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Nutrition
Good nutrition and healthy meal planning are vital components of diabetes management. Recognizing the challenges involved in nutrition and diabetes, the Canadian Diabetes Association offers a full breadth of resources and information, including guides, tools, resources and manuals. We provide specific information on special topics such as carbohydrate counting, alcohol, sugars and sweeteners, portion sizes, the Glycemic Index and more.
- Just the Basics
- Recipes
- Portion Guide
This easy to use guide provides ways to estimate appropriate portion sizes when planning a meal.
- Meal Planning Resource
Meal Planning for Healthy Eating, Diabetes Prevention and Management has been created to help you eat tasty and healthy meals that will promote good health and diabetes management. The manual contains information on a wide variety of topics, from eating out, to recipe makeovers, to physical activity
- Healthy Lifestyle Resource
Lifestyle Choices for Diabetes Prevention and Management will provide information to help anyone improve his or her lifestyle. The goal of this manual is to promote good health and to assist in diabetes management.
- Top 10 Tips for Tasty and Healthy Meals
Preparing food that both tastes good and is good for you is not a magic trick. A few simple meal planning and preparation tips will help you to produce healthy, delicious food that your family will love.