Diabetes Cookbook For DummiesDiscover how to eat a well-balanced diabetic diet Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies gives you everything you need to create healthy and diabetic-friendly meals. In this revised and updated edition, you'll discover how easy it is to manage diabetes through diet. With tons of new recipes—many of them vegetarian—and the latest information on diabetes testing, monitoring, and maintenance, this book will help guide you down a path to a healthier you. With an anticipated price tag close to $3.4 billion annually by the year 2020, diabetes is one of the costliest health hazards in the U.S. If you're one of the 25.8 million Americans suffering from diabetes, this hands-on, friendly guide arms you with the most up-to-date nutritional information and shows you how to start cooking—and eating—your way to better health.
If you're diabetic and want to learn how to make lifestyle changes that count, Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies shows you how the food you eat can help treat, prevent, and manage diabetes. |
Contents
Introduction 1 | 3 |
How What You Eat Affects Your Diabetes | 19 |
Lentil Soup with Spinach PotatoLeek Soup | 24 |
Planning Meals for Your Weight Goal Chapter 4 Eating What You Like 37 | 37 |
Stocking Up with the Right Ingredients | 56 |
How the Supermarket Can Help | 61 |
The bakery Produce | 62 |
Deciphering the Mysterious Food Label Making Good Choices | 68 |
Black Bean Pie Chawan Mushi Egg Custard and Clams | 227 |
Poultry Moist and Delicious | 229 |
Chicken Scampi | 234 |
Eating Meat Occasionally | 243 |
Filling your freezer with treats | 258 |
Selecting seafood | 265 |
Making Room for Dessert | 271 |
Eating Healthy Away from Home | 280 |
The Benefits of Breakfast | 73 |
Stocking Up on Baked Goods | 79 |
Hors dOeuvres and First Courses Off to a Good Start | 91 |
The Benefits of Soup | 109 |
Serving Up Soups with Stocks and Other Essentials | 113 |
Creating Creamy Concoctions | 121 |
The Versatility of Salads | 129 |
Stocking Up on Grains and Legumes | 153 |
Letting Legumes into Your Diet | 166 |
Southwestern Hummus | 171 |
The Key Role of Vegetables | 173 |
Blanching vegetables for optimum taste and nutrition | 181 |
Giving Veggies the Gourmet Treatment | 191 |
Asian Vegetable StirFry | 193 |
Expanding Your Meal Options with Vegetarian Entrees | 197 |
with Creamy Polenta | 202 |
Fish Good Protein Good Fat | 205 |
Eating Healthy Away from Home | 287 |
Georgia Down the West Side of the State | 305 |
The Part of Tens | 313 |
Your Eating Habits | 315 |
Avoiding HighFat Dairy Products and Added Fat in Recipes | 329 |
Ten Keys to a Normal Blood Glucose | 333 |
Appendixes Appendix A Restaurant Descriptions | 349 |
Appendixes | 350 |
Rock Shrimp Ceviche | 351 |
Rathbuns | 355 |
Restaurant Descriptions Appendix B Glossary of Key Cooking Terms | 361 |
Other Recipe Sources for People with Diabetes | 369 |
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