Free ResourcesFood Facts and Resources
Since maintaining a healthy weight is so important, we are providing you with some resources that will help you to make smarter choices. To prevent diabetes your diet should consist of high fiber, low fat, low glycemic, and overall low calorie foods.
- Fat and calorie information on more than 1,500 foods (including regional foods around the United States Read Now
- Not all carbs are created equal. Learn how eating the right carbs can help you lose weight, feel fuller longer, manage blood sugar levels, and improve your overall health. Using the glycemic index (GI) you can chose carbs that work for you, not against you. Learn more and see the GI of some popular foods .Read Now
- Your cheat list of some high fiber foods to add to your diet Read Now
- Healthy Recipes and food options GO TO
- 10 Healthy Eating Tips everybody should know Read Now
Publications
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FOR PEOPLE WANTING TO PREVENT DIABETES
It's Never Too Early to Prevent Diabetes. A Lifetime of Small Steps for a Healthy Family.
Tips to help women with a history of gestational diabetes prevent or delay type 2 diabetes, and to help their children lower their risk for the disease
English version
Spanish version
Diabetes Prevention Tip Sheets: Each of the following tip sheets are tailored for groups with the highest risk for developing diabetes, but the information provided is valuable for anyone that wants to prevent diabetes.
Tips to help people at risk for type 2 diabetes move more and eat less
- More than 50 Ways to Prevent Diabetes (for African Americans)
- Prevent type 2 Diabetes. Step by Step (for Hispanics/Latinos)
- We Have the Power to Prevent Diabetes (for American Indians/Alaska Natives)
- It's Not Too Late to Prevent Diabetes (for Older Adults)
- Get Real! You Don't Have to Knock Yourself Out to Prevent Diabetes (for General Audience)
FOR PEOPLE DIAGNOSED WITH DIABETES
You Are the Heart of Your Family... Take Care of It.
The link between diabetes and heart disease
Bilingual (Spanish/English)
4 Steps to Controlling Your Diabetes for Life
What to do if you were recently diagnosed with diabetes, or you just want better control.
English version I Spanish version
Tips to Help You Stay Healthy
Gives you a four-part action plan
English version
Tips for Helping a Person with Diabetes
Provides you with practical suggestions for helping loved ones with diabetes
English version I Spanish version
If You Have Diabetes Know Your Blood Sugar Numbers
Learn about the A1c test and self-monitoring blood glucose
English version I Spanish version
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Here are some additional articles or resources:
- Economic cost of diabetes in the U.S. in 2007
- NIH supports study about friends influencing obesity
- Diabetes Prevention Program- Lifestyle Change is the most effective
- Pre-diabetes is worth treating
- Support system leads to better diet
- Sodium - Are you getting too much?
- Scientist Discovers Skinny Gene
- BMI Chart
79 million people have prediabetes and most don't even know it. If not stopped, they will soon develop full-blown diabetes. We are committed to educating those at-risk and empowering them to make positive lifestyle changes to prevent diabetes.
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Shattering the Silence
My aunt Gloria, the center and strength of our family, was needlessly taken by diabetes - the Silent Killer. For years diabetes ruthlessly attacked her body, making an already petite woman increasingly fragile. We watched as her health deteriorated, but we didn't know the reason why. She suffered in silence. She experienced chest pains and extreme exhaustion but said nothing.
Only after an infected stubbed toe, did she reveal that she had diabetes. She went to the hospital to have it examined. My aunt Gloria never came home again. She had a heart attack in the hospital before her toe had been treated. Her cause of death may have been diabetes, but I'd say silence was death's accomplice.
M.B San Diego, CA