Focus on Your Food

Someone forward you this email? No sweat! Sign up here to get your own If you're having trouble viewing this email, click here. Follow Us     Focus on Your Food March is National Nutrition Month - the perfect time to get your healthy eating plan jump started. Learn how to identify carbohydrates, increase your fiber intake and reap the benefits of some fantastic food sources. Healthy eating can and should be enjoyable!  Barbie Cervoni, RD, CDE Type 2 Diabetes Expert Carbohydrate Counting-Should You Do It? Carbohydrates are a very important nutrient to monitor when you have diabetes because these are the types of foods that increase blood sugars the most. For those persons with diabetes, it is recommended that you eat a consistent, modified carbohydrate diet...read more  READ NOW » Share   A Fiber Rich Diet Can Help you Lose Weight and Improve Your Diabetes Research has found that in those persons with Type 2 diabetes, high intakes of fiber from whole foods - about ~30-50g/daily - may produce lower serum glucose levels compared to a low-fiber diet...read more  READ NOW » Share   Try a New Vinegar The juice from apples are used to make apple cider vinegar. A study published in the Journal of Functional Foods found that healthy individuals at risk for Type 2 diabetes...read more  READ NOW » Share   The Food Source You Need to Load Up On There is no denying that vegetables are healthy for us. Studies have shown that eating a diet rich in vegetables as part of an overall healthy diet can help reduce cardiovascular disease risk, cancer, Type 2 diabetes and obesity. A vegetable rich diet can also...read more  READ NOW » Share   MORE FROM ABOUT.COM • Pistachios and Type 2 diabetes • This Fruit is a Nutrition Powerhouse • Complex, Simple, Refined Carbohydrates - What Does it All Mean? • Sugary Drinks that Damage Your Diet and Your Diabetes • If I Have Type 2 Diabetes Can I Eat Fruit? • Tomatoes and Diabetes Advertisement About Health | Follow Us:     You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Type 2 Diabetes newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. If you would like to unsubscribe from all newsletters sent from About.com, please send an email to optout@about.com with "Unsubscribe" as the subject line. 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10036 © 2014 About.com - All rights reserved - Privacy Policy