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Visual Aids for Diabetes Counselling

Visual Aids for Diabetes Counselling. Basic Dietary Guidelines. We need foods from these groups everyday. Drink 8-10 glasses of water per day. Eat dry beans, split peas, lentils and soya regularly. Have milk, maas or yoghurt everyday. Make starchy foods part of most meals.

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Visual Aids for Diabetes Counselling

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  1. Visual Aids for Diabetes Counselling

  2. Basic Dietary Guidelines We need foods from these groups everyday. Drink 8-10 glasses of water per day Eat dry beans, split peas, lentils and soya regularly. Have milk, maas or yoghurt everyday. Make starchy foods part of most meals. Fish, chicken, lean meat or eggs can be eaten daily. Use fats sparingly. Choose vegetable oils rather than hard fats. Eat plenty of vegetables and fruit everyday.

  3. Potato Bread Oats Butternut Rice Cake Samp Pasta Popcorn Peas Cereal Potato chips Sweet potato Starchy foods The following are starchy foods:

  4. Eggs Yoghurt Maas Chicken Beans Fish Milk Meat Peanut butter Legumes Organ meat Soya Protein foods The following are protein foods:

  5. Vegetables and Fruit The following are vegetables and fruit:

  6. Foods with Fat The following foods contain good fats: The following foods contain bad fats: 

  7. Foods with Hidden Fat, Sugar and Salt

  8. How much is one portion? We often eat foods without knowing how much we are eating. These are not all one portion!

  9. What is one portion of starch?

  10. What is one portion of protein?

  11. What is one portion of Vegetables?

  12. What is one portion of Fruit?  125 ml

  13. How many portions of each food can you have? The numbers of portions of each food you can have depends on your insulin or medication. Your dietician will tell how many portions you should have of each food type.

  14. Timing of Meals: Insulin Patients on insulin can eat small meals every three hours: Breakfast  1 cup porridge, ½ cup milk, 1 fruit Snack 1 slice brown bread + peanut butter, tea Lunch  1 cup rice, 1 cup curry, 2 cups salad Snack  1 small yoghurt, 1 fruit Supper  1 cup rice, 1 ½ cups curry, 1 cup vegetables Bedtime snack 1 slice brown bread + peanut butter

  15. Timing of Meals: Tablets Breakfast  2 cups porridge, ½ cup milk, 1 fruit Lunch  2 cups phutu, 1 cup curry, 2 cups salad, 1 fruit Supper  2 cups rice, 1 ½ cups curry, 1 cup vegetables, 1 small yoghurt

  16. Reading Food labels and Ingredients • Reading food labels is one of the ways to learn what is in the foods that you buy: • The first few ingredients are the ingredients that the food contains the most. •  • Look at the size of one portion- if you eat more than one portion, you are eating more energy, fat, sugar etc. This product is mostly made from: sugar, then whole-grain flour, then wheat flour, oats and corn. The colored crunchlets contain more sugar. Then next ingredient is vegetable oil (fat).

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