Diabetic Living Healthy Makeovers for Diabetes


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Diabetic Living Healthy Makeovers for Diabetes shows readers how making simple changes while cooking, eating, drinking, and buying groceries can lead to a healthier and happier life while living with diabetes.




Nicole Johnson's Diabetes Recipe Makeovers


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Nicole Johnson's Diabetes Recipe Makeovers offers healthy ways to transform delicious recipes to fit the dietary restrictions of diabetics. Ms. Johnson, Miss America 1999, has been living with the disease since 1993 and is a consultant and spokesperson for diabetes issues. By presenting simple and healthy substitutions for recipes, Ms. Johnson aims to improve the nutritional value of recipes as well as enhance the taste of each dish. This helpful—and healthful—collection includes a wide variety of recipes for breakfast items, main dishes, appetizers, and side dishes, as well as suggestions for versatile lunch or dinner plates, ethnic entrees, and desserts. Here are some of the 125 recipe makeovers you will find in the cookbook: • Nutmeg Pancakes with Lemon-Spiked Berries • Quick Chicken Sausage Jambalaya • Fresh Vegetable Lasagna • Southern Crabcakes with Remoulade Dipping Sauce • Open-Faced Egg Salad Sandwiches • Pink Peppermint Meringues Nutritional information, including the carbohydrate count and dietary exchanges, accompanies each recipe, and full-color photos make each dish even more enticing to try. Nicole Johnson's Diabetes Recipe Makeovers is spiral-bound and lies flat when open for easy use. It features a recipe index for at-a-glance convenience and a handy metric conversion chart.




Diabetic Living Diabetes What to Eat


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The essential cookbook and everyday guide on what to eat when you have diabetes Diabetic Living® magazine's trustworthy resource for anyone living with diabetes gives over 200 recipes and essential advice on what to eat in order to control blood sugar, feel better, and enjoy delicious meals every day. Enjoy carb-smart recipes like Beef Fajitas, Panko-Crusted Chicken, Speedy Pizza Bites, and Layered Brownies. In addition, you'll find the information every newly diagnosed individual needs to know to eat right—from how to shop for groceries and read food labels to counting carbs—all clearly explained in the magazine's friendly, approachable style. Features include: Chapters covering breakfast, salads, soups, sandwiches, main dishes and slow-cooker suppers, desserts, snacks, and drinks More than 200 beautiful full-color photographs A complete intro chapter on controlling blood sugar, counting carbs, navigating the grocery store, stocking your pantry, and more Full nutrition information and highlighted carb counts provided for every recipe




The Diabetes-Friendly Kitchen


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A delectable collection of delicious diabetes-friendly recipes from the experts at The Culinary Institute of America While most diabetes cookbooks are just collections of basic and boring recipes that merely get the job done, this new cookbook takes cooking for diabetes to new and delicious heights. With high-quality, wholesome ingredients and chef-inspired cooking techniques, these satisfying recipes meet the needs of diabetics without giving up flavor or fun. Though managing blood glucose levels requires giving up some ingredients, even the most discerning foodie will love these delicious recipes. Written by the CIA's top nutrition and diabetes expert, the book offers more than just recipes—it also features nutritional guidelines, healthy cooking techniques, and smart lifestyle choices. Features 125 recipes, including appetizers, sides, soups, salads, entrées, breads, and desserts Written by Jennifer Stack, Registered Dietitian and Certified Diabetes Educator, with recipes that live up to the standard of excellence for which the CIA is known Includes full nutritional information for all recipes, giving home cooks all the facts they need for meal planning and glucose control For too long, people with diabetes or pre-diabetes have had to give up some of their favorite foods and flavors for meals that meet their dietary needs. With this fantastic resource from the CIA, they'll never suffer dull meals again.




Diabetic Living Eat Smart, Lose Weight


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A practical and innovative guide to weight loss for people who want to take control of their health with simple changes to their diet and lifestyle—from the experts at Diabetic Living This newest addition to the Diabetic Living collection is ideal for people with diabetes who want to lose weight by learning how to eat healthfully and move more. The first part of the book features more than 100 healthful, calorie-conscious, and carb-counted recipes—from budget-friendly meals to perfectly portioned snacks—plus tips on how to conquer cravings and stay on track. The second part shows easy ways to add movement every day. Everyone will find ways to meet their weight loss goals and get fit, including how to get started with stretching exercises tailored to specific needs. All exercises include variations so that readers will not have to buy gym equipment to complete a workout.




Diabetes Quick-Fix with Magic Foods


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RELEASING JUST IN TIME FOR DIABETES AWARENESS MONTH Discover the 57 magic foods that can balance blood sugar to heal diabetes and pre-diabetes—including 125 delicious recipes. Out-of-control blood sugar is wrecking havoc on Americans’ health and caused more than 100 million adults to suffer from pre-diabetes and type-2 diabetes. And, doctors and researchers have discovered a shocking truth: If your blood sugar levels regularly soar and crash your body may sustain damage to your health. The good news is that by eating the right foods, you can help control blood sugar, keep hunger at bay, and help you feel satisfied longer. Diabetes Quick-Fix with Magic Foods is based on nutrition science, but designed for regular folks who just want to know what to eat. Inside you won’t find strict eating regimens or crazy rules about carbohydrates. What you will find are 57 magic foods that can help you bump your diet into sugar-friendly territory. Add just one of the magic foods to your plate, and you can see results right away, such as: Barley instead of white rice—thanks to barley’s significant stash of soluble fiber it will slash the effect of your blood sugar by almost 70%—try Mushroom-Barley Pilaf Add avocados to your diet—avocado contains fats that actually improve insulin sensitivity—try Turkey and Bean Chili with Avocado Salsa Berries, from ruby red strawberries to mid-night blue blueberries, are magic for your blood sugar—they are full of fiber, which keeps blood sugar low, and antioxidants, which benefit every cell in your body—try Cherry-Raspberry Crumble Pasta, although high in carbs, if cooked al dente and served with a topping containing vegetables, beans, chicken, garlic, and onions, you could get many magic foods on one plate and still keep your blood sugar in a medium range—try Macaroni and Cheese with Spinach Cinnamon and vinegar are “secret ingredients” that can significantly lower your blood sugar response to any meal—try cinnamon in Moroccan Spiced Carrots or vinegar in Flank Steak with Balsamic Sauce The more than 125 recipes, meal makeovers, meal plans, and cooking tips make it incredibly simple to get more of the 57 magic foods onto your plate. Your meals will taste delicious and, in addition, they will rein in insulin resistance, offload dangerous belly fat, reverse pre-diabetes, and help heal diabetes while feeling more fully charged and ready to embrace life every day.




Diabetic Living Eat to Beat Diabetes


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An achievable plan for beating type 2 diabetes and prediabetes, with more than 100 photos and complete nutrition information. So much more than a cookbook, Eat to Beat Diabetes is a lifestyle guide for losing weight, balancing blood sugar, and controlling diabetes for good. The book features the 10 research-based, evidence-proven healthy habits you should adopt to gain control over type 2 diabetes or prediabetes. Each chapter presents a new habit and gives simple strategies and expert tips to make it stick. One chapter, Eat More Fruits and Veggies, includes beautifully photographed features on blending fruit and veggie smoothies and creating easy, produce-packed lunches. A second, Get to Know Portions, offers smart tricks for stretching portions (stir nonstarchy cauliflower into mashed potatoes to double the serving). Lending encouragement throughout are profiles of people who have managed their diabetes and turned their lives around. With a lay-flat concealed wiro binding designed for everyday use, this photo-filled book is as much a friendly kitchen companion as an authoritative plan for changing your life.




Diabetic Living, the Ultimate Diabetes Cookbook


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A beautiful and comprehensive collection of diabetes-friendly recipes.




Diabetic Living Diabetes Meals by the Plate


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An easy, graphic guide to planning delicious, diabetes-friendly meals This innovative, graphic cookbook offers the easiest and most flavorful way to build complete meals that are diabetes-friendly and delicious. Sidestepping complex programs that turn meal-planning into work, the 90 complete meals in Diabetes Meals by the Plate follow the Plate Method—a simple approach to eating the right foods in proper amounts by filling your plate with one half nonstarchy vegetables, one quarter protein, and one quarter starch. A clever photo style showing every meal in its three components makes it easy to enjoy perfectly portioned plates of Balsamic Roasted Chicken and Vegetables with Garlic Toast, or Horseradish BBQ-Topped Mini Meat Loaves with Chopped Romaine Salad. All meals are 500 calories or less. Two “extras” chapters help you add in simple sides and desserts.




Diabetic Living Eat Smart, Lose Weight


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A practical and innovative guide for people living with diabetes who want to take control of their health by making simple, achievable adjustments to their diet and lifestyle--from the trusted experts at Diabetic Living.