Insulin Tutorial 3-2

Here are a few thoughts about diet:

1. The diet which you work out immediately after diagnosis may have to be changed from time to time. You may need fewer or more calories. Perhaps you may have to change your insulin preparation. This will oblige you to redistribute the carbohydrates between the different meals.

2. At first it is always difficult to come to terms with a diet. But before long you will get used to it.

3. You can construct your diet with foods which you can buy in any food store or supermarket. It is just a matter of choosing the right foods and distributing them correctly throughout the day.

4. When you are working out your meals, plan to include the foods which you like. After all, why should you go without them?

5. The foods which you choose for your meals should be the same as those which other members of your family eat.

6. Lastly, try to remember these principles:

During conventional therapy you need to divide your carbohydrate intake into 6 or 7 meals and adapt it to the existing effect of the long-acting insulin.

During intensive conventional therapy you need to adjust the dose of soluble insulin to suit the carbohydrate intake at each meal.