Type 2 Diabetes: From Old Dogmas to New Realities – Part 2
Suffice to say, dramatic changes have occurred in our understanding of the onset and progression of prediabetes over the last decade. Lightening speed changes have also occurred regarding the therapies available to achieve optimal blood glucose control.
However, even with all of this change many old dogmas hang on. It’s time to be aware of the new realities. Here I’ve focused on two common old dogmas and the new realities.
Great Carb Debate – Can Glucose Control and Healthy Eating Coexist?
I appreciate Diabetes Forecast’s effort at tackling the great carbohydrate debates in: Are Carbs the Enemy? (March 2011). How appropriate! It’s National Nutrition Month with the theme – Eat Right with Color (it’s hard to create a color palate without fruits and vegetables!).
I also appreciate the dual challenges, for people with prediabetes and diabetes, of glucose control and healthy eating. Goals which can often seem at odds.
Book Review: The PCOS Diet Plan by Hillary Wright, MEd, RD
This is one in a series of book reviews. You may find these books beneficial if you: manage prediabetes or diabetes, follow a diabetes meal plan and/or try to eat healthy to live well. These book reviews also appear on amazon.com. The books can be found in my amazon a-store. Please check them out and consider a purchase.
- Have you been diagnosed with PCOS and are looking for help?
- Are you trying to solve the mystery of your infertility?
- Are you trying to put the following signs and symptoms together to diagnose your medical problem: irregular or no periods, hair growth in unwanted places, weight gain, above normal blood glucose levels?
- Have you ever heard of PCOS?
Complete Guide to Carb Counting
- baffled by which foods contain carbohydrate and how much?
- confused about how much carbohydrate YOU need to eat each day?
- overwhelmed in the supermarket aisles reading food and nutrition labels?
- inept at where to find carb counts for your favorite foods?
The Complete Guide to Carb Counting, is the American Diabetes Association’s A-Z guide to carbohydrate counting. Carb Counting has quickly become the most popular method of meal planning for diabetes. That’s because research shows it meshes well with real life and the medications available today to manage diabetes. The book begins with answers to two key questions: what is carbohydrate and why should you carb count? Next you'll build your knowledge base about how to count carbs, how much carb to eat, how to use food labels, count carbs in restaurant foods, and much more. This book is right for you if you have type 2 diabetes and use carbohydrate counting to plan choose your foods and plan your meals. The book also has all the details you need if you use carbohydrate counting to determine your meal time insulin doses. Lastly you’ll decipher how to fine-tune your blood glucose levels by observing your blood glucose patterns (aka pattern management).
Reviews
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
Toward Healthy Lifestyles…It Takes a Village
Let me begin where I left off discussing the study which asked: What's the Diet is Best?, published in the 2/27/09 issue of New England Journal of Medicine.