Tag Archives: nutrition

Which “diet” is best?

I listened to a wonderful lecture by David Katz, M.D., recently. Dr. Katz is an expert in nutrition and wellness, along with adult health and disease prevention. He repeated what we’ve all been hearing a lot lately: plant-based eating plans … Continue reading

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Nutrition Information

Do you read food labels? An interesting article reported that women check food labels more frequently than men. Even more important, they use the information on the food label more than men do. The authors also reported that Hispanic men … Continue reading

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Breakfast foods

Breakfast foods, at least for me, tend to be all carbohydrate foods. Cereal, toast, oatmeal, and so on. I have been reading a book about low carb lifestyle and wanted to experiment with lowering my own carbs, but what about … Continue reading

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Eat food.

Today’s D-blog Week prompt is to write about one thing I would tell someone who doesn’t have diabetes. This is actually something I do a lot. I tell people that the message is the same about food, for those with … Continue reading

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Diabetes Meal Plan – exchange system

The “exchange system” diabetes meal plan was introduced in the 1950s. I didn’t come on the diabetes scene until 1975, so I can’t comment on the early exchange days. For the first two decades of my diabetes life; however, we … Continue reading

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Exchange System

Does anyone remember the Exchange System? This is an approach to nutrition management for people with diabetes that was put together by the American Diabetes Association and the American Dietetic Association many moons ago. When I was diagnosed with type … Continue reading

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