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Diet |
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Getting your diet right is central to the treatment of your diabetes. Below are some basic dietary guidelines and details of how to be referred to a dietitian for individual, detailed advice.
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Referrals To Dietetic Services In Nottingham |
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You may be referred to the hospital specialist dietitian at Queen's Medical Centre campus or at City Hospital by your hospital Diabetes Team.
If you do not attend hospital clinics you may be referred to the community dietetic services by your own GP. Dietetic clinics are held in health centres and clinics throughout Nottingham.
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Advice From The Primary Care Team |
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If you do not attend hospital clinics you may receive dietary advice from your GP or practice nurse or they can refer you to the community dietetic service. Dietetic clinics are held in health centres and GP clinics throughout Nottingham.
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Initial dietary advice |
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You may already have been referred to a dietitian who will give you individual advice about your diet.
In the meantime, follow these general guidelines:
It is very important to have regular meals throughout the day, preferably 3 meals a day and a snack at bedtime .
Each meal should contain some starchy carbohydrate food.
Examples of starchy foods are cereals, bread, potatoes, rice and pasta.
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Sugary foods to avoid |
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Sugar
Glucose
Sweets
Chocolate
Sweet puddings
Sweets in syrup
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Jam
Marmalade
Honey
Syrup
Sweet biscuits
Treacle
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Lucozade
Sugary cordials
Sugary fizzy drinks
Lemon curd
Sweet pastries
Fancy cakes
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Alternatives |
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Diet, sugar free or low calorie drinks and reduced sugar jam and marmalade are better alternatives.
If you normally have sugar in drinks try without - alternatively any of the following sweeteners are suitable:
Sweetex
Hermaseters
Canderel
Sweet 'N' Low
Supermarket own brand sweeteners
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Diabetic foods |
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These are expensive and not essential - don't be tempted to buy.
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Alcohol
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If you wish to have a drink, have only small amounts of beer, lager, dry wine, dry sherry or spirits. Use sugar free mixers. There is no advantage in buying diabetic beer or lager.
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General Healthy Eating
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General healthy eating guidelines apply to everybody, not just people with diabetes. The picture below shows different food groups and the proportion of each group that should be eaten for a healthy diet. For further details please see Diabetes UK.
Reproduced with kind permission of the Food Standards Agency.
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