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Diabetes in Adults Book

Practical Tips for People with Diabetes and Kidney Disease

Maintaining blood glucose at target is an important aspect of diabetes management. If you have chronic kidney disease, treating low blood glucose will require a little more care.

Steps to take to deal with low blood glucose.

Diet for Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease: Tips for Educators

The ‘Diabetes and Kidney Disease – Kidney Care’ section, in Chapter 13 of the Beyond the Basics (BTB) Resource, provides an outline about kidney disease in people with diabetes, with an emphasis on prevention.

Tips to help educators adapt the BTB for people with diabetes and kidney disease.

South Asian Materials for Educators

The Association’s 2008 clinical practice guidelines state that people of South Asian descent are one of the populations at a higher risk to develop type 2 diabetes. People of South Asian descent include those who are from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh and may speak Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, Gujarati, and Urdu, among many other languages.

To help health professionals to work with this population, a South Asian working group has developed the resources below. They include background information, a glossary of terms, FAQs, and the carbohydrate content of some common foods.

• Background Information for Health Professionals
  
• Nutritional Content of South Asian Foods
  
• FAQs
  
• South Asian Food Glossary
  
• South Asian Food Pictures
  
• South Asian Food Pictures (Hindi)

• South Asian Food Pictures (Punjabi)
  
• South Asian Food Pictures (Tamil)
  
• South Asian Food Pictures (Urdu)

To download individual images of South Asian foods that you can print, use the thumbnails below: