Rolle Medical Partnership
Rolle Medical Partnership
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|ADVICE FOR CONTROLLING YOUR |
|BLOOD SUGAR |
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A Guide to Choosing Food for a Healthy Lifestyle
to Control Your Blood Sugar
The advice on food to choose is given by dividing foods into 3 groups:
|FOODS FOR EVERYDAY USE |FOODS TO EAT IN MODERATION |FOODS TO AVOID |
|These foods are low in sugar, low in fat or |It is not a good idea to eat these foods |These foods have either a high sugar or high |
|high in fibre and should form the basis of |everyday, but eating a few once or twice a |fat content, or are low in fibre. They |
|your diet. |week will not prevent you from having a |should be eaten very occasionally. |
| |healthy diet. | |
|BREAD, CEREALS, |FOODS FOR EVERYDAY USE |FOODS TO EAT IN MODERATION |FOODS TO AVOID |
|POTATOES | | | |
| |Wholemeal and granary bread. Wholemeal |White breads. Naan bread. Refined |Croissants. Sugar or honey-coated |
| |flour. Wholemeal breakfast cereals, eg |breakfast cereals, eg Cornflakes, Rice |breakfast cereals. Chocolate and cream|
| |Branflakes, Weetabix, Shredded Wheat, |Krispies. White flour. Digestive |filled biscuits. |
| |Porridge. Pasta and rice. Chapattis. |biscuits, oatcakes, cream crackers. | |
| |Potatoes – try jacket, boiled or mashed.|Thick cut chips or roast potatoes cooked| |
| |Plain biscuits, eg Crispbread, Rich Tea,|in rapeseed, olive or sunflower oil, | |
| |Wholewheat crackers, Morning Coffee & |reduced fat oven chips. Crisps. | |
| |Marie. |[pic] | |
|FRUIT & |All fresh and frozen vegetables, salad. |Coleslaw with low fat dressings. Dried |Potatoes cooked in lard or dripping. |
|VEGETABLES |Try baked beans and pulses, eg lentils, |fruit, a small glass of unsweetened |Coleslaw, potato salad in mayonnaise. |
| |kidney beans, etc. Try fresh or stewed |fruit juice eg ¼ pt per day. |Fruit tinned in syrup. |
| |fruit, fruit tinned in natural juice. |[pic] | |
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| |TRY AND HAVE 5 HELPINGS OF FRUIT & VEGETABLES DAILY. |
| |FOODS FOR EVERYDAY USE |FOODS TO EAT IN MODERATION |FOODS TO AVOID |
|FISH | | | |
| |ALL TYPES OF FISH eg salmon, tuna, |Baked fish in breadcrumbs, shellfish, |Fish in batter. Taramasalata. |
| |mackerel, sardines. If tinned, choose |fish paste and pâté. | |
| |variety in brine or tomato sauce. You |[pic] |[pic] |
| |can use grilled fish fingers, fish in | | |
| |skimmed milk sauce. | | |
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| |TRY AND INCLUDE OILY FISH TWICE A WEEK. |
|FATS & OILS | | | |
| |Soft margarines high in polyunsaturates |Low fat salad cream. Salad dressing |Butter, hard margarines, eg Stork, |
| |and low in saturates eg Flora, Vitalite |made from a polyunsaturated oil or olive|Krona. Suet, dripping, lard, vegetable |
| |and Olivio. |oil. Fat-free dressing. Oils including|white cooking fat. Mayonnaise, salad |
| | |olive, sunflower, safflower, corn, |cream. Palm oil. |
| |Check supermarket brands with your |blended vegetable and soya oil. | |
| |dietician. | | |
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| |Low fat spreads: St Ivel Gold, Olivite, | | |
| |Flora Light. | | |
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| |It is important to reduce the total amount of fat in your diet, so use margarines/spreads/oils sparingly. |
|MEAT | | | |
| |Lean pork, ham, gammon, lamb, beef, lean|Liver, kidney, tongue, bacon, corned |Visible fat on meat, sausages, belly |
| |mince, chicken and turkey (skin |beef, luncheon meat, chopped ham and |pork, streaky bacon, meat pies, pasties,|
| |removed), eg 4oz per cooked meal, 2oz |pork, low fat sausages and burgers. |sausage rolls, black pudding, salami, |
| |per snack meal. |[pic] |haslet, pâté and potted meat. |
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|DAIRY PRODUCTS | | | |
| |Eggs, boiled or poached. Skimmed and |Scrambled eggs. Evaporated milk. |Fried eggs. Hard cheeses, eg Cheddar, |
| |semi-skimmed milks. Very low fat soft |Medium fat cheeses, eg Edam, Gouda, |Stilton, cream cheese. Full cream milk,|
| |cheese, cottage and curd cheese. |Camembert, Brie. Processed cheese or |condensed milk. Clotted cream (any |
| |Fromage frais low in fat and sugar. Low|reduced fat cheeses, eg Shape, Tendale. |type). Yoghurt made with full cream |
| |fat and low sugar ‘diet’ yoghurts. |Plain ice-cream. Low fat Crème frais, |milk. Milk substitutes, eg Coffeemate |
| |[pic] |single and double cream. |and coffee complement. Fancy ice-cream |
| | |[pic] |made with cream. |
| |FOODS FOR EVERYDAY USE |FOODS TO EAT IN MODERATION |FOODS TO AVOID |
|NUTS | | | |
| | |All nuts, including peanut butter. |Coconut and coconut cream. |
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|HOMEMADE DISHES | | | |
| |Low sugar custard. Low sugar whips and |Home-made cakes and puddings made with |Tinned whole milk puddings. Ordinary |
| |mousses and milk puddings made with |wholemeal flour, skimmed or semi-skimmed|jelly, cakes, puddings, pastries and |
| |water, skimmed or semi-skimmed milk and |milk, reduced sugar and polyunsaturated |biscuits. |
| |sweetened with artificial sweetener (eg |margarine. Yorkshire pudding. | |
| |5oz portions). Low sugar jelly. Tinned|Dumplings. | |
| |low fat and low sugar milk puddings, eg | | |
| |Heinz Weight Watchers and Ambrosia Lite.| | |
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|SWEETS AND | | | |
|PRESERVES |Artificial sweeteners, eg Sweetex, |Ordinary jam and marmalade spread thinly|Sugar. Chocolate and chocolate spreads.|
| |Hermesetas, Natrene, Nutrasweet, |on bread, eg 1 tsp per day. |Boiled sweets, peppermints, toffee, |
| |Canderel, Hermesetas Gold and |[pic] |fudge, butterscotch, etc. Treacle and |
| |supermarket sweeteners. Low sugar and | |syrup. Honey, lemon curd. Mincemeat. |
| |high fruit content jams, eg 2 tsp per | |Marzipan. Sorbitol based sweeteners. |
| |day. | | |
|MISCELLANEOUS | | | |
| |Herbs and spices. Unsweetened pickles, |Salt. Use a minimum quantity in |Sweet and sour sauces. |
| |eg beetroot, pickled onions, pickled |cooking, do not add to food at the | |
| |cabbage and gherkins. Gravy granules. |table. Brown and tomato sauce, soya | |
| |[pic] |sauce. Pickles and chutney with a high | |
| | |sugar content. | |
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| |FOODS FOR EVERYDAY USE |FOODS TO EAT IN MODERATION |FOODS TO AVOID |
|DRINKS | | | |
| |Tea, coffee, soda and mineral waters. |Packet soups. Oxo, Bovril, Marmite. |Cream soups. Ordinary squash and fizzy |
| |No added sugar and low calorie squashes |Alcoholic drinks. |drinks. Liqueurs. Low fat bedtime |
| |and fizzy drinks. Low calorie chocolate| |drinks. |
| |drinks, eg Highlights, Options and cocoa|[pic] | |
| |powder. | | |
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|ALCOHOL | |
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| |Drink alcohol in moderation only. |
| |Keep to sensible drinking limits |
| |2 units per day for women, |
| |3 units per day for men. |
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| |Remember: Never drink on an empty stomach as alcohol can make hypoglycaemia (low blood glucose levels) more likely to |
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| |Use ‘diet/low calorie’ mixers. |
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Before you come to see the Diabetic Nurse, keep a food diary for 2 days.
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1 unit is equal to:
½ pint ordinary strength beer/lager.
1 glass wine.
1 measure spirits.
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