[Sca-cooks] Diabetic diet OOP (was: Dinner last night & Valentine's Day)

[Mike Newton]

Of Course once you get away from the Sugar intensive foods, you have to
start to worry about Cholestoral. so it is a double edged sword and since I
have both problems that is why it gets expensive. Not to mention the
medications.

Thorbjorn
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Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 11:13 AM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Diabetic diet OOP (was: Dinner last night & Valentine's
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> Someone asked about how to handle suspected diabetes, and Phlip gave
> a lot of good advice. I had gestational diabetes with my second
> pregnancy, sufficiently mild to be diet-controlled. My advice on that
> basis:
>
> Plan ahead more than you usually would. Make sure that the hardboiled
> egg or the chunk of cheese is available when you need to eat it--if
> you leave planning until you are already feeling limp, you won't eat
> right.
>
> Go for sharp flavors rather than sweets: soy sauce, chili pepper,
> etc. Healthy food doesn't have to be dull. If you have healthy food
> you like, you are more likely to eat it.
>
> Try to make sure that the carbohydrates you do eat are fiber-rich,
> things like whole wheat flour or lentils. If you absolutely have to
> eat something sweet, eat it in combination with other foods rather
> than all by itself.
>
> Thorbjorn said that "healthy foods are not cheap". My experience is
> actually the opposite. While eating a meat-heavy diet is more
> expensive than a starch-heavy diet, eggs are cheap; veggies are
> cheap; and anything that moves you from eating more packaged and
> restaurant food toward eating more food you cook yourself saves a lot
> of money.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Elizabeth/Betty Cook
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