Planning A Healthy Diet for Your Diabetic Child

Posted on December 28, 2007 in Latest News

If you have a diabetic child, then your first step to prevent your child from the complications of diabetes is planning a health and proper diabetic diet for your child. Planning a diabetic diet for your child will play a significant role in maintaining his/her diabetes and ideal body weight.

Here are some top healthy diet tips to help control your child’s diabetes:

• Avoid foods that greatly affect your child’s blood glucose level.
• Tell your child to drink more water and do remember to inform your child to drink water when he/she feels thirsty.
• It is always wise to select whole grain foods with higher fiber contents for your diabetic child.
• Always go for sugar free food. Limit your child’s intake of sweets, pastries, soft drinks, jam, candy and honey.
• Limit your child’s intake of cholesterol and saturated fats.
• Check out vegetables helpful for your diabetic child. Encourage your child to eat raw vegetables. As far as vegetables are considered, include radish, carrot, kale, tomato, cabbage and cucumber in your child’s diet.
• Give balanced and healthy meals to your child.
• Give healthy snacks between meals.

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