Posts Tagged ‘coeliac disease’

*+-Oats are an awesome topic for a d-blog as they bring together so many aspects of food in our lives with diabetes including the glycemic index of carbohydrates, the importance of whole grains in our diets, soluble and insoluble fibre, heart health and the chance to talk about more delicious recipes. Not to mention with…

*+-So often I refer to the Australian Dietary Guidelines, and today’s blog is no exception as I thought that Grains would be a great topic to explore as they’re so helpful for our diabetes management, weight management, avoidance of cardiovascular disease and to help us maximise nutritional requirements! I’ll first look at why grains are…

*+-As people with diabetes, it’s important that alongside managing the day-to-day needs of our diabetes we also pay attention to avoidance or awareness of issues that may creep up when we least expect it. Two such issues are celebrating their Australian national awareness week this week: Salt Awareness Week, through the Heart Foundation 10-16 March,…

*+-With recent evidence highlighting nutritional inadequacies in people with type 1 diabetes, particularly in adolescent years, and Dr Sue Shepherd’s PhD work also highlighting nutritional inadequacies and excesses in people diagnosed with coeliac disease, it seemed sensible to present the new Guidelines for Healthy Eating relating them to those of us with these chronic conditions.…