What diet should I follow if I have type 1 diabetes?

Making healthy food choices is important in diabetes treatment. In ‘Diabetes diet: what should I eat if I have type 2 diabetes,’ we have outlined 7 important changes you can make to you diet.

There are so many helpful tips in this article! We cover some clever ways to reduce the carbohydrate content of the meals you are eating, without losing any flavour.

There are so many helpful tips in this article! We cover some clever ways to reduce the carbohydrate content of the meals you are eating, without losing any flavour.

The link between diabetes and diet isn’t so simple. Food and nutrition do play a role when developing diabetes. But what does the evidence say?

This article is great for those who like a little history! The article talks about how the treatment of diabetes has changed over the years, starting from 1500 BCE!

Yo-Yo dieting can be harmful to your health. A correlation has been found with yo-yo dieting and heart disease! You can read about the Framingham Heart Study in this article.

Looking for some really quick tips on how to make simple changes to your diet and exercise? We have them here and it involves the whole family!

Remember: thin doesn’t necessarily equal healthy. And this was confirmed in a new report which showed that a poor diet is one of the highest contributing factors to chronic disease in Australia, second only to smoking!

Typically, people who are tuned in to their hunger cues are able to stop eating when they are satisfied and won’t eat again until they become hungry. This is referred to as intuitive eating. But even intuitive eaters will sometimes override their fullness signals for certain triggers.

Have you ever felt like your food preference or portion sizes were almost out of your control? It is possible that in some way they are. The difficult thing is eating can be driven by our mind instead of being a behaviour to reduce physical feelings of hunger and to stay alive and well.

While the best way to manage a hypo is to prevent one happening in the first place, preparing for a hypo is the next best thing. As soon as your BGLs drop below 4mmol/L (72mg/dL), you need to act, as an untreated hypo can turn into a medical emergency very quickly.