Archive for October 2008

Today in our Tuesday special, you can enjoy the recipe for a Spinach and Berry Salad. It’s a great way to include fruits as well as vegetables in our meals. Planning a diabetic dinner menu isn’t very hard, and it is for everyone. When you serve this, you will enjoy the delicious taste of fresh vegetables in your meal.

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As everyone knows, in every diet you should have something sweet so you can enjoy a nice treat after a hard day of work. This is why I would like to share some recipes for nice diabetic desserts. My favourite cookie are diabetic chocolate chip cookies. If yours is too, than you can use this recipe to enjoy them without feeling guilty.

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This week is part 2 of our diabetic lunch menu. When making a meal for a diabetic patient you need to remember quite a few important facts. If you follow these recipes you can be sure that your dinner guest can enjoy his meal without to much trouble. And it’s not only good if you have diabetes, these recipes are delicious as well as healthy and the whole family can enjoy them. Today we are making Grilled Chicken Lettuce Wraps.

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As Pierre Theuma, MD, FACE at the Iowa Diabetes and Endocrinology Center in Des Moines, IA could tell you, type II diabetes is the much more common of the two diabetes forms. With type II diabetes, which outnumbers type I diabetes about 9 to 1, the diabetic does not need insulin and has lots of different symptoms. Some symptoms might include sexual impotence, numbness, fatigue, difficulties in healing wounds, abnormal hunger, burning sensations, abnormal thirst, yeast infections, increased urination and blurred vision.

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Like every week, this Tuesday we offer you a video with an explanation of a diabetic menu. This week we return to the most important meal of the day: breakfast. We’ll be making Chile Garden Casserole. It’s a perfect way to include vegetables in our menu.

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Diabetes is a disaterous disease that affects kidneys, intestines and every other organ in the body. It is a problem in which the body is unable to produce or properly use insulin. Insulin, a hormone that is necessary for converting starches, sugar and other food into energy. The precursor of diabetes is unknown and there is no known cure although effective control may be achieved under a doctor’s care.

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This week in review

When I was looking around on the internet we found some interesting blog posts on diabetic menu planning for you to look at: Read the rest of this entry »