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Food for Life: Healthy Eating and Cooking to Beat Diabetes in Indian Country
Welcome! This is the home of curriculum materials for a unique nutrition education program designed to address the epidemic of type 2 diabetes among Native Americans. Research conducted by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) and many other research teams has demonstrated the power of plant-base |
Diet and Diabetes: Recipes for Success
Diet and Diabetes: Recipes for Success Diabetes Basics Glucose, a simple sugar, is the body’s main fuel. It is present in the bloodstream, but in people with diabetes it cannot get into the cells where it is needed. In type 1 diabetes (which was once referred to as childhood-onset diabetes), the pro |
Nutrición y Diabetes
Nutrición y Diabetes Fundamentos de la diabetes En la diabetes, las células del cuerpo no pueden obtener el azúcar que necesitan. La glucosa, un azúcar simple, es el principal combustible del cuerpo. La glucosa se encuentra en |
Section Four: Diabetes
Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetes Nutritional Factors in Neuropathy |
Diabetes Success Stories
Over the past few years, we have heard from hundreds of people who have had tremendous success using a low-fat vegan diet to treat type 2 diabetes. Here are just a few of their stories. John Beale When doctors diagnosed him with type 2 |
Help Your Patients: Diabetes Resources for Health Care Professionals
Patient Education Printable Patient Education Fact Sheets Diet and Diabetes: Recipes for Success (PDF-in English) Diet and Diabetes: Recipes for Success (PDF-in Spanish) |
Celebrity Chefs and New Classes Teach Plant-Based Diabetes Prevention
The new season of the TV show Top Chef just started and it’s packed with celebrity chefs. In the show’s challenges, chefs typically create high-fat, cholesterol-laden meals—like the ones that have contributed to America’s diabetes epidemic. But last month, PCRM presented its own challenge to |
PCRM Program to Treat and Prevent Diabetes Now on DVD
Jason Wyrick was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in his 20s and faced taking insulin for the rest of his life—until he turned to the diabetes treatment approach recommended PCRM president Neal Barnard, M.D. Since then, Jason has lost 120 pounds, and he now has no symptoms of diabetes. His success story is amon |
Food for Life Resources for Diabetes
NEW PCRM’s AADE Foundation Plant-Based Diet Scholarship This scholarship is designed to recognize an educator who demonstrates knowledge of plant-based (vegan) nutrition, and its beneficial role in treating type 2 diabetes, and who has shared this information with people with diabetes under his/her care, r |
Meet Caroline Trapp, M.S.N., A.P.R.N., B.C.-ADM, C.D.E.
Caroline Trapp recently joined PCRM as the director of diabetes education and care. Board-certified in adult primary care, advanced diabetes management, and diabetes education, she has worked with people with diabetes for more than 20 years. Her role at PCRM is to oversee new diabetes prevention and reversal init |
Meet Caroline Trapp: PCRM’s New Diabetes Care Expert
Caroline Trapp, M.S.N., A.P.R.N., B.C.-ADM, C.D.E., recently joined PCRM as the director of diabetes education and care. Board-certified in adult primary care, advanced diabetes management, and diabetes education, she has worked with people with diabetes for more than 20 years. Her role at PCRM is to oversee ne |
Diabetes Fact Sheets and Recipes
Diet and Diabetes - Recipes for Success (color PDF) (black-and-white PDF) A brief summary of research and an overview of the diet. Several recipes and meal ideas are included. Diabetes y La Dieta: Recetas para el Éxito (PDF) The Spanish-language version of Diet and Diabetes. Dr. Barnard's published resear |
The Vegan Diet How-To Guide for Diabetes
Introduction Diet changes are the cornerstone to treating type 2 diabetes. Current diet recommendations require restricting portion sizes, measuring and weighing foods, and limiting the total amount of carbohydrate. However, evidence suggests that a different die |
PCRM Sues FDA Over Diabetes Drugs' Fatal Side Effects
“Avandia can cause or worsen heart failure.” That’s what the drug’s black box warning states. But in a lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration, PCRM is asking the agency to require wording on the label that also alerts patients to safe dietary alternatives to Avandia and other diab |
Nutrition and Cooking Classes for Diabetes
Food for Life: Diabetes Initiative The Power of Food for Diabetes Prevention and Treatment Diabetes is a major public health problem of epidemic proportions. Eleven percent of the U.S. adult population has diabetes (up from 8 percent in 2007), and nearly one-third of those 65 and older have the disease. Uncontrolle |
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