choose your foods, food lists for diabetes

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Choose Your Foods, Food Listsfor Diabetes. Wheeler M. 2014.Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics/American Diabetes Association, 120South Riverside Plz, Ste 2000, Chi-cago, IL 60606-6995. Paperbackbook, 64 pp, $3.89, ISBN: 978-0-88091-387-4.

No more ‘‘exchanging’’—now you canChoose Your Foods! . greater variety offoods, carbohydrate counts for eachfood, portion weights in ounces, andmore. Lists are grouped into carbohy-drate, fat, and protein and now allow pa-tients to interchange foods from thestarch, milk, and fruit lists.—Academyof Nutrition and Dietetics

This resource is a comprehensiveresource for diabetes patients, care-givers, and diabetes and nutritioneducators. Information covers allfood groups and includes nutrientcontent for carbohydrates, dairy, pro-teins, fats, combination foods, andalcohol. Each food is organized basedon its carbohydrate content to allow

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easier menu planning for the con-sumer.

Information also indicates whichfood is a good source of fiber, has extraor added fat, or is high in sodium. Aglossary is included to explain medi-cal or diabetes-related terms. A foodindex makes it easy for consumers tolook up a certain food.

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There are tips included on how toeat more vegetables and choosegluten-free foods. Food categories arerepresented by different colors, whichmake it easy to see to which category afood belongs. The last page of thebooklet contains an eating plan fordiabetes patients or caregivers to com-plete to make menu planning easy.

This resource is an excellent choicefor educating diabetes patients andcaregivers. It also serves as a clear-cutguide for consumers so they can easilychoose what to eat. It would be a goodresource for educators to use whentalking with diabetic patients aboutmaking wise food choices.

Sue Sing Lim, MS, RD, LDN, 2830Clearview Place, Doraville, GA 30340

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Cite this article as Lim SS. ChooseYour Foods, Food Lists for Diabetes[New Resources for NutritionEducators]. J Nutr Educ Behav.2015;47:117.e7.

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