Diabetes is a disease in which the body does not produce orproperly use insulin.

Insulin is a hormone that changes sugar, starches and other food into energy needed fordaily life.

What is diabetes?

The management of diabetes has three parts:

♦Healthy Eating ♦Physical Activity

♦Medication (if needed)

How is diabetes managed?

Tiredness or fatigue Changes in vision Numbness or tingling in the extremitiesSlow-healing wounds or sores

Abnormally high frequency of infection

Symptoms, continued

Use fresh or frozen fruit and vegetables when eating or in between meals. Use low fat cheese instead of regular cheese. Drink fruit juice of powder juice.

Use low fat milk .

For healthy

Vegetables are healthy for everyone, including people with diabetes. Eatraw and cooked vegetables everyday. Vegetables give you vitamins,

minerals, and fiber with very few calories. Look for vegetables that arebright in color. A few examples are: carrots, peppers, eggplant, broccoli,tomatoes, and spinach.

Vegetables

You should have 3 to 5 servings every day.

FruitsFruit is healthy for everyone, including people with diabetes. Fruit gives youenergy, vitamins and minerals and fiber.

How many servings of fruit do I need? 2 to 4 servings

Starches are breads, grains, cereal, pasta, beans or starchy vegetables.

Eat some starches/carbohydrates at each meal. People might tell you notto eat many starches/carbohydrates, but that is no longer correct advice. Eating starches/carbohydrates is healthyfor everyone, including people with diabetes.

How many starches/carbohydrates do I need each day? 6–11 servings each day

What are starches or carbohydrates?

Physical Activity

To control diabetes the recommendation is to increase physical activity, preferably every day for 20 minutes.

Physical Activity

Anoud AL-Thagafi