Managing Diabetes to Fit Your Life Plate Plans Healthy Living Through Environment, Policy and Improved Clinical Care (EPICC) Program Managing Diabetes to Fit Your Life
Introduction Introduce ourselves and that we are dietetic interns working with the State Health Department and EPICC See handout and draw their plate Introduce classmates and have a few participants share their plate
Diabetes Who knows someone with diabetes? What do you know about diabetes? How do you think someone with diabetes should eat? Can people with diabetes eat foods they love? Why or why not?
Sugar, Diabetes, and Food You eat food, it goes to your stomach and is broken down into glucose (sugar) and is taken up by your cells and used as energy. When it’s not allowed in the cells, It builds up in your blood, causing high blood sugar levels. When this happens your body has nothing to use as energy.
Sugar, Diabetes, and Food
What foods have starch? Activity Which foods have starch and which do not? Did any one of these surprise you? Someone tell me in your own words why we needs to know which foods have starch and which do not.
Control carbs and normalize them
Plate Method Visual Fruit Dairy Starch Non-Starchy Vegetables Protein
Brainstorm Ideas Interventions: Planning (have them plan one meal on extra handout and discuss ideas) Portion sizes (portioning out activity) Increasing vegetables Decreasing soda (sugar comparisons) Exercising
Fewer Sugar Drinks
Barriers to Making Dietary Changes Game and discussion
Food Is Love *accountability