Diabetes Meal Planning & Nutrition for Dummies [Book] / Enjoy selecting, preparing, and eating delicious foods -- Take control of blood glucose and even reverse diabetes -- Save money and gain flavor with chef-driven meals.
Introduction ; Part 1: Diabetes and food: culinary therapy -- Eating well with diabetes -- Understanding diabetes: a holistic approach -- Managing diabetes and blood glucose -- Incorporating easy lifestyle hacks ; Part 2: Nutrition with purpose -- Explaining nutrition requirements for diabetes -- Meeting the macronutrients: carbohydrates, fat, and protein -- Making micronutrients work for you -- Eating a rainbow: bioactive compounds and polyphenols -- Equipping yourself for success ; Part 3: Eating for pleasure and better health -- Exposing barriers to healthy eating -- Setting priorities and staying on track -- Choosing the best food when shopping ; Part 4: Ready, set, plan -- Customizing your meals -- Analyzing popular diet plans -- What's on the menu: having a plan for eating out -- Choosing sensible beverages and snacks ; Part 5: Putting it all together: meals to manage your diabetes -- Reviewing a seven-day menu -- Creating delicious and nutritious meals ; Part 6: The part of tens -- Ten diabetes "power foods" -- Ten inexpensive diabetes-friendly foods -- Ten healthful food swaps for losing weight.
Summary:
The new edition of Diabetes Meal Planning & Nutrition For Dummies offers you a holistic approach to living your best life with diabetes. Optimize your diet and plan delicious meals that will empower you to take control, improve your health, prevent, and even reverse diabetes. Written by an award-winning chef and renowned doctor who are both experts in the field of nutrition, this book helps you understand what defines healthful eating for diabetes, its crucial role to long term health, and how meal planning is a key to successful diabetes management. Learn how to receive all the nutrients necessary for glucose control while managing Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes and maintaining ideal weight. Discover how to supercharge your diet and protect yourself from the complications associated with diabetes with anti-inflammatory and antioxidant-rich foods. To get you started, this indispensable guide includes 22 mouthwatering, easy to recreate, and affordable recipes that maximize the benefits of nutritious ingredients to regulate blood glucose levels. The kitchen and shopping hacks will enable you to master culinary therapy and take delight in preparing meals and cooking. This updated edition includes: Practical examples of meal plans perfectly suited for prediabetes, Type 1, and Type 2 diabetes A whole person approach to diabetes that focuses on diet, lifestyle, exercise, and medical treatment Coverage of new therapies and the latest evidence on how gut health can help with diabetes management Nutrition facts and health benefits for your favorite ingredients, so you can eat what you love Diabetes Meal Planning & Nutrition For Dummies is an excellent resource for those interested in the latest diabetes-friendly nutrition guidelines, as well as anyone who has been diagnosed with diabetes or has a loved one who has been diagnosed, or would like to prevent it.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.