Food and Drink
The main diabetes issues regarding food and drink to consider are eating a healthy, well balanced diet and seeing how different foods are likely to affect your blood glucose levels.
The dietary advice given to people with diabetes is not much different to the dietary advice for people without diabetes. The main issues to consider are eating a healthy, well balanced diet and seeing how different foods are likely to affect your blood glucose levels.
Finding alternative ingredients to sugar that do not raise blood glucose levels, learning about the glycaemic index classification of carbohydrate-containing foods, and understanding the effect alcohol has on the body, may also be useful in living a healthy life.
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A healthy diet for someone with diabetes is the same as a healthy diet for anyone else. Find out what foods are best and what to avoid. |
Making small changes to our diet and lifestyle can help delay or prevent us from developing Type 2 diabetes.
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Understanding the effect alcohol has on the body is recommended, and if you are going to drink, it is advisable to test blood glucose levels regularly to get an idea of how different types of alcohol affect your glucose levels..
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The Glycaemic Index is a measure of how quickly blood glucose levels rise after eating a particular type of food.
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