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Complete Guide to Carb Counting
- 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 3rd edition, is the A-Z guide to carbohydrate counting for diabetes whether you want to learn the basics of carbohydrate counting or progress on to advanced carb counting using carb-to-insulin ratios and correction factors. Carb Counting is a method of meal planning that has gained popularity due because it focuses on the nutrient which most impacts blood glucose levels after eating.
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3rd Edition
Paperback, 160 pages
Copyright©, 2011
Table of Contents
- What Is Carb Counting?
- Basic Carb Counting
- Keeping Track
- Protein, Fat and Alcohol Count, Too
- Weigh and Measure Foods—A Key to Your Success
- The Food Label Has the Facts
- Carb Counting in Real Life
How to Count Convenience Foods and Recipes - Carb Counting in Real Life
How to Count Restaurant Meals and Take Out Foods - Blood Glucose Pattern Management: Fine-Tune Your Control
- Blood Glucose-Lowering Medications and Insulin
- Advanced Carb Counting
- Cornerstones—Knowledge and Support
- Appendixes
- Carb Counts of Everyday Foods
- Carb Counting Resources
- Record Keeping Forms
Want to Count Carbs More Accurately? Build Your Own Custom Carb Database
For people with type 1 or 2 diabetes carbohydrate, or carb, counting has evolved to be the most common method taught to help you plan meals and, if you take insulin, gauge your insulin doses. Carb counting is based on research showing that it’s the total amount of carbohydrate you eat that most impacts your blood glucose levels after you eat. (Check out two of my articles about the fine art of carbohydrate counting in Diabetic Living magazine Solving
Warshaw's article Get Your Licks published in Diabetic Living (Summer '09)
Submitted by hopew on Thu, 06/18/2009 - 09:42In Get Your Licks, (summer '09 issue of Diabetic Living), Warshaw offers strategies to help people looking to manage diabetes and/or eat healthier continue to savor frozen desserts. Tips to choose healthy types and toppings are included.
Carbohydrate: How Much (or Not) to Munch? Dualing Dialog with Tenderich's diabetesmine.com
Warshaw dialogs with diabetesmine.com blogger Tenderich on her blog about research and recommendations about carbohydrate intake for type 1. Check it out, then read my rebuttal below. Thanks Amy for being open to dialog!
Practical Carbohydrate Counting: A How-to-Teach Guide for Health [For Practitioners]
![Cover of Practical Carbohydrate Counting: A How-to-Teach Guide for Health [For Practitioners]](/sites/default/files/images/books/Practical-Carb-Counting_lg.jpg "Practical Carbohydrate Counting: A How-to-Teach Guide for Health [For Practitioners]")
Practical Carbohydrate Counting: A How-to-Teach Guide for Health, written with co-author and diabetes nutrition expert Karen Bolderman, RD, LDN, CDE; this book is designed for health care providers who teach people with diabetes about carbohydrate counting. It provides a comprehensive understanding of the ins and outs of basic and advanced carbohydrate counting – today’s most popular diabetes meal planning approach.
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Paperback, 202 pages
Copyright © 2009
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Why, What, Who and How Much?
- Section 1: Basic Carbohydrate Counting
- Assessing Knowledge and Skills
- Concepts to Teach – From Basic Nutrition to Meal Planning
- Concepts to Teach – Counting Carbs, Reading Food Labels and Measuring Portions
- Basic Carbohydrate Counting Case Studies
- Section 2: Advanced Carbohydrate Counting
- Concepts to Teach – Advanced Carbohydrate Counting
- Advanced Carbohydrate Counting and Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion
- Pattern Management of Glycemic Control
- Advanced Carbohydrate Counting Case Studies
- Section 3: Related Topics
- Impact on Glycemia of Dietary Components Beyond Carbohydrate
- Impact on Glycemia of Non-Dietary Related Factors
- Blood Glucose-Lowering and Related Medications
- Process to Develop and Maintain Personal Carbohydrate Counts
- Appendix I – Resources for Carbohydrate Counting and Counts
- Appendix II – Blood Glucose Lowering Medications
- Appendix III – Sample Record Keeping Charts
Ready to Upscale Your Food Scale?
When it comes to food scales, there’s low-scale and up-scale. The low-scale ($5 - $10) type postage or “diet” scales simply help you figure a food’s weight. That’s valuable information. For example, when you weigh meats, you not only zero in on the portion you should eat but you also 'see' what certain amounts of food look (and should) look like. This improves your guestimating (as I call it) skills both at home and when you eat out.
