Foods like chocolate, cakes and biscuits marketed towards people with diabetes may be sugar-free, but this doesn’t make them a good choice. They are often still high in saturated fat and calories and the sweetener used can have a laxative effect if too much is eaten. These products often als...
Fruit is a healthy choice and along with vegetables, should form a large part of a healthy balanced diet. Fruit is higher in natural sugars than vegetables, but is still lower in sugar than cakes, biscuits and sweets, and it contains other nutrients and fibre. If your blood glucose levels are hig...
Type 1 diabetes isn’t caused by diet or lifestyle choices. It happens when the cells that produce insulin in the pancreas are destroyed by the immune system. Type 1 diabetes isn’t caused by diet or lifestyle choices...
Even if you don’t have to take medication to control it, Type 2 diabetes is not a mild form of diabetes. It’s important to control your condition well to avoid developing complications, which can include sight loss and even amputation as well as an increased risk of heart attack and stroke. My...
If you have type 2 diabetes and you eat a lot of sugary foods, it will make it difficult to control your blood sugar levels and your weight. This doesn’t mean that you have to exclude all sweet treats from your diet, but keep them to every now and then rather than every day. Myth 6: People with d...
The diet for people with diabetes is the same as it is for everyone – a healthy, balanced diet. This includes plenty of fruit and vegetables as well as pulses, fish, eggs and lean meat and low-fat dairy. Keep foods like cakes, biscuits and sweets to just small amounts and aim to stick to sugar f...
It’s still possible to drink alcohol if you have diabetes, but it’s important to stay within the recommendations of no more than 14 units a week. If you do drink this much, make sure that you have some alcohol-free days in the week too. If you are trying to lose weight then remember that alco...
Nutritious foods like fruit, vegetables and milk and dairy foods will come with natural sugars so there are benefits to including those in your diet. The sugary foods worth avoiding are the ones that come with few nutrients, other than calories. These are foods like sweets and sugary drinks as wel...