Diet / Food
Diet
Dietary advice is different depending on whether you have type 1 or type 2 diabetes. If you use insulin, then you may want to include some carbohydrates with meals to stop your blood glucose levels from going too low (or reduce your insulin dose to compensate for fewer carbs). You may benefit from counting carbs, so that you can better work out what your mealtime insulin doses should be, resulting in better glucose control. We have a free carb counting course that you might find useful.
There’s no set diet to follow if you have type 2 diabetes, it depends on what works for you and whether you are trying to lose weight. The general advice is to make healthier food choices more often, limit your intake and portion size of unhealthy foods, and try to avoid high refined sugar options. Read our section about a balanced diet
Fasting
Fasting for Ramadan when you have diabetes can be difficult to manage and it can put you at risk of hypoglycaemia (if you use insulin or gliclazide-like drugs) and dehydration.
If you choose to fast, then you should consult your diabetes care team before Ramadan to make sure you can do this in the safest way possible.
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This resource gives you plenty of useful information on how people with diabetes can participate safely in Ramadan.
This resource page explains how eating too much salt can have have an impact on your health and gives you strategies for cutting down the amount of salt in your diet..
Table of Glycaemic Index of foods
This resource explains what the glycaemic index is and how you can use it to maintain good blood glucose control.
A 10 day meal plan to follow during Ramadan.
This page discusses carbohydrate counting and why it is important for people with diabetes.
A practical guide to support you through your diabetes treatment plan.
Carbohydrate counting is a way of matching insulin requirements with the amount of carbohydrate that you eat or drink. This course will give you everything you need to know about counting carbs.
Diabetes and Enteral Feeding
