Diabetes cookbook : eat to treat diabetes

Full of appetising and healthy recipes for every occasion,ÊDiabetes CookbookÊincludes delicious ideas for healthier breakfasts, lunches, dinners, desserts and snacks. This fresh new cookbook is written by a qualified nutritionist and an expert recipe writer, ensuring you can rely on the advice and trust the recipes. This book will help you make healthy food choices easy with nutritional analyses of kilojoules, carbohydrates, fats and salt with every recipe. Eat well, stay healthy and take control with the Diabetes Cookbook.

Brief Synopsis

Food plays a crucial role in determining our health, vitality, and well-being. Various foods we eat are broken down into glucose, which passes into the bloodstream. Our blood glucose level should not become too high or too low, so to regulate it, the pancreas produces insulin. If you have Type 2 diabetes, youÕll know that your pancreas isnÕt producing enough insulin, or the insulin isnÕt doing its job properly. (If you have Type 1 diabetes, your body isnÕt making any insulin at all.)

It is important for everyone to eat healthily, but when you have Type 2 diabetes, diet is even more relevant. Choosing the right foods will help you to manage your condition and reduce the risk of other health problems associated with diabetes. In one study, people with Type 2 diabetes were able to reduce their blood glucose levels by an average of 25 per cent just by following a simple diet plan similar to the one we recommend. Although people often talk about healthy and unhealthy foods, there is no such thing as a good or a bad food: it is the balance of foods that you eat throughout the day that is important.

How this book can help

The recipes in this book are designed to help you achieve a healthy, balanced diet that includes wholegrains, low-GI carbohydrates, lean protein, dietary fibre, low-fat dairy products, and plenty of vegetables and fruit. They are also lower in salt, fat and sugar. All this equals a great diet, whether you have Type 2 diabetes or not.

Guidelines per serving
GI
Calories
Saturated fat
Salt
The recipes

The delicious recipes in this book are designed to help you achieve

a healthy, balanced diet that includes wholemeal, low-GI carbohydrates, lean protein, dietary fibre, low-fat dairy products, and plenty of vegetables and fruit. They are also lower in salt, fat and sugar.

A great diet Ð whether you have Type 2 diabetes or not.

Where this book goes further is in providing a ÒGuidelines per servingÓ chart for each recipe, telling you at a glance whether the recipe is relatively high (3 dots), medium (2 dots), or low (1 dot) in GI, kilojoules, saturated fat, and salt Ð the four key dietary areas to watch when you have Type 2 diabetes. So, if you choose a recipe with a relatively high GI, kilojoule count, saturated fat content, or salt content, choose dishes that are medium or low in those areas for the rest of the day.

Each recipe also has a ÒStatistics per servingÓ breakdown that gives precise details of the number of kilojoules, the number of grams of carbohydrate, sugar, fibre, and fat (total and saturated) in the recipe.

So if you really need to crunch the numbers, you can ensure that you are getting the exact balance you need. Many recipes specify only the main part of a meal, allowing you to tailor any accompaniments (such as potatoes or rice) to your own specific needs.

Now, all thatÕs left to do is choose, compare, cook and enjoy!