Diabetic recipes or websites? Especially desserts.

bclintonk
Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:57:12 +0000

We have diabetes in our family. Unfortunately–or fortunately, depending on how you look at it—healthy eating for a diabetic is not a simple matter of substituting for sugar. It’s about carefully counting and controlling all carbohydrates at each meal and throughout the day. A diabetic can eat a regular dessert with sugar, so long as they’re avoiding carbs elsewhere—e.g., skipping the mashed potatoes during the main meal and saving the allowable carbs for dessert. Sure, other things equal, less sugar is better, but sugar per se is no worse for diabetics than other carbs; a fruit pie made with a sugar substitute can still have tons of carbohydrates in the crust and in the fruit itself, and eliminating the sugar simply doesn’t address that.

Here’s a general discussion on this topic from the highly regarded Joslin Diabetes Center, affiliated with the Harvard Medical School and probably the world’s leading center for diabetic research:

[The Truth About the So-Called “Diabetes Diet” | Joslin Diabetes Center](Education Programs and Classes | Joslin Diabetes Center)

And here’s a list of over 1,000 low- or moderate-carb desserts, complete with carb and calorie content per serving:

[Diabetic Recipes](http://www.dlife.com/diabetes/diabetic-recipes/category-Desserts.html)