Products for Diabetes

You have gotten some great advice, and I just want to add that artificial sweeteners are terrible for you. For yogurt, you can buy plain yogurt in the quart tub (not vanilla, just plain) and add fresh or frozen fruit to it. Also, then adding a little bit of stevia to it will sweeten it up a tad if you need it a little sweeter.

Also, there is a product called slimsweet made from low glycemic fruit sugars, as well as xylitol and erithritol, which are naturally occuring sugars that are safe for diabetics.

Good luck!

My dad was also a diabetic. I have found several products in Vitamin Cottage as well as Whole Foods. I have more luck with Vitamin Cottage. They carry more products containing Stevia, which is a natural sweetener, not a chemical one. You can purchase stevia in liquid form or in packets. I keep them in my purse. I drink a lot of tea and use the liquid stevia, they have several flavors, but I use lemon and peppermint. Their website is www.stevia.com. But Whole Foods has a lot of products sweetened with fruits and sorbets that are just fruit. Hope this helps.

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K.

Hi. Please keep in mind that w/ diabetes it's the overall carb intake that you watch for. He doesn't have to eat the yucky sugar free stuff. My mother-in-law is a diabetes educator & my mom is a diabetic. Plus I worked in dietetics in a hospital so I've learned a lot. He can have a small piece of regular cake as long as it's not right after a big meal. Juice is not that great to drink, you're better off eating fruit. If he does have juice, he can have 4 ounces, again not w/ a large meal. Splenda is a good sweetner to use if he needs to sweeten cereal, fruit, etc. You can also bake w/ it but like I said above he can have a small portion of the real thing. His insurance should cover him seeing a registered dietician. He should do this & perhaps you should go w/ him so you can know more about carb control. It's very interesting & it's actually a good diet for everyone!
T.

Hi Z.,
There are several technologies that all people with diabetes need to know about as well as several nutritional products that can help them as well. It is especially important with people who have the neuropathy already.

I can forward you some information as well as website links to learn more. I had an 80 year old woman with Type I diabetes get some feeling back in her feet for the first time in years, plus she feels more stable on her feet and is not getting the leg pain at night.

Please email me with your email address.
Take care,
S.

The first thing I would caution you about when considering "sugar free" products is that if it has sugar alcohol instead, it is even worse for a diabetic. There is also sorbitol that is used for sweetening. I need to do more research on that ingredient before I could comment with any degree of fact-based intelligence. My mother, maternal grandmother, and my mother's five brothers had diabetes. My mother died at the tender age of 46 so I made it a point to be self-educated about the disease. Another factor that affects a diabetic's well being almost as much as diet is their emotional stability. Stress causes the body to over compensate thereby causing physical reactions that are detrimental to anyone's health, never mind a diabetic. Hope this helps. S.

There are yogurts and candies made with Splenda. Russell Stover's sells a line of sugar free candies (made with Splenda) specifically for diabetics and hypoglycemics. If you look for products that contain artificial sweeteners, that should help.