What foods must a Diabetic Avoid ! and what can they eat alot of?

What can a diabetic eat (alot of)
What should I diabetic (avoid at all costs)

examples of foods is greatly appreciated. I do not know about starch and carbs and stuff, a link explaining that would also be greatly appreciated.

There's a handy chart of common foods linked below. Anything in the green has a low glycemic index/glycemic load. For example, I eat a ton of salad for dinner and not much pasta or bread. For lunch, I have a whole grain bread sandwich with a turkey slice, several leaves of spinach and a slice of swiss cheese. For breakfast, a handful of nuts, some dried apricots and a banana or a bowl of oatmeal with cinnamon and blueberries.

Here's the link: http://www.mendosa.com/gi.htm

Read up on GI/GL before you download the chart to Excel... that way you'll understand what's going on better.

There's nothing you can't have... you just have to account for the Calories from carbohydrates which includes sugar. I have between 400 and 600 Calories from sugar every day. I just make sure it's sugar from fruits not from C&H.

A great source of info on this can be found in Dr. Joel Fuhrman's book, "Eat to Live". He's been helping type two diabetics get off medication for years. I just quit all medication in December. I have more energy, feel much better, and do things I couldn't do before. I'm 56 and feel like I'm in my thirties. It's all about nutrition. More here:
http://drfuhrman.com/

Also, check out my diabetes blog here:
http://www.geocities.com/seabulls69/Type...

you can eat a lot of veggies and fresh fruits, but avoid pasta, potatoes and bread.

the ADA(American Diabetic Association) would be a good place to link to, or contact your local hospital and talk to the dietitian. They will be able to help you with meal planning.

your best bet is to contact your doctors nurse, who should be able to give you the names of people you can get information from.

You can eat A LOT of green vegetables as Mr Peechy says.
Avoid refined sugar AT ALL COSTS.You do need a balanced diet INCLUDING carbohydrate to stay healthy.

WHAT YOU CAN HAVE: You can eat a lot of: pulses (lentils, beans etc) as these break down slowly into blood sugars. Vegetables and salads, the rawer the better. Steam them instead of boiling, for example. Potatoes are OK in SMALL portions, but not using fat to cook - no roasties, for example, and don't use butter or any other fat to make mash. A little skimmed milk and a lot of elbow grease makes great mash. You can have chips maybe once a month! Basmati rice is ok, but brown rice, weirdly is really not so good. Fruit (but avoid very sweet fruit like mangoes and grapes and fruit juice, as these often have sugar added, or concentrate the sugar too much). Fish, especially oily fish like mackarel and salmon - grilled or poached - NOT fried and especially not battered, apart from as a VERY occasional treat, with those chips!). SMALL portions of very lean meat. Some beef steaks, for example, but go for rump rather than sirloin and CUT THE FAT OFF. Same with pork/bacon - small portions, but get rid of the fat before you grill it (don't fry!). Chicken - remove the skin before cooking portions. Cereals, especially porridge/oats, but use fruit (eg bananas) to sweeten, rather than sugar, jam or honey. WHOLEMEAL or GRANARY bread is ok - not too much though (and cut out the butter - only have a very thin scraping of low-fat spread). Mass-produced white bread is a real no-no. Ryvita and other similar crackers are fine. Alcohol is OK if you eat at the same time and keep it down to one or two glasses of wine, for example, and stick to drinks that are not sweet. One of the keys here is to not eat a lot. Eat smaller meals and more often. Have regular snacks between meals like fruit or similar.

WHAT YOU CAN'T HAVE: Everything you like. NO sweets, cakes, sweet puddings, ice cream (go for frozen yoghurt sweetened with fruit instead). Nothing that's obviously sweet. High-fat foods eg pizza, kebab, burgers, chips, pastry goods like sausage rolls, pork pies, scotch eggs etc. Curries are not great, unless they are fresh-cooked, using very little fat. Avoid processed food - white bread, ready meals, all that stuff. They are generally packed with sugar, salt and fat. Healthy option ready meals usually just substitute fat with sugar, so would not be healthy for diabetics - READ AND UNDERSTAND THE LABEL.

Part of the way of controlling diabetes is to lose weight and exercise, as well as remembering your medication. Listen to your doctor/diabetes nurse and be honest - there's no point trying to cheat - you'll only be cheating yourself.

Look at the Diabetes UK and British Heart Foundation websites - they'll have loads more info.

Pasta and pizzas (high carbs) raise blood sugars.

There are a number of good sites explaining the program of food planning on the internet.

http://www.mendosa.com for the Glycemic Index is great.
http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/Newl... has some good suggestions for how to plan and test.

A good book to read is "Type 2 Diabetes: The First Year" It explains a bunch of things you need to take into consideration. It saved me a lot of frantic calls to my doctors offices.

Testing: prepare a food to eat at snack time. Test your glucose level and record it, eat the food and test again 90 minutes to 2 hours after the first test. If it spikes your glucose more than say 50 points, decide whether you want to keep the food in your food plan or delete it. You might just decide that the food needs to be eaten in smaller quantities and much less frequently.

We can eat EVERY food on this earth.

We plan by counting carbs serving sizes , medication and exercise.

Mr Peachy is right.

I'm a type 1 diabetic and my diet is a little different but not much. There's nothing I can eat that will ever allow me to get off medications (I must take insulin...there is no other option). I'm on a new diet because I quit smoking...but the resulting 18 pounds are going to be lost.

Refined sugars are a definite no-no.

There aren't too many things that I can think of that you absolutely should not eat. Make sure you have a balanced diet, with appropriate caloric intake and a good carb/protein ratio. Some things that you should avoid include caffeine, carbonated drinks, candy (an occasional treat is okay...same with cookies or cake) and sugared cereals (don't buy the Froot Loops).

Mr Peachy and I have been known to disagree in the past but when he is right, I support what he says. He is quite knowledgeable...we just have different types of diabetes and our treatment/medication regimens are very different.

See if you can meet with a diabetic educator/nutritionist. There is really to much information for me to list here. Good luck to you and remember...many of us here are diabetics and if we can't answer your questions, at least we can try to refer you to the resources that can.

EMT

PS The American Diabetes Association website (www.diabetes.org) has some really good recipes. I've tried a few and I enjoyed them.