Does anyone have a good site that details what type 2 diabetics can and cannot eat? Thanks.?

There's nothing that diabetics simply CANNOT eat. It's more about eating an overall healthy, balanced diet. Avoid simple carbohydrates as much as possible. Make sure to get plenty of fiber.

If you're going to be cooking on a regular basis for someone with diabetes, I'd suggest reading the American Diabetes Association section "What Can I Eat?" which is linked below. Basically, what diabetics should eat is the same as the healthy diet we all should be eating.

Mr. Hambone I am very sorry to say this as I do not ever wish to speak ill of another person. When Tin S became not only a Top Contributor but THE Top Contributor I stopped participating in this forum for nearly a week. His opinions are occasionally reasonable but they are most often severely biased and without any credible medical basis. Again - please let me apologize for being unkind - and 'thumbs down' to not upset me so anyone is free to attack me in this regard. The answer that stated that there is nothing that is absolutely forbidden is correct. A diabetic must eat certain substances in moderation. If you type 'low glycemic index diet' into any search engine you should be offered a remarkable number of websites that will help in this regard. In addition any 'large' bookstore will have several shelves of books on diabetic diets. Again I apologize for being 'negative'. If I may be of further assistance please let me know. I wish you the very best of health and happiness and in all things may God bless. JR

The American Diabetes Organization site

diabetes.org

You might check out Atkins. his diet is pretty much designed for diabetics - and to prevent diabetes. He has a book called "Diabetes Revolution" you can get on Amazon - probably used copies around.

Atkins is great - you don't have to starve, and it makes you feel great. You just quit eating the sugar completely. I've been doing it for the past 10 years - and I'd do it whether I had weight to lose or not.

Safely Reverse Your Diabetes : http://www.diabetestreated.com/Benefit

Hambone , here is the best site on the web. It's Mendosa's Glycemic index diet. http://www.mendosa.com/gilists.htm With this you will know what to eat and what not to eat and how much.And no carb counting. All in one week . You will have it for life.

This table includes the glycemic index and glycemic load of more than 2,480 individual food items. Not all of them, however, are available in the United States. They represent a true international effort of testing around the world.

The glycemic index (GI) is a numerical system of measuring how much of a rise in circulating blood sugar a carbohydrate triggers–the higher the number, the greater the blood sugar response. So a low GI food will cause a small rise, while a high GI food will trigger a dramatic spike. A list of carbohydrates with their glycemic values is shown below. A GI is 70 or more is high, a GI of 56 to 69 inclusive is medium, and a GI of 55 or less is low.

The glycemic load (GL) is a relatively new way to assess the impact of carbohydrate consumption that takes the glycemic index into account, but gives a fuller picture than does glycemic index alone. A GI value tells you only how rapidly a particular carbohydrate turns into sugar. It doesn't tell you how much of that carbohydrate is in a serving of a particular food. You need to know both things to understand a food's effect on blood sugar. That is where glycemic load comes in. The carbohydrate in watermelon, for example, has a high GI. But there isn't a lot of it, so watermelon's glycemic load is relatively low. A GL of 20 or more is high, a GL of 11 to 19 inclusive is medium, and a GL of 10 or less is low.

Foods that have a low GL almost always have a low GI. Foods with an intermediate or high GL range from very low to very high GI.

Both GI and GL are listed here. The GI is of foods based on the glucose index–where glucose is set to equal 100. The other is the glycemic load, which is the glycemic index divided by 100 multiplied by its available carbohydrate content (i.e. carbohydrates minus fiber) in grams. (The "Serve size (g)" column is the serving size in grams for calculating the glycemic load; for simplicity of presentation I have left out an intermediate column that shows the available carbohydrates in the stated serving sizes.) Take, watermelon as an example of calculating glycemic load. Its glycemic index is pretty high, about 72. According to the calculations by the people at the University of Sydney's Human Nutrition Unit, in a serving of 120 grams it has 6 grams of available carbohydrate per serving, so its glycemic load is pretty low, 72/100*6=4.32, rounded to 4.

There are 4 key steps to controlling glucose levels.

Here are the 4 keys:

1) Knowledge- http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/index.ph%E2%80%A6 This is a great site for info

2) Meds. Metformin to start. Never , ever take Actos or Avandia. They may kill you. Bone fractures, heart problems and what diabetics really don't need is that they change Bone Stem Cells to Fat Cells.

3)diet- A low carb diet is in order. I can't count carbs so I use Mendosa's Glycemic Index Diet. Great for the whole family. http://www.mendosa.com/gilists.htm

4) EXERCISE- Walking is fine but Nordic Walking is Great. Exercise also lowers Glucose levels , lowers Cholesterol and lowers Blood Pressure. Google it.

You take care

Tin

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