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Diabetes

What is type 2 diabetes?

Feelings About Diabetes

Food Diary

Choosing Food

Tips for Planning Meals

Diabetes Medications

Monitoring Your Diabetes

Tips on Making Changes

More Information on Type 2 Diabetes

Living with Diabetes

How Families Can Help

What's in Food?

Physical Activity

Balance of Food, Exercise and Medicine

Weight Loss

How to use monitoring information

Low Blood Sugar (Hypoglycemia)

High Blood Sugar (Hyperglycemia)

Sick Day Care

Personal Care

Long-Term Problems

Heart and Vascular Disease

Eye Damage

Kidney Damage

Nerve Damage

Coping With Stress

Partmer in Care

Your Exercise Plan

Travel

Meal Planning

Counting Carbohydrates

Exchange Meal Plan

Nutrition Label

Special Foods

Eating Away From Home

Alcohol and Diabetes

Taking Charge of Your Meal Plan

Sexual Health for Men

Sexual Health for Women

Diabetes and Other Chronic Problems

Helpful Links

American Diabetes Association

Sources of Cholesterol and Fat

Cholesterol (limit these)

• Meat
• Cheese
• Egg yolk
• Whole milk
• Reduced fat (2%) milk
• Ice cream
• Butter
• Organ meats

Saturated Fat (limit these)

• Meat
• Cheese
• Egg yolk
• Whole milk
• Reduced fat (2%) milk
• Ice cream
• Butter
• Cream cheese
• Sour cream
• Palm oil
• Coconut oil
• Cocoa butter
• Hydrogenated vegetable oil
• Poultry with skin on

Unsaturated Fat

• Polyunsaturated

  • Safflower oil
  • Sunflower oil
  • Corn oil
  • Soybean oil
  • Sesame oil
  • Walnuts
  • Sesame seeds

• Monounsaturated (choose more often)

  • Olive oil
  • Canola oil
  • Peanut oil
  • Olives
  • Avocados
  • Almonds
  • Peanuts
  • Cashews
  • Pecans