Nutrition & Recipes

People with diabetes have the same nutritional needs as anyone else. Along with exercise and medications (insulin or oral diabetes pills), nutrition is important for good diabetes control. By eating well-balanced meals in the correct amounts, you can keep your blood glucose level as close to normal (non-diabetes level) as possible.

MyFoodAdvisor
Help! What should I eat? Find recipes, receive healthier alternatives, analyze what you currently eat, and compare foods for 22 different nutrients at MyFoodAdvisor™.

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Making Healthy Food Choices
What foods are healthy? What foods are unhealthy? How do you establish a plan for eating healthy foods? Let the American Diabetes Association help point you in the right direction.

Recipes & our Virtual Grocery Store
Try one of our delicious and healthy recipes from our Virtual Grocery Store.

Reading Food Labels
How can you use the food label to help you make correct and healthy food choices?

Your Guide to Eating Out
Whether it's a business meeting over lunch, dinner from a neighborhood carry out, or a fast-food meal with the kids, eating out is a part of our lives. We eat out because it's easy, it's quick, and it's fun. But is it healthy? It can be.

The WEBB Cooks
Here you can read articles on cooking and nutrition from author Robyn Webb, MS, LN, a nationally known cooking school instructor, and nutrition education.

Sweeteners & Desserts
Having diabetes used to mean a lifetime of meals that lacked the most pleasant aspect of taste: sweetness. Today, the rules for avoiding sugar have been relaxed. New artificial sweeteners can give you sweetness that tastes as good as sugar, without sugar's effect on your weight.

Frequently Asked Questions About Nutrition
What foods can I eat a lot of? Are some fats better than others? What vitamins can help my diabetes? Learn the answers to these questions and more in this section.