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Meal Planning, Food and Diet

How do sugar alcohols affect your blood sugar and insulin requirements? Do you subtract the sugar alcohols?

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Where can I find information on preparing foods my pre-school daughter will not refuse? She has borderline diabetes.

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Just diagnosed with type 2, my friend was put on once a day metformin. Could she take it twice a day? What meal plan should she have for her work nights? She works three 12-hour night shifts, then has four days off.

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How do I use insulin, eat carbohydrates, and drink water with the need to reduce calories and increase my activity level for weight loss?

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My 22-year-old son was just diagnosed. He is depressed and doesn’t want to seek medical help. What can I do to help him? What kinds of foods can he have?

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Are you aware of any research studies showing that a high protein diet causes damage to otherwise healthy kidneys in type 1 or type 2 diabetics?

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My 18 year old son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes 3 weeks ago. Everywhere we look for nutrition guidance, the emphasis seems to be on how to lose weight. We would like any pointers on low carbohydrate foods that will put some weight on my son.

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My stepdaughter is 14. Her endocrinologist’s staff tells her she can eat whatever she wants between meals, so long as she takes a shot. How much is too much insulin to take in one day? And what will the long term effect of this be on her body?

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How would the amount of caloric increase in a cardiac diet for an elderly person with Type 1 diabetes that has a fever, plus a wound infection be determined?

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I’m 15 who was diagnosed a month ago, and I was wondering are there any “free foods” that can be eaten that don’t affect your blood sugar?

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