Friday, December 7, 2012

What is the best FREE 1400 calorie diabetic diet to follow which affords a high rate of weight loss?

Q. If you are a diabetic, please offer diet suggestions you've been successful with or offer suggestions from a close friend or relative who is a diabetic.

A. South Beach Diet, definitely. My husband and my brother are both diabetic and their doctors recommended the South Beach Diet. My husband lost the 20 pounds he needed to lose, my brother lost 60 pounds. It's balanced and full of good, healthy foods. It's not one of those obsessively low carb diets.

Both of them have had such awesome success with it that they are now able to control their diabetes strictly with diet and are off of all diabetes medications!

It's totally free in that you prepare your own meals. You can check the book out from the library along with several South Beach cookbooks, and there are free South Beach support forums and communities on the internet.

Best of luck to you!


Where can I find free recipes for diabetic that are super easy to make and buy what is needed to make them?
Q. I am needing some recipes that are for diabetic. I am on a very low fixed income so the ingredences needs to be cheap. I have more time than money. So I don't care if it takes a while to make things. Plus I do love to cook. If you know of a free web site that I can do a whole menu for a month on that would be super. Or even a group that I could join as well to help me with this.

A. Here is a web site with recipes..............

http://vgs.diabetes.org/recipe/index.jsp

Here is a site with both recipes and menus...........

http://www.diabetic-recipes.com/

Here is a site with 5300 or more diabetic recipes...............

http://www.diabetic-recipes.com/

Here is a site with quick, easy and cheap diabetic recipes...........

http://www.diabetic-lifestyle.com/articles/apr03_dinne_1.htm

This site has a meal manager...........

http://www.dlife.com/dLife/do/recipe/RecipeMain

I hope some of these help you.

Good luck.


How important is it that a diabetic eat on time?
Q. My brother, sister-in-law & nephew have a diabetic cat. When I take care of my nephew I also take care of their cat. Sometimes when my nephew and I are out we get back 15 min to 30 min late for for the cat's 1:00 feeding. Last time I actually got back an hour late.

Is this bothering the cat or not? It's hard to tell with him, since he just lays around all day, and sleeps.

Would he be feeling worse?

The diabetes has goten much better and he doesn't need to be given insulin anymore. It's controled by diet.

A. It depends on how the diabetes is treated.

It is less important for diet controlled diabetics and type 2 diabetics who do not take insulin or sulfonurea oral meds to eat on time. This is because sulfonurea drugs actively cause the pancreas to make more insulin which lowers the blood sugar and must be counterbalanced by eating, which raises the blood sugar. If a diabetic takes an insulin injection that is supposed to lower the sugar after a meal, and they don't eat the meal, then their sugar goes too low.

This is especially a problem with the longer acting insulins. If an insulin lasts 12 or 24 hours and the person taking it does not stay on schedule, then there could be problems.

One advantage of a diabetic who has an insulin pump is that they have no long acting insulin in their body, and the insulin they do have acts so quickly that they can actually take it AFTER they eat if they had to. That way they know exactly how much insulin to take and it works so quickly they can be much more flexible with their schedule.

To answer your question...I am not a vet, but I imagine an hour late would not bother the cat any more than it would bother any other cat.


What's the difference between diabetic and regular shoes?
Q. Is there any difference between a diabetic show and a regular shoe besides the diabetic insert that goes into the shoe?

A. Diabetic Shoes

Shoes for diabetic patients are made of special protective inserts and soft shoe materials to accommodate for conditions such as neuropathy (numb feet), poor circulation, and foot deformities (bunions, hammertoes, etc.). The shoes decrease the chance of foot sores (ulcers) which can be caused by friction and pressure. This may lead to infection, gangrene, or even amputation.

The foot and ankle surgeon may measure the diabetic patient's foot and have the shoes made at a specialty laboratory. In some cases he/she will give the patient a prescription to have the shoes custom-made.





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