Maintaining a healthy diabetic diet is an essential part of controlling blood glucose levels. This segment of the eMedTV Web site explains the Diabetes Food Pyramid in detail and offers tips on following a healthy diet.
Made up of six food groups, the Diabetes Food Pyramid is a helpful diet guide for people with diabetes. This eMedTV page provides an in-depth look at this pyramid and offers and other information about healthy eating.
A diet with more grains, fruits, and vegetables, and less sweets and fats is ideal for people with diabetes. This eMedTV segment offers many helpful meal-planning tips to encourage healthy eating for diabetics.
Incorporating diabetes recipes into your diet, such as the ones in this eMedTV Web page, can be an important part of managing or preventing diabetes. A registered dietician can provide you with more recipes to help you manage blood sugar levels.
As this eMedTV article explains, a gestational diabetes diet is intended to keep blood glucose within a target range. This Web page provides general information and suggestions about following a healthy diet for women with this type of diabetes.
This eMedTV article provides a gestational diabetes sample menu for a woman who weighed between 130 and 135 pounds before becoming pregnant. These are guidelines only -- not every gestational diabetes sample menu is right for every woman.
