Complete Guide to Carb Counting
Table of Contents
- Why Count Carbs?
- What’s Carb Counting?
- Are You Ready to Begin Basic Carb Counting?
- How Many Meals and Snacks to Eat?
- Begin Counting
- Protein, Fat and Alcohol Count, Too
- Weigh and Measure Foods—A Key to Your Success
- The Food Label Has the Facts
- Convenience Foods and Recipes—How to Figure, How to Manage?
- Restaurant Meals—How to Figure, How to Manage?
- Blood Glucose Pattern Management: A Key to Fine-Tune Your Control
- Ready, Willing and Able to Progress?
- Advanced Carb Counting—All the Ins and Outs
- Common Questions and Answers about Advanced Carb Counting
- Cornerstones—Knowledge and Support
- Appendixes
- Carb Counts of Everyday Foods
- Carb Counting Resources
- Record Keeping Forms
Book Details
2nd EditionPaperback, 240 pages
Copyright©, 2004
- baffled about which foods contain how much carb?
- confused about how much carb YOU need?
- overwhelmed in the supermarket aisles?
- inept finding carb counts for favorite foods?
The Complete Guide to Carb Counting, now in it's 2nd edition, is the A-Z guide to carbohydrate counting for diabetes whether you want to learn basic or advanced carb counting. Carb Counting is a method of meal planning that has gained popularity due to its simplicity, ease of use and application of current diabetes nutrition research and management. This book is co-authored by Karmeen Kulkarni, a dietitian and diabetes educator who along with Hope Warshaw combine more than 50 years of experience working with people with diabetes.
The Complete Guide to Carb Counting begins with answers to questions—what’s carbohydrate?; why carb counting can help you control your blood glucose levels? Next you'll build your knowledge step by step from how to count carbs, how much carb you need to eat, how to use food labels and much more.
The Complete Guide to Carb Counting goes on to show you how to make decisions about how much medication (insulin) to take, based on the amount of carb you eat, it teaches you how to fine-tune your blood glucose levels by observing your blood glucose patterns. It also helps you understand how you can gain flexibility in your diabetes care with the benefits of using the newer insulins or an insulin pump.
