I have been Tyupe 2 diabetic for the past 14 years and last week had to have a stent put in for blockage. I have down the dibetic recipes but now trying to compare the heart healthy/diabetic foods it is sure going to be hard. I would like any recipe that includes both the exchanges for diabetic and heart healthy.
Heart Healthy/Diabetic Recipes
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Do you have access
to a Registered Dietician? Here, every time I've been in the hospital, a Registered Dietician has come by. An annual session with an RD is covered under my insurance. My current one, Patti, is very helpful and understanding.
Anyway, most truly modern (2005 and newer) cookbooks for diabetes are also heart friendly. I like the ones put out jointly by the American Diabetes Association and the American Dietetics Association.
Other cookbook authors to look for are: Betty Wedman and MaryJane Donkersloot.
Furthermore, both Diabetes Forecast (Am Diabetes Assoc) and Diabetes Self Management magazines have recipes in them every month (Forecast,) and every other month (Self Management).
Do you have a CDE? Certified Diabetes Educator? CDE's are specially trained nurses, pharmacists, doctors......My current CDE is a great guy named Edd. Very informative, very encouraging. If my smallish town of 30,000 can have a CDE........
Where is your doctor? S/he needs to STEP UP! My internist has been wonderful, and has diabetes himself, so it's like going to a specialist, even though he's "just" an internal medicine doctor. Your internist or General Practitioner should be aggressive in treating your condition, but gentle in handling you. My team includes a cardiologist, a psychiatrist, a gastroenterologist, and a podiatrist (heart, mind, gut, and feet). I have learned a lot from all of them.
Link is to American Diabetes Association
Lawrence/Maytagbear
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to a Registered Dietician? Here, every time I've been in the hospital, a Registered Dietician has come by. An annual session with an RD is covered under my insurance. My current one, Patti, is very helpful and understanding.
Anyway, most truly modern (2005 and newer) cookbooks for diabetes are also heart friendly. I like the ones put out jointly by the American Diabetes Association and the American Dietetics Association.
Other cookbook authors to look for are: Betty Wedman and MaryJane Donkersloot.
Furthermore, both Diabetes Forecast (Am Diabetes Assoc) and Diabetes Self Management magazines have recipes in them every month (Forecast,) and every other month (Self Management).
Do you have a CDE? Certified Diabetes Educator? CDE's are specially trained nurses, pharmacists, doctors......My current CDE is a great guy named Edd. Very informative, very encouraging. If my smallish town of 30,000 can have a CDE........
Where is your doctor? S/he needs to STEP UP! My internist has been wonderful, and has diabetes himself, so it's like going to a specialist, even though he's "just" an internal medicine doctor. Your internist or General Practitioner should be aggressive in treating your condition, but gentle in handling you. My team includes a cardiologist, a psychiatrist, a gastroenterologist, and a podiatrist (heart, mind, gut, and feet). I have learned a lot from all of them.
Link is to American Diabetes Association
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Thanks Lawrence. Yes have been to our local dietician at our local hospital and the brown bag lunch they have. Family Dr. is here and knows what I am doing and helps. Heart Dr. is 20 miles from here but great. I am going to start at local hospital Cardic Rehib in a couple of weeks when the cath site heals more. I have always walked and swim either at our home in the summer or at nearby university in the winter. My bigest problem now is that since I got ill in April with this heart stuff have been struggling with very high to moderate blood sugar. Family Dr. says body stress but heart Dr. wants it back to near normal. I take metoformin twice a day and glipizide once a day. Us to I normally had 90 to 120 not glucose test now in the 200 to 300 hundred range. Next step is insulin.
My feet are already better with the extra blood flow to them. Never had swelling in them but some less feeling in them. Neart Dr. said I had 99% clockage in main frontal arty and was amircile that I had not heart pain or attack. He also told my sife and I that diabetics just don't fell these blockages like other folks. Had the heart cath and stent in last Wednesday and was able to come back to work yesterday (Monday) I am a programmer/DBA so able to sit some and can if needed work from home.
My feet are already better with the extra blood flow to them. Never had swelling in them but some less feeling in them. Neart Dr. said I had 99% clockage in main frontal arty and was amircile that I had not heart pain or attack. He also told my sife and I that diabetics just don't fell these blockages like other folks. Had the heart cath and stent in last Wednesday and was able to come back to work yesterday (Monday) I am a programmer/DBA so able to sit some and can if needed work from home.
I've been on insulin
for over five years now. I take Lantus (long acting), and Novolog (fast acting), and it has helped a lot.
After I got used to it, insulin injections don't hurt as much as fingerstick glucose testing. I am using the Lantus Solo Star pen, and the Novolog pen, and BD Ultra-Fine III pen needles.
My eyes and kidneys are fine, I have a little neuropathy in my feet, but Lyrica takes care of that.
Lawrence/Maytagbear
for over five years now. I take Lantus (long acting), and Novolog (fast acting), and it has helped a lot.
After I got used to it, insulin injections don't hurt as much as fingerstick glucose testing. I am using the Lantus Solo Star pen, and the Novolog pen, and BD Ultra-Fine III pen needles.
My eyes and kidneys are fine, I have a little neuropathy in my feet, but Lyrica takes care of that.
Lawrence/Maytagbear
