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Managing Diabetes With the Diabetes Food Pyramid
The Diabetes Food Pyramid is divided into 6 groups. These groups or sections on the pyramid vary in size. The largest group - grains, beans, and starch, is at the base. Those foods closer to the base should be eaten more than those at the top of the pyramid. You should consume more foods at the base of the pyramid than any other. The next level from the base are the fruits and vegetables. The third level from the bottom include dairy products, meats, meat substitutes and other proteins. The top of the pyramid includes fats, oils and sweets.The Diabetes Pyramid provides a wide variety of serving options. If you consume the minimum number of servings that are suggested you should consume daily, you would eat about 600 calories. If you follow the maximum number of servings suggested from the chart, it would be about 2,800 calories. Healthy fairly active women usually consume at the lower end of the range and healthy men consume towards the upper end.
The exact number of servings you should consume will rely on a variety of factors. These factors will include your diabetes goals, calorie and nutritional requirements, your activity levels, and the foods you enjoy.
The makeup of the Diabetes Food Pyramid is a little different than the USDA Food Guide Pyramid. The Diabetes Pyramid classifies foods based on carbohydrate and protein content rather than their classification as a food. To have an equal carbohydrate number in each serving, the portion sizes will be different than in the USDA pyramid. As one illustration: you will discover high carbohydrate potatoes and other starchy vegetables in the beans, grains, and other starchy vegetables group. Cheese is no longer found in the milk group but now in the meat group. A serving of rice nor pasta is a ½ cup in the USDA pyramid and 1/3 cup in the Diabetes Food Pyramid. Fruit juice is three fourths of a cup in the USDA pyramid and one third of a cup in the Diabetes Food Pyramid. The distinction is to make the amount of carbohydrates in each group the same as the suggested servings listed. Click here to observe a description of each group and the suggested amount of servings in each group, according to the Diabetes Food Pyramid.
Click below for some of our links about diabetes related problems and treatment options.
