Diets for Diabetics

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Maintaining a healthy diabetic diet is an essential part of controlling blood glucose levels. This segment of the eMedTV website explains the Diabetes Food Pyramid in detail and offers tips for developing a diabetic diet.

Made up of six food groups, the Diabetes Food Pyramid is a guide that describes what and how much to eat each day. This eMedTV page provides an in-depth look at the Diabetes Food Pyramid and other information about healthy eating.

Healthy eating for diabetics means eating more grains, fruits, and vegetables, while eating less meat, sweets, and fats. This eMedTV page offers meal planning tips to encourage healthy eating for diabetics.

Incorporating diabetes recipes into your diet, such as the ones in this portion of the eMedTV website, can be an important part of managing or preventing diabetes. A registered dietician can provide you with more diabetes recipes.

A gestational diabetes diet is intended to keep blood glucose within a target range. This section of the eMedTV library provides general information and suggestions about following a healthy gestational diabetes diet.

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.