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Diabetes 101 provides simple, easy to understand information for persons with pre-diabetes and diabetes. It takes a complicated, yet life-quality-dependent subject, and breaks it down into important steps that are easy to learn and remember. The overall goal to reduce complications is what it is all about.

When individuals are first diagnosed with diabetes they are overwhelmed. Diabetes is a shocking and upsetting diagnosis.

This 101 show will get everyone up to speed fast with common terms and numbers that are easy to understand and up to date from the American Diabetes Association.

Patients and their families will be reassured that the prevalence of diabetes is sky rocketing so they are not alone.

Patients will receive just the facts they need to go forward and ensure the quality of their life by managing their ABCs.

They will be given positive and easy steps to improve their diet.

This show is warm and friendly. It is not a complicated medical lesson that is intimidating. It is empowering.

What is Diabetes?

• ABCs of Diabetes Management
• A1C
• Blood Pressure
• Cholesterol
• It's All About Meal Planning
• Learn About Serving Sizes
• Carbohydrate Counting
• Fiber for Blood Sugar Control
• Counting Fat Grams
• Gain Control of Blood Sugar
• Get Moving for Diabetes
• and more... Add a colorful "Diabetes Poster" to your classroom!

Learning Objectives: 

Participants learn three easy lessons:

• How to read a food label to find carbohydrates. How to evaluate if a food product is "heart-healthy by looking at sodium, saturated fat, and trans fat. Does it have fiber? Or added sugar? 
• What is a carbohydrate serving to manage diabetes? How to figure it out by reading a label? What is the amount of common foods? This point will also illustrate the third point. 
• Instead of going crazy memorizing foods and looking them up on unwieldy lists, make a healthy diabetes plate by filling half your plate with non-starchy vegetables, one-quarter healthy protein, and one-quarter whole grain or starchy veg. This will put you in an acceptable "per meal" range of carbohydrates for most people. It is a simple rule of thumb for people on the go!

Learning objectives & benefits:

Diabetes Risk provides the most recent information from the National Institute of Health Education program with tips from Hollis Bass, MEd, RD and FHC cooking/recipe tips.

Find simple, easy to understand information about pre-diabetes and diabetes, their risk factors, symptoms, and prevention.

The simple-to-understand PowerPoint show and accompanying copy-ready handouts and leader guide provide basic information to your clients:

What is Diabetes?

• Know your Glucose Numbers
• The Three Types of Diabetes
• Pre-Diabetes
• Am I At Risk?
• Risk Factors
• Family
• Medical
• Lifestyle
• Symptoms of Diabetes
• Decreasing Your Chances of Getting Diabetes
• Eat Healthy
• More Fruits, Veggies, Whole Grains and Beans
• Less Sugar, Fat and Sodium
• Be Active
• and more...
• Add a colorful "Diabetes Risk Poster" to your classroom!

Don't re-invent the wheel - use our program with up to the minute information, be up and running right away with a wonderful format, easy to understand, catchy graphics and colors.

EATING WITH DIABETES POWERPOINT AND HANDOUT LESSON

When you need to look your very best now...

Learning objectives & benefits:

• Since blood sugar control is the primary goal with diabetes management – whether type 1, type 2 or gestational diabetes – some foods are better at stabilizing blood sugar (i.e., slow carbs) and others raise blood sugar more quickly (i.e., fast carbs). The key is balancing your plate with all food groups: carbohydrates, lean proteins, and healthy fats, to keep blood sugar fluctuations at bay. The Eating With Diabetes PPT and Handout Lesson will provide valuable strategies for eating well with diabetes.
• Timing Is Everything: Timing your meals is important. Eating too often is not good for you or your blood sugar levels, and going too long without eating is also a recipe for disaster. So how do you find balance?
• Eat Every 3-4 Hours
• What Happens If You Wait Too Long?
• Symptoms of Hypoglycemia
• Meet the Carbohydrate: Carbohydrates are key to blood sugar control - some make it easier, while others make it harder. Once you know what to look for, managing your carbohydrate consumption is pretty straightforward.
• What Are Carbohydrates?
• Slow vs Fast Carbohydrates
• Reading a Food Label: It's not always easy to tell a slow carb from a fast carb, especially when it comes to packaged food. Luckily, food labels can shed a lot of light on the situation.
• What Is a Carbohydrate Serving?
• What to Look For
• Make a Healthful Plate: Planning out meals and snacks and knowing exactly what you're eating is key to diabetes management.
• Stick to a Schedule
• Measure your Portions
• Skip Empty Calories
• Try Superfoods
• ...and more

Learning Objectives: 

Participants learn three easy lessons:

• Go shopping with your clients to help them remember important label reading points in our virtual store
• A PowerPoint show lets you bring the store to your classroom or office with photos of key foods.
• This program is great for classroom or counseling and can even be used for staff education.
• Use it for conducting grocery store shopping tours with the aisle by aisle tips and handouts.
• 10 Lessons with 65 pages of handouts and leader guides for Shopping Smart for Persons with Diabetes
• Grains, Breads, Pasta, Cereals, Breakfast Foods
• Produce
• Canned Foods
• Dairy Foods
• Condiments, Sugar Substitutes and prepared Items
• Fats, Margarines and Oils
• Beverages
• Pharmacy
• Grains, Breads, Pasta, Cereals, Breakfast Foods
• Produce
• This guide will help you teach savvy shopping tips to those with diabetes.
• Tips for shopping in each section of the store are given so patients with diabetes can make better choices for managing their health.
• More handouts on important topics for persons with diabetes include:
• healthy lifestyle,
• carb counting,
• body mass index,
• ideal body weight worksheets,
• sick day rules,
• how to read a nutrition facts label,
• the healthy plate,
• diabetes management tips, and
• a Take Me Shopping copy-ready, double-sided brochure are included.
• PowerPoint Show -
• Comprehensive: 52 very colorful slides go over every aisle from produce to the meat counter with every aisle in between.
• Flexible: bring the store to your classroom or private office. This can save you a lot of time and effort yet show your clients very visual examples.
• Relevant for diabetes management: Give important tips, including label reading, using great photos of all the key foods in the store. Find more fiber, avoid excess sodium, discover sweeteners, choose leaner protein, find whole grains, learn about the importance of fruits and veggies and how to fit those into your meals so you get enough. Learn portion control. And find magarines that are low in saturated fat and trans fat and even contain phytochemicals to lower cholesterol. Point out lower-fat dairy options and learn to like skim milk. How do you find carbs on the label and count them for servings?

People with type 1 diabetes are at a heightened risk for mental health issues, including diabetes distress, depression, anxiety, and disordered eating. However, these are all treatable disorders. It is important to pay attention to your feelings about having diabetes or taking care of someone who has diabetes.

When you aren't able to manage your diabetes well, your risk goes up for diabetes complications like heart disease and nerve damage. People with diabetes are 2 to 3 times more likely to have depression than people without diabetes. Only 25% to 50% of people with diabetes who have depression get diagnosed and treated.

• If you have diabetes — either type 1 or type 2 — you have an increased risk of developing depression. And if you're depressed, you may have a greater chance of developing type 2 diabetes. The good news is that diabetes and depression can be treated together.

Learning Objectives: 

Learn about the signs of depression and Diabetes:

• Depression can sneak up on anybodySometimes, there’s a sadness or an emotional flatness that just won’t go away. Sometimes, you just feel hopeless—and have no idea what comes next. However it shows up, depression can be hard to detect and can wreak havoc with your self care. Spotting depression is important—and it’s important to check for these symptoms

Recognize how to deal anger:

• It’s natural to feel angry. It can start with your diagnosis. It can go from “why me?” to pure rage at your disease. Anger is an important part of your journey toward accepting your life with diabetes. And while it can feel good and empowering, out-of-control anger can be harmful to you and those around you—and it can lead to depression and stress.

Learn about "Denial":

• An important part of steering out of denial is recognizing how it sounds in your head—and how it makes you avoid critical care. If you catch yourself saying or thinking any of the following phrases, you my be in denial: "One bite won't hurt.", "This sore will heal itself.", "I'll go to the doctor later.", "I don't have time to do it.", "My diabetes isn't serious."

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