with Diabetes: 6 Tips for Making Healthy Eating Choices
Learning how to eat right is an major part of controlling your diabetes and these tips on healthy eating can help.
Learn How to Make Smart Protein Choices When Meal Planning for Diabetes
Learn how to make smart choices with protein foods, how to vary your protein choices, what to look for on the food label and more.
Living With Diabetes: Food Choices on a Tight Budget
Making healthy food choices on a budget can be a challenge, but it’s possible to eat well without spending a lot of money or time. Consider these tips to eat better, save time, and stretch your food dollars.
Raising Veggie-Eating Children
We hear about vegetables’ importance to health all the time, but many children and adolescents still don’t eat even one serving a day.
Grade-A Grocery List: Shopping Tips to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes
A healthy diet doesn’t have to be expensive. Start by planning meals and making a grocery list ahead of time to take charge of what you eat. Follow these tips while grocery shopping to help you and your entire family make healthy food choices.
Buffet Table Tips for People with Diabetes
Eating the right foods to control your blood sugar means being prepared and planning ahead. If you choose wisely and watch how much you eat at a buffet, you can have a delicious meal and feel good too.
Cooking for the Person With Diabetes
The way you cook for a person with diabetes is the way you should cook for the whole family. By cutting down the fat, sugar, and sodium in recipes, you lower everyone’s risk for diabetes and other chronic diseases.
Eating In For Better Health
Even though we know commercially-prepared meals often aren’t the most healthful, we choose them for convenience. But there are ways to cook nutritious meals quickly and easily.
Glycemic Index: How Helpful in Promoting Long-Term Health?
Foods with a low GI are digested and absorbed more slowly, causing a more gradual rise in blood sugar and preventing rapid spikes in insulin levels.
Nutritional Gatekeeper: How Big a Role?
For many years, research found that one person in each family called the Gatekeeper controls the majority of food purchased and eaten by all family members. Now some question whether cultural changes are removing gatekeepers’ power.
Two Calorie-Cutting Strategies Pass the Test
When people manage to cut calories substantially at one meal, often they offset that reduction by overeating later that day or the next day. But now, new research at Pennsylvania State University has identified two strategies you can use to significantly lower your calorie intake for two days without feeling hungry.
