Thumbs Up For Diabetic Club Website!
The Diabetes Club is a website dedicated to helping you reduce your blood sugar through nutrition and exercise. Registered dietitian Emilia Klapp brings a wealth of knowledge, recipes and tips to those looking for solutions to their personal diabetes problems. Presented in layman’s terms, Emilia provides nutritional and diabetic education with a perfect balance between science and everyday info that you can actually use to change your life.
Emilia Klapp, R.D., B.S. was born and raised in Madrid on your typical Mediterranean diet. Growing up as the daughter of a tailor, she led an active lifestyle and ate a hearty diet of mostly fish, some chicken and lamb, dry beans, lentils, chickpeas, lots of fruits and vegetables, and of course plenty of olive oil. After moving to the United States as an adult she became aware of how lucky she was to have been raised on a lean protein high-nutrient diet. Loss of friends to unexpected disease and the awareness of her own lack of “good choices” as an adult lead her to becoming a registered dietitian.
The Diabetes Club has three purposes:
- Teach you what nutrition and science has proven to be the best course of action for diabetic health
- Help you to lower your blood sugar and lose weight
- Show you that a healthy life does not mean depriving yourself
Emilia brings the Mediterranean influence into the site, expanding on the now proven fact that the healthy diet that was natural to her homeland is in fact the way everyone should eat.
Mediterranean Diet = Diabetic Meal Plan
Although Emilia ate “right” as a child, it was out of necessity, not so much by choice. Today the key characteristics of a Mediterranean diet are the foundation of many diet plans including the ideal diabetic diet plan.
- Abundant fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, whole grain cereals and whole grain breads. (If you are diabetic, do not eat more than 3 pieces of fruit a day.)
- Extra virgin olive oil as the primary source of fat
- Low intake of saturated fat and trans fats
- Low amounts of dairy products
- Fish, poultry, and eggs a few times a week
- Red meat only a few times a month
Symptoms Of Diabetes
The Diabetes Club brings unlimited resources to diabetics as well as non-diabetics. The range of articles covers science, diabetic friendly recipes, nutrition, exercise, and other important issues in controlling diabetes, such as recognizing symptoms. Some articles include a little bit of nutritional science explained in everyday terms with pictures of your fat cells or pancreas, and others are just plain fun, fast recipes to create for the whole family. There is also a archived section with PDF downloads on other articles that you can print and share with your whole family.
Some of the articles on the blog and in the download section include:
- Why soda is bad
- How to pick food in a fast food restaurant
- Vitamin D, C and how they affect diabetics
- How to pick the RIGHT carbs
- Symptoms of insulin resistance
- Easy pasta recipes for the whole family
Diabetes And Children
According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA) there are over 225,000 U.S. deaths per year attributed to diabetes, many of them children. This is a website that can change your life and that of your family! The Diabetes Club is a vast resource that should be used by every diabetic to learn more about their disease and how to control it. In addition, the site is an awesome resource center for families looking for tips to prevent diabetes in their children. With diabetes affecting more and more young people every day, The Diabetes Club has what your family needs to maintain a healthy weight and reduce the risk for diabetes.
Emilia’s background, education and passion make this site a must bookmark for all families.
I strongly recommend that you visit:
http://www.thediabetesclub.com
