250 Essential Diabetes Recipes REVIEW

Did you know that Diabetes is a chronic disease that literally affects one out of ten people in North America…that’s roughly 35 million people…and that number is always increasing.  Eating healthy, especially when you have Diabetes, is key…but not always easy.  For people, like me, who was diagnosed with Diabetes later in life, it is very difficult to change the way you eat.  You do it because you have to, but it’s hard and you have set backs…like the McFlurry I ate last  night and then regretted 30 minutes later.  You don’t want to give up what you are used to eating. Having Diabetes recipes on hand is helpful.

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However, with amazing cookbooks like 250 Essential Diabetes Recipes by Sharon Zieler, you can have all that wonderful food you long for, but in a form that is healthy for your lifestyle.

Sharon Zeiler, B.Sc, M.B.A., R.D. is the Senior Manager, Nutrition Initiatives & Strategies at the Canadian Diabetes Association. She has a long standing interest in ensuring that consumers are served by well educated and experienced healthcare professionals who have opportunities to develop skill and expertise.

Sharon graduated from the University of Toronto, where she majored in nutrition sciences. She received her MBA from the Schulich School of Business, York University, with a double major in Organizational Behaviour and Social Marketing. This specialty is often helpful in the development of resources and the dissemination of nutrition guidelines and information.

Sharon joined the Canadian Diabetes Association in 1999. She works with and supports many of the Canadian Diabetes Association’s expert committees. These committees define guidelines for the management of diabetes, develop tools and resources to assist healthcare practitioners to implement them, and advise the organization on nutrition-related policies.

Sharon is a member of government health committees where she advises on and advocates for healthy eating and active living. Assisting health educators to help consumers make healthy food choices to prevent the onset of diabetes or other chronic diseases is an aspect of Sharon’s work which are a logical extension of her own interest in good nutrition.

What I really like about this cookbook is the fact that all of the nutritional information that is pertinent for me when it comes to figuring out what I can and cannot eat, is right there.  For example, the first thing I look at is the carbohydrate count.  I only eat 45 or less carbs per meal.  So if I look at a recipe and there is over 45 carbs per serving, I don’t eat it.

The other thing I really like about this cookbook is that a lot of the recipes have variations that you can take advantage of that makes more options for your family.  For instance, a recipe may call for lean ground beef.  One of the alternatives listed is to use extra lean ground beef and in doing so, you cut the fat by 4g’s!

If you suspect you may be Diabetic please see your doctor.  Diabetes can cause blindness, kidney failure, and it is shortening peoples lives by at least 5 to 15 years.