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Recipe/ Cookbook recommendations for recently diagnosed type 2.

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Nikki54321

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Type of diabetes
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Diet only
Hi, I have a close family member who has recently been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes following a triple heart bypass late last year. She's been asked to try and control her blood sugar levels with diet and they will recheck her blood in three months time. She is super keen to buy a recipe book with some suitable recipes in it as is struggling a bit with knowing the right things to eat. She also has to keep an eye on saturated fat levels due to her heart condition. Is anyone able to point me in the right direction? She bought a copy of Davina's sugar free cookbook but that's not really the right thimg for her circumstances.
Many thanks for any help you are able to provide.

Nikki X
 
Michael Moseley's 8 Week Blood Sugar Diet book and its accompanying recipe book has some good meals.
 
I have a few cookbooks for diabetics. I would suggest that you treat each recipe with caution.

You need to have an idea of how each ingredient affects your BG.

The 8 week sugar diet contains ingredients that I can't tolerate.

Everyone is different, you may be able to tolerate more carbs than me.

I would look to the internet first. You have been given good links.

Remember that keto is not necessarily Diabetes specific.
 
Nikki54321 said:
Hi, I have a close family member who has recently been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes following a triple heart bypass late last year. She's been asked to try and control her blood sugar levels with diet and they will recheck her blood in three months time. She is super keen to buy a recipe book with some suitable recipes in it as is struggling a bit with knowing the right things to eat. She also has to keep an eye on saturated fat levels due to her heart condition. Is anyone able to point me in the right direction? She bought a copy of Davina's sugar free cookbook but that's not really the right thimg for her circumstances.
Many thanks for any help you are able to provide.

Nikki X
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She needs her own blood glucose meter, then she can find out exactly which foods her body can cope with. Everyone has different tolerance levels to carbs - and it is carbs that cause raised blood sugar levels, not fats, and not protein to any great degree. I suggest you encourage her to buy one. If she tests before she eats and again 2 hours after first bite, the increase in levels will show her whether there were too many carbs in that meal. If it rises by more than 2mmol/l then there are too many carbs for her body to manage. This is especially useful if she keeps a food diary including portion sizes.
 
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