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Eating Well

As a person with diabetes, you make important decisions every day about food. What you eat has a greater impact on your blood sugar than anything else you do.

You can meet this daily challenge by meal planning. With a meal plan, you can make choices when eating at home, grocery shopping and dining out. By working with your healthcare professional and learning about nutrition and the effect of food on blood glucose, you can turn meal planning into a pleasurable experience.

Most food turns into sugar—or blood glucose—before entering the bloodstream. Insulin then helps blood glucose move from the bloodstream into your body’s cells—from your brain to your muscles—where it is used for energy. Without insulin to unlock those cells and let sugar in, your body does not get the nourishment it needs, and excess sugar stays in the bloodstream.

When you eat, you put fuel into your body. That is why your blood sugar rises after you eat and why many people with diabetes need to use insulin near mealtimes. The insulin moves the blood sugar from the bloodstream to the cells, where it can be used.

Planning what, when and how much you eat plays a key part in keeping your blood sugar levels in the range your healthcare professional has set for you.

 

Maintaining a Healthy Weight

If you have diabetes, maintaining a healthy weight positively impacts your health.1

It is important to involve your healthcare professional in weight-loss efforts. This is especially important if you have type 1 diabetes, because losing weight involves virtually every aspect of your diabetes self-care program, including your meal plan, physical activity and insulin.

Some people gain weight when they begin using insulin, as your body may be trying to restore itself to a healthy weight. By working with your healthcare professional, you can set up a plan to maintain a healthy weight and achieve weight-loss goals.

1 International Dieabtes Foundation. Fact Sheet Diabetes and Obesity. Available at: http://www.idf.org/home/index.cfm?node=1207. Accessed November 17, 2008.

 

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