Expert: Brenda Thompson
Bio: Brenda Thompson is a registered dietician and professional chef with the Westlake Market H.E.B. in Austin, Texas.
Filmmaker: Drew Noah

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Diabetes Diet Guidelines : Diabetes & Blood Sugar Regulation is a post from: Diabetic Diet Zone

Each episode includes recipes and actual time in the kitchen with our co-hosts and chefs, Lola ad Kelley. You will also hear expert advice from a prominent physician and psychologist, and you’ll get to know two people with diabetes who are successfully living their every day lives.

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Tasty Solutions for Diabetes – Breakfast Menu (part 1) is a post from: Diabetic Diet Zone

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Gestational Diabetes is a post from: Diabetic Diet Zone

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AMERICAN DIABETES OCIATION is a post from: Diabetic Diet Zone

Unlike the symptoms in diabetes type 1 and 2, gestational diabetes symptoms are hardly recognized as signs of diabetes due to the pregnant condition of a woman. They are often manifested in the form of excessive thirst and frequency in urination, but are usually treated as part of the child-bearing stage.

The main gestational diabetes symptom indicative of the disease is the elevation of the blood sugar levels. Hence, great care should be taken that high blood sugar levels should be treated with utmost urgency in order to avoid any complications that can affect the woman’s pregnant condition. The following information about gestational diabetes may be useful to any pregnant woman:

The Root Causes of Gestational Diabetes

Pregnancy involves the active participation of your placenta as it produces hormones to sustain you and the developing baby in your womb. However, these hormones have the tendency to render your cells resistant to insulin.

As you enter the second and third trimesters, the more hormones are secreted since your pregnant body demands it; this however makes it more difficult for the insulin to help your cells absorb glucose.

The pancreas tries to help by producing more insulin to thwart the insulin resistance of the cells, however, there is now an over production of insulin, which was not successful in opening the cells to glucose absorption. Glucose in the blood increases, insulin level increases yet the body cells remain wanting in glucose supplement, due to its resistance to insulin.

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You may now experience excessive thirstiness and frequently urinate to pass the excess glucose out of your system. These now are the gestational diabetes symptoms taking place.

Who are Prone to Gestational Diabetes?

1. Gestational diabetes may occur in any woman who is 25 years or older, but some women have greater risks in developing gestational diabetes.

2. Women with familial history of developing gestational diabetes from where she may have acquired the genetic deficiency.

3. Women who were pregnant before and likewise developed gestational diabetes during the previous pregnancy. Usually this is true among women whose baby weighed about 9 pounds upon delivery or those who experienced an unexplained stillbirth.

4. Pregnant women who were already overweight even before the onset of the pregnancy.

5. For unexplained reasons, statistics show that women who belonged to the following ethnicity: African, Hispanics, American Indian or Asian are prone to develop gestational diabetes during their pregnancies.

Managing Gestational Diabetes during Pregnancy

Address your pregnancy with more concern by making more trips to your health care provider for pre-natal checkups. This is very important particularly during the last three months of pregnancy for constant monitoring of your blood sugar level.

Ask your health care provider for a referral, regarding other health professionals who can help you in managing your gestational diabetes during the term of your pregnancy. This may be an endocrinologist, a registered dietitian or a diabetes educator. In extreme cases, your health care provider may refer you to a doctor who specializes in high-risk pregnancies.

These professionals can help you in all aspects of gestational diabetes to ensure that your diabetes disorder will not lead to any complications that may endanger your life and that of your baby’s.

If you are among those women who have a high risk of developing gestational diabetes, do not wait for gestational diabetes symptoms to take place before taking the proper preventive courses of action.

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Gestational Diabetes Symptoms – How To Manage Gestational Diabetes During Your Pregnancy is a post from: Diabetic Diet Zone

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Nutritional Supplements : Menu for a Child Diabetic is a post from: Diabetic Diet Zone

• * Pack of two boxes, each box containing 30 multi-vitamin and mineral supplements for diabetics (60 supplements)
• Supplies nutritional support for people with diabetes
• Provides a complete, full potency formulation of vitamins, minerals and alpha lipoic acid, green tea and lutein; contains 933% RDA of Vitamin C ; 20% of Calcium; and 100% of Vitamin D per packet serving
• Includes Vitamin E for healthy heart and immune system
• Founded in 1971, Northridge, California-based Pharmavite manufactures Nature Made vitamins and Nature’s Resource herbal products and was instrumental in developing Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) for supplements

Product Description
From the Manufacturer
The Nature Made Diabetes Health Pack is scientifically formulated to provide nutritional support for people with diabetes. Each packet includes a complete, full-potency formulation of vitamins, minerals, and alpha lipoic acid. The pack contains all of the following supplements and more: Vitamin E to maintain a healthy heart and boost the immune system; chromium picolinate for protein and fat metabolism; the antioxidant selenium; a high-potency multivitamin with essential vitamins and minerals to support the heart and digestive system; alpha lipoic acid to help activate other antioxidants. The Nature Made Diabetes Health Pack contains no artificial flavors, preservatives, chemical solvents, gluten, or sugar.

* These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

Nature Made Daily Diabetes Health Pack – 60 Packets

Nature Made Daily Diabetes Health Pack – 60 Packets is a post from: Diabetic Diet Zone

* whenever a new package of Test Strips is opened
* and daily to ensure the meter is coded correctly.
Diabetes Patient Education
In addition, a control test can be run:

* if you need to check that the whole system of the meter and the test strip is working correctly
* and to practice your good meter techniques.

* Follow the manufacturer’s instructions, which usually involves testing a control solution of sugar that is provided with the meter.

Wash your hands vigorously with soap and warm water. Rinse and dry thoroughly with a paper towel.
Remove the Test Strip from its individual package.
With the meter off, insert the correct end of the test strip into the test slot of the meter, according to the manufacturer’s instructions. This usually turns the meter on.
Remove the end-cap from the lancing device.
Insert a short lancet into the lancet holder according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Twist off the protective cap and save it for the disposal of the used lancet.
Replace the end-cap. The depth of the puncture depends on the end-cap used.
Re-cock the lancing device.
Choose your puncture site. The sides of the end segment of the finger are the best sites. Stroke down the finger to push blood toward the puncture site.
Place the end-cap firmly against the chosen puncture site on the side of the fingertip. The more pressure you use, the deeper the puncture. Push the lancet release button without moving your finger or the device.Diabetes Patient Education
After the puncture, remove the lancing device. If a drop of blood does not form on its own, stroke down the finger toward the puncture site without going as far as the site itself.
Hold the tip of the test strip in the drop of blood until the meter tells you the test strip is filled, usually by beeping. Remove the test strip from the blood. Put the device and the strip aside until the reading is complete.
Wipe the puncture site with a clean, dry facial tissue and use the tissue to hold pressure on the puncture site until the bleeding stops.
Remove the end-cap from the lancing device and remove the used lancet.
Replace the used lancet back into the protective cap by pushing it into the open end of the cap which is placed on a firm, flat surface like a counter top.
Once the blood sugar reading on the meter is complete, use the tissue to grasp the test strip and pull it out of the meter. This usually turns the meter off.
Discard the lancet in its protective cover and the used strip into a glass or puncture-proof container with a screw top or a “Sharps” Container purchased from your local pharmacy. Replace the cap on the container. When the container is full, cap it and discard it into the trash.
* Clean the lancing device weekly according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
* Only use a lancet once.
* Do not use the same end-cap on another person.
* Teach another person to use the whole system so that you have a backup when you need istance.

Diabetes Patient Education

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Diabetes Patient Education Monitoring Blood Sugar is a post from: Diabetic Diet Zone

Each episode includes recipes and actual time in the kitchen with our co-hosts and chefs, Lola ad Kelley. You will also hear expert advice from a prominent physician and psychologist, and you’ll get to know two people with diabetes who are successfully living their every day lives.

www.tastysolutions.com

For copies of this program
1-888-750-4156

For questions or comments
1-877-993-3637

NMSU Home:http://www.nmsu.edu

©2006. NMSU Board of Regents. All rights reserved.

Duration : 0:9:2

Tasty Solutions for Diabetes – Lunch Menu (part 2) is a post from: Diabetic Diet Zone

Does anyone have a Pre-Diabeties Menu they would be willing to share? is a post from: Diabetic Diet Zone