Vegan Menu for
People with Diabetes

Meal Plans by Nancy Berkoff, RD, EdD

With Contributions by Cathy Conway, MS, RD, CDN; Erin M. Crandell;
and Reed Mangels, PhD, RD, FADA

Continues he
http://www.vrg.org/journal/vj2003iss...e2diabetes.htm

The Vegan Lifestyle - What to Eat?

http://www.veganoutreach.org/whyvegan/eating.html

"Using Your Bean"

http://www.vegparadise.com/bean1.html

Vegans and Diabetes

By Ginny Messina on 17. APR, 2009

Dietitian Jack Norris has published an excellent overview of research
on vegan diets and diabetes on www.veganhealth.org

Please note Jack’s comments about fat in his discussion of the
findings. I agree with him that adopting a very low fat diet over the
long term may not be advisable. I’m also not convinced that severe
fat restriction is helpful in managing diabetes; other research
suggests that replacing carbohydrate in the diet with monounsaturated
fats improves diabetic control. Higher fat diets may also improve
blood cholesterol (as long as the diet is still very low in saturated
fat).

Finally, weight loss is among the most powerful ways of improving
diabetes control, so it’s very hard to draw any conclusions about
impact of various dietary factors when the subjects lose weight. With
that said -- it makes sense that vegan diets would be a good choice
for people with diabetes since they tend to have a lower glycemic
index and are high in fiber. And vegans (on average -- but certainly not
always!) have a lower body mass index.

Here is a link to Jack’s blog which links to the article.

http://jacknorrisrd.com/?p=477

More at:
http://www.theveganrd.com/2009/04/ve...-diabetes.html

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