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) Diet and Diabetes: Recipes for Success (PDF-in English with recipes from India)

To order any of these materials in bulk, please e-mail literature@pcrm.org.

Patient Education Booklets

Vegetarian Starter Kit (in English) Vegetarian Starter Kit (in Spanish) View our other fact sheets and booklets

To order any of these materials in bulk, please e-mail literature@pcrm.org.

Professional Resources

Continuing Education
Physicians, registered dietitians, nurse practitioners, physician’s assistants, and registered nurses may earn continuing education credit online at www.NutritionCME.org. Programs are non-commercial and evidence-based. 

• Download recipes from our diabetes CME dinner programs
• Scientific Support for Vegan and Vegetarian Diets (PDF)
• Literature Search: Recent and classic articles on the effect of vegan and vegetarian diets on type 2 diabetes (PDF)
• Quick Reference Guide: Diet and Diabetes Nutrition Counseling coming soon 
• Reimbursement for Counseling and Education  coming soon
• Information on Nutrition and Other Chronic Diseases
• Web-Based Meal Planning Tool

Books

Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes, Rodale, Inc., New York, 2007 Breaking the Food Seduction: The Hidden Reasons Behind Food Cravings and 7 Steps to End Them Naturally, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2003. Nutrition Guide for Clinicians, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Washington, D.C., 2007 More Books

Other Ways to Get Involved

Participate in the Doctor’s Forum, a conference call for physicians held on the first and third Monday of each month at 8 p.m. EST. Past speakers include Dean Ornish, M.D., AMA President Ronald Davis, M.D., and nutrition researcher David Jenkins, M.D., Ph.D, Dr. Sc. To sign up, send an e-mail to nutrition@pcrm.org.

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PCRM Diabetes Education Steering Committee Members

Brenda Davis, R.D.
Author of Defeating Diabetes, Book Publishing Co., Summertown TN, 2003.
Lead dietitian, Diabetes Wellness Research Study, Majuro Marshall IslandsPast Chair, Vegetarian Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group, American Dietetic Association
Kelowna, British Columbia  
Canada

Carolyn Leontos, M.S., R.D., C.D.E.
Nutrition Specialist,
University of Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada  

Sue McLaughlin, B.S., R.D., C.D.E.
The Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, Nebraska

Kerrie Saunders, M.S., L.L.P., Ph.D.
Mercy Hospital Health Center
Fort Gratiot, Michigan

Kathy Stroh, M.S., R.D., C.D.E.
Diabetes Prevention and Control Program
Division of Public Health
Bureau of Chronic Diseases
Dover, Delaware

Robyn Webb, M.S.
Cookbook author and nutritionist
Food Editor, Diabetes Forecast magazine
Alexandria, Virginia

Neal Barnard, M.D.
President
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Washington, District of Columbia

Susan Levin, M.S., R.D.
Dietitian
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Washington, District of Columbia

Caroline Trapp, M.S.N., A.P.R.N., B.C.-A.D.M., C.D.E. 
Director of Diabetes Education and Care
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Washington, District of Columbia
and
Diabetes Nurse Practitioner
Premier Internists, A Division of the Millennium Medical Group, PC
Southfield, Michigan

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