Archive for November, 2009
Mediterranean Diet Beats Low-Fat Diet for Diabetes Management
GREAT NEWS, ESPECIALLY FOR TYPE 2 DIABETICS. Eating the Mediterranean Diet way – which includes eating balanced, delicious meals and avoiding processed foods – reaps great rewards and may result in avoidance of medication.
Diabetic Recipe – Peanut Butter Balls
This recipe is especially suited for children For a more sophisticated pallete, substitute natural almond butter for peanut butter.
PEANUT BUTTER BALLS
What Metabolic Abnormality Underlies Diabetes Symptoms?
This is the metabolic abnormality that underlies the characteristic symptoms of diabetes mellitus:
- A.- A failure of the kidney tubules to reabsorb glucose from the urine
- B.- A failure of the villi of the intestine to absorb glucose from food
- C.- The body can't switch from glucose metabolism to fat metabolism between meals
- D.-The body's cells can't retain glucose absorbed from the blood
- E.- The body's cells can't absorb enough glucose from the blood
