Nutrition

Are You One Of 30 Million Americans With Diabetes? A Drastic Diet May Help

Although the results from this study are very impressive, and it bucks a trend where solutions to chronic conditions often involve giving more prescription medications, not fewer, this method is far from being a magic cure. As with any weight-loss-centered intervention, willpower is definitely required, and it is debatable whether this new strategy for managing type 2 diabetes will be welcomed by physicians and patients in the U.S.

Eating Meals Earlier In The Day Could Cut Diabetes Risk And Lower Blood Pressure, Study Suggests

In our ongoing dieting dialogue we spend a lot of time talking about what to eat, but what if we’re leaving out something just as important? What if changing when we eat could significantly improve our health? For the first time, a small study offers preliminary evidence supporting precisely that argument, showing that eating earlier in the day might affect our health as much as what we're eating.

Fighting Diabetes With Food

Virta is one of a handful of companies attempting to attack the epidemic—some 28 million Americans suffer from Type 2 diabetes—without relying on medications.

Grub Shlub

How can we transition to diabetes-friendly meals without sacrificing the flavor and richness of the “comfort food” from various cuisines we enjoy?

How a Low-Carb Diet Might Aid People With Type 1 Diabetes

The new study comes with an important caveat. It was an observational study, not a randomized trial with a control group. The researchers recruited 316 people, 130 of them children whose parents gave consent, from a Facebook group dedicated to low-carb diets for diabetes, called TypeOneGrit, then reviewed their medical records and contacted their medical providers. While it was not a clinical trial, the study is striking because it highlights a community of patients who have been “extraordinarily successful” at controlling their diabetes with a very low-carb diet...

Diabetes Diet: What To Eat

What you eat can make a big difference in how much diabetes impacts you in the short term and over the long run.

Is Exceptional Control of Type 1 Diabetes Possible with a Low-Carbohydrate Diet?

Despite the latest technologies for monitoring blood sugar and administering insulin, most people with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) face a kind of Charybdis or Scylla choice with every meal: HYPERglycemia soon after eating versus HYPOglycemia after a few hours.

Diabetic Diet: Foods That Raise Your Blood Sugar Levels

There is no single diabetes diet, meal plan, or diet that is diabetes-friendly that can serve as a correct meal plan for all patients with diabetes (type 2, gestational, or type 1 diabetes).

Fish Oils and Diabetes

Summaries of the latest research concerning fish oils and diabetes.

How to Fight Type 2 Diabetes

Dietary advice for type 2 diabetes is the same as advice for everyone else: Eat a wide variety of relatively unprocessed foods, especially vegetables, fruits, and whole grains, and don't consume too much junk food or too many sugary beverages.

It’s not okay for CrossFit’s CEO to joke about diabetes

As a journalist, I’m not a big fan of the Twitter outrage that wiggles its way into so many news headlines these days. But as a person with Type 1 diabetes, I am 100% on board with the dismay expressed by Jonas and numerous others regarding Glassman’s cavalier punchline.

Managing Diabetes Risk With Diet and Exercise

Dr. Colberg says a combination of diet and increased physical activity can help prevent Type 2 diabetes, and even reverse the disease. Cardio and strength workouts are both important, she says; if there’s only time for one, choose resistance training.

Michelle Obama's Weighty Issues with Childhood Obesity

I am determined to work with folks across this country to change the way a generation of kids thinks about food and nutrition - Michelle Obama

The Miracle Berry Could Be a Miracle

The miracle berry really is a bit miraculous in its effect and is certainly a good bit of fun as well. Ultimately it may even turn out to be beneficial to both dieters and diabetics.

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.