3-Day Diabetes Meal Plan: 2,200 Calories

By:Victoria Seaver, M.S., R.D., C.D., Digital Meal Plan Editor
Healthy eating is the cornerstone of managing diabetes, yet it can be a challenge figuring out what to eat to balance your blood sugar. Here we've created a delicious 3-day meal plan that makes it easier to follow a diabetes diet. In this plan you'll find a mix of nutritious foods including fiber-rich complex carbohydrates, like whole grains and fresh fruits and vegetables, lean protein sources, healthy fats and dairy. This plan limits the amount of foods with refined carbohydrates (think white bread, white rice and sugar), added sugars and saturated fats, which can negatively impact your health if you eat too much. The carbohydrates are balanced throughout the day with each meal containing around 4-5 carb servings (60-75 grams of carbohydrates) and each snack containing around 1-2 carb servings (15-30 grams of carbohydrates). The calorie and carbohydrate totals are listed next to each meal and snack so you can swap foods with similar nutrition in and out as you like. Eating with diabetes doesn't need to be restrictive or complicated. Incorporating a variety of foods, as we do in this meal plan, is a healthy and sustainable approach to managing diabetes.
Meal Prep Tip:: Cook or set aside an extra 3/4 cup of black beans and 3/4 cup brown rice tonight at dinner to have for lunch on Day 2. Be sure to rinse canned beans to get rid of excess salt.
Breakfast (493 calories, 60 grams carbohydrates)
Top yogurt with walnuts, blueberries, apricots and honey.
Note: We use a small amount of added sweetener, in this ca Continue reading

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8 Diabetes Warning Signs May Appear On Your Skin

Home health diabetes 8 Diabetes Warning Signs May Appear On Your Skin
8 Diabetes Warning Signs May Appear On Your Skin
8 Diabetes Warning Signs May Appear On Your Skin
In reference to the American Diabetes Association, diabetes can affect nearly every part of the body, including the skin. Surprisingly, skin problems are the first indicators that someone is suffering from diabetes. The good news is that most diabetes warning signs can be effectively treated if they are identified at an early stage.
A couple of these problems are conditions that anyone can develop irrespective of whether they are diabetic or not, but patients with diabetes are prone. They include:
Patients with diabetes are more likely to develop bacterial infections which include:
Styes (these are infections that normally occur in the glands of eyelids)
Folliculitis (infections that occur in the hair follicles)
Carbuncles (deep infections on the skin and underlying tissues)
Inflamed tissues are usually painful, hot, red and swollen. There are several organisms that cause infections with staph (Staphylococcus bacteria) being the most common. Over the past, bacterial infections were fatal. Credit to antibiotics, death from bacterial infections is now very rare. Practicing skin good care practices can lower the risks of bacterial infections in diabetic patients. It is important to contact your doctor if you are diabetic and experiencing bacterial infections.
Candida albicans is the major culprit of fungal infections in patients living with diabetes. This is a yeast-like fungus that creates red itchy Continue reading

We need to talk more about reversal of type 2 diabetes

In 2011, a landmark study demonstrated that it is possible for people to reverse type 2 diabetes by lifestyle change. Six years later, many people have reversed their diabetes, yet many health professionals and diabetes organisations maintain the line that it is a progressive permanent condition. Meanwhile, the huge global growth in type 2 diabetes continues unabated.
A transformational change in our understanding
For many years, I worked as a Consultant Diabetologist, responsible for delivering diabetes care for the area around Bournemouth, on the South Coast of the UK. Type 2 diabetes was considered to be an inexorably progressive disease, fraught with risk of complications and ill health and requiring ever more intensive treatment. And this is what people were told when they attended the education programme set up for those newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. While many people responded to the lifestyle advice provided, the overall message was often perceived as negative, devoid of hope for the future, and demotivating, especially to those that found lifestyle change difficult.
Type 2 diabetes is not inevitably progressive. It is a condition that can be reversed by lifestyle change and weight loss.
In 2011, the Counterpoint study was published. This established that type 2 diabetes is not inevitably progressive. It is a condition that can be reversed by lifestyle change and weight loss. To me this transformational research revolutionised our understanding of type 2 diabetes. I felt that everyone with the condition, and especially everyone at diagnosis, should know that Continue reading

Diabetes Empowerment Summit 2017

WRITTEN BY: Daniele Hargenrader
What is the Diabetes Empowerment Summit?
Last year, we hosted our inaugural, free to attend, 100% online event, and the positive feedback we received from our three thousand + attendees from all over the world about how the presentations changed their lives for the better was mind-blowing.
Starting on November 1, this online summit is like getting to attend a big diabetes conference that has some of the most high caliber speakers out there, without having to pay for conference fees and travel costs, or needing to take time off work.
How will The Diabetes Empowerment Summit benefit you?
All the presenters share their best tools, systems, frameworks, lessons and more on HOW they put living in an empowered mindset with diabetes into practice, HOW they cultivate confidence in their day to day choices living with diabetes, and also what they teach their patients, clients, readers and followers in that same regard!
Some of the awesome presenters you will see on the summit, who you may have seen right here on Beyond Type 1, include Sierra Sandison, Chris Ruden, Rodney Miller, Rachel Zinman and so many more!
Starting on November 1 and continuing for five days, you can pick and choose the sessions that are meaningful to you and enjoy them from the comfort of your home computer, laptop, or tablet or from any location with your mobile device.
Why am I (and all the presenters) so passionate about creating this resource?
The reality of traditional healthcare when it comes to living with diabetes (all types) is that the mental and emotional sides of life w Continue reading

Spanning research and the clinic: top diabetes awards for Garvan leaders

Three leading diabetes researchers from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have been announced as the winners of prestigious annual awards bestowed by the Australian Diabetes Society (ADS). The awards will be presented to Professors Mark Febbraio, Jerry Greenfield and Don Chisholm AO at the 2017 Annual Scientific Meeting of the ADS and the Australian Diabetes Educators Association (ADEA) in Perth in August this year.
Professor Mark Febbraio - 2017 ADS Kellion Award
Professor Febbraio will receive the ADS Kellion Award, which is awarded annually by the Kellion Foundation and the ADS, to an Australian who has made an outstanding contribution to diabetes research. Prof Febbraio, who is Head of Garvan’s Diabetes and Metabolism Division, is being recognised for significant advances he has made in deciphering the molecular mechanisms that underlie the protective effects of physical activity, and how they can be used to treat metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes. Of particular importance is his pivotal discovery, nearly 15 years ago, that skeletal muscle is an endocrine organ capable of secreting proteins termed ‘myokines’. Prof Febbraio’s ongoing research efforts include pre-clinical and clinical investigations of many identified myokines as personalised treatments for complex metabolic diseases.
As recipient of the award, Prof Febbraio will deliver the ADS Kellion Plenary Lecture at the ADS/ADEA Annual Scientific Meeting.
2017 marks the fourth year that a Garvan researcher has been honoured with this prestigious award; previous recipients include Professor Do Continue reading