Healthy eating with diabetes

1. February 17, 2018

2. Know if
your at
RISK
Family History: DM,
HPN, other diseases
Eat the
Right
kind of
FOOD
Less carbs and
oil; more
veggies
Stay
FIT
Exercise regularly;
maintain Normal
Weight
Visit your
doctor
regularly

3. Let’s be familiar with terms:
 Glucose – simple form of sugar
 Insulin – hormone that utilizes glucose into
energy
- produced in the pancreas (balabag)
- secreted when glucose is present in the
body
 Diabetes – disorder of metabolism with note of
hyperglycemia (“elevated blood sugar level”)

4. Diabetes
 Elevated glucose level
◦ Decreased insulin sensitivity to glucose
◦ Decreased insulin production
◦ Increased intake of glucose or glucose
production
◦ Decreased glucose utilization

5. Where is glucose found?
 Diet  high carbohydrate diet
 Liver cells – glycogen (stored carbohydrate)
glucose
 Fat cells  lipolysis  glucose
 Stored Proteins glucose (last source)

6. CRITERIA FOR DIABETES MELLITUS

7. INCIDENCE OF DM
 Increases overtime in recent years
 Increases with increasing prevalence
of obesity
 Increasing number of fastfood chains

8. IS BETTER
THAN CURE!!!

10. Lifestyle change
 Diet
 Exercise (30minutes/day, five times a
week)

11. A HEALTHY DIET
INCLUDES:
Fruits
Vegetables
Fiber-containing foods

12. Diet
 Low fat and low carbohydrate diet
 Limit trans fat, saturated fatty acid
 Monitor carbohydrate intake in terms of calories
 Avoid nonnutrient sweeteners
 Avoid food supplements, vitamin supplements,
antioxidants

16. Make your own nutritional
place mat!