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No Need to Delete Sugars and Sweets
This guest blog was written on request for appforhealth.com in response to Julie's blog A Week to Beat Your Cravings for Sweets. I want to thank Julie for being open to dialoging about key nutrition topics:
Can people be “sugar addicted”? Not likely! But are we slurping, sipping and chewing too much sugar? Absolutely!
American Heart Association research shows that as of 2009 Americans down, on average, 22 teaspoons of sugar per day (Dietary sugars intake and cardiovascular health. (Not surprising when one 20 ounce soft drink contains 15 teaspoons!)
Warshaw joins team of dietitians blogging on HEALTHSIMPLE COMMUNITY's facebook page
Submitted by hopew on Wed, 12/16/2009 - 15:27Warshaw joins group of high profile dietitians/nutrition experts to blog on the HEALTHSIMPLE Community's facebook. This community is dedicated to supporting people's efforts to make the all important behavior changes to live healthier and healthfully. Warshaw's blogs deal with current food, eating and nutrition dilemmas for which she offers commonsense and practical solutions.
Primer on Sugar Alcohols
Confused about, as a client referred them: “those sugar alcohols”? If so, check out my cut to the chase answers below:
What are Sugar Alcohols?
Sugar alcohols, also called polyols, are neither sugar or alcohol. They’re called sugar alcohols because part of their structure resembles sugar and part alcohol. Keep in mind they do contain carbohydrate.
Diabetes Meal Planning Made Easy
- confused about your need to limit carbohydrates?
- burdened juggling glucose, blood pressure and heart problems?
- frustrated trying to improve your eating habits?
- baffled by food labels?
Diabetes Meal Planning Made Easy, now in its 4th edition, is a best selling book that offers exactly what you'll need to know to eat healthier and plan healthier meals whether you have pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes. It's an invaluable, as well as practical, resource you shouldn't be without. This book includes latest nutrition recommendations for people with diabetes.
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4th edition
Paperback, 360 pages
Copyright © 2010
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Nutrition and Healthy Eating Basics
- A Few Bites about Diabetes
- The Nutrients Big and Small
- Healthy Eating Guidelines: One Prescription for All
- Healthy Eating: A Prescription for People with Diabetes
- Personalize Your Healthy Eating Plan
- Vitamins, Minerals, and Dietary Supplements
- Blood Pressure Control: Sodium, Potassium, and More
- Foods by Group
- Starches
- Vegetables
- Fruits
- Milk and Yogurt
- Meat and Meat Substitutes
- Fats
- Sugars and Sweets
- Beverages: Nonalcoholic
- Beverages: Alcoholic
- Combination, Convenience, and Free Foods
- Put Healthy Eating into Action
- Change Your Eating Behaviors Slowly but Surely
- Planning: A Key to Healthy Eating
- Control Your Portions
- Lean on the Food Label
- Skills and Strategies for Healthy Restaurant Eating
- Get the Know-How and Support You Need
Stevia Gets FDA's Nod
Yesterday (12/17/08) the U.S. FDA sent a "No Objection Letter" to Merisant's Whole Earth Sweetener company and to Cargill, Inc., responding to their long awaited request to market a highly purified form of Stevia known as Reb A (rebaudioside A). Translated this letter means that FDA has no objection to the conclusion that both companies reached independently using the GRAS self-affirmation process: that Reb A is generally recognized as safe among qualified experts for use in beverages, foods and tabletop sweeteners.
