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EATING TO HELP YOUR DIABETES – the first steps
GUIDELINES TO BE FOLLOWED UNTIL YOU SEE THE DIETITIAN
- Have regular meals - breakfast, lunch and evening meal.
- Include some starchy food e.g. bread, potato, rice/pasta, cereal at each meal.
- Have your normal amounts of bread and potato. Eat plenty of vegetables.
- Try to use wholemeal bread instead of white.
- Try high fibre breakfast cereals such as porridge, weetabix, branflakes, etc. Avoid sugar-coated cereals.
- Do not add sugar to any food or drink. If necessary use an artificial sweetener such as canderel, hermesetas or sweetex etc.
- Reduce your sugar intake by avoiding sugar, sweets, chocolate, cakes, sweet biscuits, jam, marmalade, honey, jelly, fruit tinned in syrup.
- Drink low calorie sugar- free squash or sugar-free/diet lemonade or fizzy drinks rather than the ordinary types.
- Choose plain biscuits, e.g. Rich Tea, Marie, Digestives, Hobnobs, Ginger-nuts, in preference to chocolate or cream ones.
- Have low fat, sugar-free yogurts, fresh fruit or fruit tinned in natural juice for puddings.
- Cut down on the total amount of fat in your diet by using less butter, margarine, cheese. Grill rather than fry food
- Use semi – skimmed or skimmed milk instead of whole milk
- Avoid buying special diabetic foods
This is just temporary advice. Please ask your doctor or nurse to refer you to a Registered Dietitian for further information
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