Good news! You can control diabetes.
Diabetes can be managed. You can successfully manage diabetes and avoid the serious health problems it can cause if you follow these steps :
• Ask your doctor how you can learn more about your diabetes to help you feel better today and in the future.
• Know your diabetes “ABCs” .
• Make healthy food choices and be physically active most days. Following this advice will help you keep off extra pounds and will also help keep your blood glucose under control.
• Check your blood glucose as your doctor tells you to.
• If you are taking diabetes medications, take them even if you feel well.
• To avoid problems with your diabetes, see your health care team at least twice a year. Finding and treating any problems early will prevent them from getting worse. Ask how diabetes can affect your eyes, heart, kidneys, nerves, legs, and feet.
• Be actively involved in your diabetes care. Work with your health care team to come up with a plan for making healthy food choices and being active—a plan that you can stick to.
Diabetes can be managed. You can successfully manage diabetes and avoid the serious health problems it can cause if you follow these steps :
• Ask your doctor how you can learn more about your diabetes to help you feel better today and in the future.
• Know your diabetes “ABCs” .
• Make healthy food choices and be physically active most days. Following this advice will help you keep off extra pounds and will also help keep your blood glucose under control.
• Check your blood glucose as your doctor tells you to.
• If you are taking diabetes medications, take them even if you feel well.
• To avoid problems with your diabetes, see your health care team at least twice a year. Finding and treating any problems early will prevent them from getting worse. Ask how diabetes can affect your eyes, heart, kidneys, nerves, legs, and feet.
• Be actively involved in your diabetes care. Work with your health care team to come up with a plan for making healthy food choices and being active—a plan that you can stick to.
Creating a healthy meal plan.
This recipe booklet is a place to start creating healthy meals. Ask your doctor to refer you to a registered dietitian or a diabetes educator who can help you create a meal plan for you and your family. The dietitian will work with you to come up with a meal plan tailored to your needs. Your meal plan will take into account things like :
• Your blood glucose levels.
• Your weight.
• Medicines you take.
• Other health problems you have.
• How physically active you are.
This recipe booklet is a place to start creating healthy meals. Ask your doctor to refer you to a registered dietitian or a diabetes educator who can help you create a meal plan for you and your family. The dietitian will work with you to come up with a meal plan tailored to your needs. Your meal plan will take into account things like :
• Your blood glucose levels.
• Your weight.
• Medicines you take.
• Other health problems you have.
• How physically active you are.
Making healthy food choices.
• Eat smaller portions. Learn what a serving size is for different foods and how many servings you need in a meal.
• Eat less fat. Choose fewer high-fat foods and use less fat for cooking. You especially want to limit foods that are high in saturated fats or trans fat, such as :
- Fatty cuts of meat.
- Whole milk and dairy products made from whole milk.
- Cakes, candy, cookies, crackers, and pies.
- Fried foods.
- Salad dressings.
- Lard, shortening, stick margarine, and nondairy
- creamers.
• A stands for A1C test. This test measures your average blood glucose levels for the past three months. Your doctor should test your A1C at least twice a year. For most people with diabetes, the goal is to have an A1C “score” of less than 7.
• B stands for blood pressure, a measurement of how hard your heart needs to work to keep your blood circulating. For most people with diabetes, the goal is to keep blood pressure below 130/80.
• C stands for cholesterol, a fat found in your blood. There are two kinds of cholesterol: LDL, or “bad” cholesterol, and HDL, or “good” cholesterol. For most people with diabetes, the goal is to keep :
• B stands for blood pressure, a measurement of how hard your heart needs to work to keep your blood circulating. For most people with diabetes, the goal is to keep blood pressure below 130/80.
• C stands for cholesterol, a fat found in your blood. There are two kinds of cholesterol: LDL, or “bad” cholesterol, and HDL, or “good” cholesterol. For most people with diabetes, the goal is to keep :
- LDL cholesterol below 100.
- HDL cholesterol above 40 (HDL for men > 40 and for women > 50).
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