Diabetic diets

Routine antioxidant vitamin supplementation, e.g. with vitamins C and/or E, of the diabetic diet should be considered. Vitamin C depletion is present in all diabetics irrespective of the presence of vascular disease. A recent study demonstrated no significant difference between the dietary intake of vitamin C (the main determinant of plasma ascorbate) in patients with diabetes and age-matched controls, confirming the view that ascorbate depletion is secondary to the diabetic process and su esting that diabetic patients require additional intakes of the vitamin to maintain optimal levels (Sinclair et /., 1994). Antioxidant supplementation may have additive beneficial effects on a wide variety of processes involved in diabetic vascular damage including blood pressure, immune function, inflammatory reactions. 

In addition to pure inulin and fructooligosaccharides, Jerusalem artichoke is processed in a number of different ways for the health food market. Jerusalem artichoke flour is used in a wide range of foods, such as pasta for diabetic diets, for example, while extracts are sold in pill form for their health-promoting properties. 

Diet above and beyond the diabetic diet, not adding any salt and reducing alcohol intake, will have beneficial effects on blood pressure. Other aspects of diet (including energy, calcium and phosphate) are important in renal failure and the assistance of a renal dietitian is normally required if the degree of renal impairment is severe (e.g. CKD stage 4-5). 

Several carbohydrate-based sweeteners exist on the market today. Although sucrose is the gold standard for sweeteners, other sweeteners gain commercial viability because they are less expensive (such as corn-based sweeteners), have fewer calories, or are better suited for diabetic diets. Unlike the synthetic sweeteners, most of the carbohydrate-based... 

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Secondary hyperlipidaemias results from liver and biliary disease, obesity, hypothyroidism, diabetes, diet, alcohol excess, renal disease (nephrotic syndrome) and drugs (including etretinate, HIV protease ir hibitors, thiazide diuretics, oral contraceptive steroids, glucorticosteroids, (3-adrenoceptor antagonists, ciclosporin). 

Crapo, P. A. (1985). Simple versus complex carbohydrate use in the diabetic diet. Awnu. R .. Nutr. 5, 95-114,... 

In 1883 Jaffe showed that D-mannitol could be fed to dogs and recovered unchanged in large quantities from the urine. In rabbits the compound was partially metabolized. Sollmann suggests the use of mannitol as a sweetening agent in the diabetic diet. In 1919 Field d... 

The English workers, Payne and coworkers,contrary to the findings of the continental investigators, reported that sorbitol was not directly metabolized, and they recommended it as an inert condiment in the diabetic diet. One of the first accounts of the metabolism of sorbitol in America was written by Silver and Reiner. These workers found that the ingestion of the hexahydric alcohol produced hj perglycemia in a diabetic patient. 

Extending these foregoing studies to the controversial problem of the value of sorbitol in the diabetic diet, Ellis and Krantz carried out typical tolerance tests with the compound. In normal human subjects, 50 g. of sorbitol increased the respiratory quotient above the normal basal level. Within an observation period of two hours, the effect was similar to that produced by an equal quantity of n-glucose. The blood sugar level was not significantly altered by the administration of sorbitol but was markedly elevated by n-glucose. In thirteen moderately severe diabetic... 

Although fructose has been proposed for use in the diabetic diet, it is not regarded as a suitable source of carbohydrate, although it does have value as a sweetening agent. The British Diabetic Association has recommended that intake of fructose be limited to 25 g daily. ... 

Anonymous. Has fructose a place in the diabetic diet Drug Ther Bull 1980 18(17) 67-68. 

Before the metabolic toxicity of fructose was appreciated, substitution of fructose for glucose in intravenous solutions, and of fructose for sucrose in enteral tube feeding or diabetic diets, was frequently recommended. 

A diabetic diet and the tapering of her steroid dose over a period of several weeks gradually returned Ms. Wheezer s blood glucose level into the normal range. 

Because I am taking my insulin daily I do not have to adhere to a diabetic diet. ... 

I have to eat my diabetic diet even if I am taking this medication. ... 

The results of studies where the cereal fiber content of the diabetic diet were raised have been variable. Their interpretation is also difficult because in many cases the carbohydrate intakes were also raised (2,29,30). It has been suggested that the higher carbohydrate intake may have contributed to the improved diabetic state, (31-34) however this... 

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