1. 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

2. 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

3. 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?

4. 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.

5. Sugar, Diabetes, and Food

6. 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.

7. Control carbs and normalize them

8. Plate Method Visual
Fruit
Dairy
Starch
Non-Starchy Vegetables
Protein

9. 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

10. Fewer Sugar Drinks

11. Barriers to Making Dietary Changes
Game and discussion

12. Food Is Love
*accountability