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General Hospital for Children California Pacific Medical Center Pediatric Endocrinology Boston, MA San Francisco, CA www.DiabetesHealth.com / DIABETES HEALTH 3 ® INVESTIGATE. INFORM. INSPIRE. In This Issue 10 21 6 FEATURES 14 12 Super Foods That Support 21 Coconut Yogurt with Fruit Your Immune System 22 Coconut Latte with Cardamom 6 A Capsule History of Diabetes • Our national focus on COVID-19 Diets has made many of us revisit the best diets for people with 24 Special Black Tea and Lemon •While almost everyone these diabetes. People with diabetes days knows that diet is a generally see a rise in their blood 25 Gorgonzola and Toasted Pecan crucial element in the effective sugars when they are sick. Salad management of diabetes, it may be a bit of a surprise to learn that 16 Other Foods That Contain 26 Tomato Mozzarella with Basil people have known about the Essential Vitamins and Minerals importance of diet in treating • T he provider of that biochemical 27 Berry Power Shake diabetes for 3,500 years. balance is insulin, and not having enough insulin in your body to 28 Roasted Lamb 10 Today's Popular Diets maintain targeted blood sugars •E verybody knows how crucial causes inflammation. 29 Roasted Cauliflower diet is to managing diabetes. But 17 Recommended Vitamins and in this era of competing dietary Minerals for People With 30 Fish Tacos strategies, the field is crowded Diabetes with contenders. We were able 31 Homemade Guacuamole to find 36 diets that are now • E ach of the vitamins and minerals on the market, ranging from described in the article are 31 Homemade Salsa traditional low-fat diets to diets recommended as part of a healthy that call for high fat and protein diet because of the benefits each COLUMNS consumption, accompanied by one brings to building a robust low carbohydrate intake—as low immune system. M aking a Difference as 20 grams per day. 20 Recipes from The Sugar Happy 5 Letter From the Publisher MEET LANCE™ PULL OUT Kitchen •Flavorful Recipes for People •My recipes provide you with with Diabetes S ee the pull out inside for education a menu that is both tasty and on Health Mart® brand products healthy, with all of the vitamins and including money saving coupons! minerals you need. 4 www.DiabetesHealth.com / DIABETES HEALTH Making a Difference Flavorful Recipes for People with Diabetes people get a kick out of diets are currently available to both people S ome pointing out that we spend with diabetes and non-diabetics in "Today's Nadia Al-Samarrie was one-third of our lives sleeping. But there's a Popular Diets" on page 10. Believe it or not, measure that may be just as important: If you not only born into a family there are almost 40 different diets in the tote up the time, in our lifetimes we spend marketplace right now! It's hard for anybody with diabetes, but also the equivalent of 4.4 years eating. to choose from among such an extensive list, married into one. but one of the bedrock rules we all know to She was propelled at a Obviously if you spend that much time follow these days is cut down on the carbs! young age into “caretaker at something that is really a life-or-death Patrick also describes the history of diets mode,” and with her activity, it has to be very important. And aimed at treating diabetes in "A Capsule knowledge of the scarcity for people with diabetes it is even more History of Diabetes Diets" on page 6. A of resources, support, and important. surprise: Such diets go back 3,500 years, understanding for people to the time of the pharaohs and the rise of That's why we've dedicated this issue of with diabetes, co-founded ancient Asian Indian doctors. While ancient Diabetes Health to diets and recipes that help people lacked our technology, they certainly Diabetes Interview–now people with diabetes both enjoy what they're were just as smart as us and used those Diabetes Health magazine. eating while safeguarding or even building brains to figure out some highly complex Nadia’s leadership up their immune systems. matters. has spanned 30 years, establishing the magazine In "12 Super Foods That Support Your Immune Perhaps best of all this issue are 11 recipes as a preeminent consumer System" on page 14, I describe and list the that I've personally tested for carbohydrate and professional resource. importance of certain vitamins and minerals content, preparation, ease, and taste. in helping sustain a robust immune system. They start on page 20 "Recipes from The Under her reign- This has become especially important in the Sugar Happy Kitchen." My favorite one DiabetesHealth.Com was wake of COVID-19, which can compromise the (and I know this is just my taste at work) named " Best Diabetes Blog immune system in people with diabetes by is the fish tacos, which I prepare often for for 2019" by Healthline and spiking their blood sugar levels.