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one of its life-threatening complications (i.e. heart disease, kidney disease, or eye problems).
Guidelines for healthy eating
If you have diabetes, your doctor will refer you to a dietician or nutrition counselor who can help you work out a diet specifically for your needs, age, and weight since each person’s daily caloric and nutritional needs are different. The following guidelines are general ones to follow. It is important for a diabetic to: reach and stay at a reasonable weight, be careful of serving sizes, avoid skipping meals, and increase your daily activity by walking or exercise.
Eat less fat - Eat smaller servings of meat. Eat fish and poultry more often. Choose lean cuts of red meat. Prepare all meats by roasting, baking, or broiling. Trim off all fat. Be careful of added sauces or gravy. Remove skin from poultry. Avoid fried foods. Avoid adding fat in cooking. Eat fewer high-fat foods such as cold cute, bacon, sausage, hot dogs, butter, margarine, nuts, salad dressing, lard, and solid shortening. Drink skim or low-fat milk. Eat less ice cream, cheese, sour cream, cream, whole milk, and other highfat dairy products.
Eat more high-fiber foods - Choose dried beans, peas, and lentils more often. Eat whole grain breads, cereals, and crackers. Eat more vegetables - raw and cooked. Eat whole fruit in place of fruit juice. Try other high fiber foods, such as oat bran, barley, bulgur, brown rice, wild rice.
Use less salt - Reduce the amount of salt you use in cooking. Try not to put salt on food at the table. Eat fewer high-salt foods, such as canned soups, ham, sauerkraut, hot dogs, pickles, and foods that taste salty.
Eat less sugar - Avoid regular soft drinks. One 12-ounce can has nine teaspoons of sugar! Avoid eating table sugar, honey, syrup, jam, jelly, candy, sweet rolls, fruit canned in syrup, regular gelatin desserts, cake with icing, pie, or other
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