Nutrition

I'm honored to serve as an ambassador to the Diabetes Aware campaign, and I want to encourage families to be active and eat right. We can make a difference in our own families through exercise, food choices, and teaching healthy behaviors to our children - Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson

Nutrition
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Cyber Kitchen with Judith Jones-Ambrosini



Forty years ago, while busy being a rebellious teenager, I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. I didn't know the difference between a carrot stick and celery rib, and all that really mattered was how I could sneak a hot fudge sundae.

My years of living with diabetes timeline has spanned the dark ages of testing urine for sugar spills with Benedict solution, an eye dropper and lab tube, and boiling steel needles and glass syringes for that OUCH shot of NPH insulin each morning, to the bright lights now on the horizon, and to joy and amazement as new discoveries emerge. Then a convenient roll of litmus paper, called Testape, revolutionized the old eye dropper method of…

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 Cyber Kitchen with Judith Jones-Ambrosini

One of the great lessons I've learned in forty years of living with diabetes is that, it's not "you are what you eat", but rather your blood sugars are what you eat. This axiom remains an integral part of how well we feel as we continue to witness progress and developments and hope for more.

Diabetes Food Hub

Managing diabetes is a challenge that requires finding the right balance among food, physical activity, and medicine, if needed. Healthful food is key to managing diabetes. Only you can decide what to eat and using a meal plan as a guide can make it easier. Discover more about meal planning options and how MyFoodAdvisor can help

The Diabetic Diet

The Diabetic Diet is a scientifically designed program that guarantees to naturally increase your energy, stabilize your blood sugar and burn stored body fat.

Angelfire

Providing a variety diabetic recipes, even for the person with a sweet tooth.

Children with Diabetes

Here are recipes that are sure to please, and they're mostly sugar free!

Chong's Health Care

Information on everything you need to know to stick to a healthy diabetic diet.

CooksRecipes.com

A collection of diabetic-friendly recipes for sugar and carb-restricted diets. Find recipes for a variety of appetizers and snacks, beverages, breads, muffins, sweet buns, cookies, brownies, scrumptious desserts, pies, salads and salad dressings, sauces, condiments, soups and stews, side dishes and hearty entrées...including a very special category of recipes created by well-known professional chefs.

Diabetes Diet

Diabetesdiet.com is all about educating people about this deadly disease called diabetes. No matter what your age, if you are diagnosed with diabetes, you know your life is going to change. Diabetesdiet.com seeks to help diabetics who want to learn more about how they should manage their diet and care for their body as a whole.

Diabetes Self Management

Diabetes Self-Management is a publisher of authoritative, reliable health information for the growing number of people with diabetes who want to know more about controlling and managing their diabetes.

dLife

Defeat diabetes by choosing a Low Carb Lifestyle. Find ways to make healthy food choices to help manage your weight and prevent Type 2 Diabetes.

RightShape

Effective diabetic-management requires a healthy regular lifestyle which should include a regular balanced diet, regular exercise and sensible weight control. Despite diabetes being a condition of sugar regulation, specific restriction of sugars is not necessary, except as part of ensuring a balanced diet overall.

The Diet Channel

Most nutritionists will deny that there is a single, specific plan that qualifies for the term "diabetic diet". However, there are important nutritional guidelines that people with diabetes need to follow in order to manage their condition. The so-called "diabetic diet" isn't exclusively for people with or without diabetes.

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