Diabetes Information

1. Make sure the diet is practical, consistent with work patterns and other everyday obligations and responsibilities. It should keep the individual functioning at his usual job and should not encourage invalidism, real or imagined.
2. Utilize readily available commonly preferred foods which other members of the family can be encouraged to enjoy, as distinct from unusual “dietetic” foods.
3. Adopt the diet plan as a pattern for life not only for the period of weight reduction but also for the long-term maintenance of normal weight and optimum health.
4. Keep the diet consistent with accepted health practices and compatible with any medical condition, such as liver, kidney and heart disorders, which may exist.
5. Follow the principle of flexibility. The diet should allow for a variety of foods so that a person can exchange one of which he is tired for another that furnishes the same food values, not merely the same calorie count. The reducing diet may include an item such as ice-cream, a commonly forbidden treat once or twice a month.
6. Provide an adequate period for adjustment to a revised living pattern by following the ‘go slow’ approach. The usual goal of half to one kg. per week is achieved by a daily intake of 500 to 1000 calories less than the estimated calorie intake needed to maintain the weight at which reducing was brinjal.
7. Adjust the diet and the calorie level in accordance with response. There in no substitute for trial and error. Eight hundred to 1000 calories represent the smallest practical energy vehicle that can provide the recommended daily allowances of essential minerals and vitamins through usual food sources.
8. Follow a good nutritional therapy directed to an obese person. It will favorably influence the eating pattern of other members of the family, primarily the mother who plans, purchases and prepare the meals for her spouse and children. The resulting general improvement in dietary habits should help to prevent all types of malnutrition including over-eating.
9. Adopt the positive, dynamic approach to weight control as an integral part of physical and total fitness.
10. Avoid crash diets. It is perfectly possible to slim quickly by just cutting down on all the so-called ‘fattening’ foods. The popularity of crash diets shows this. However, this weight loss is seldom permanent as no one can stick to a very restricted diet for long.

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