7 Healthy Desserts for Your Diabetes Diet
Chocolate mousse pies, parfaits, luscious cakes topped with fruit. If you have diabetes, you'll have to bid farewell to such desserts, right?
Wrong, says Lara Rondinelli, RD, CDE, diabetes center coordinator at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
''At diagnosis, people think that their life's going to change, and in many ways it does,'' she says. But embarking on a strange new diet, dull and devoid of pleasures, isn't one of them, she says.
In fact, deprivation can backfire, says Rondinelli, author of the American Diabetes Association cookbook Healthy Calendar Diabetic Cooking.
"If people are too restrictive and don't allow themselves any sweets or favorite foods, they can get frustrated and go on binges,'' she says.
''It's a matter of balance,'' Amy Jamieson-Petonic, RD, a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association, says of desserts and sweet treats. ''They can fit into your meal plan when you work with a diabetes educator.''
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Wrong, says Lara Rondinelli, RD, CDE, diabetes center coordinator at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
''At diagnosis, people think that their life's going to change, and in many ways it does,'' she says. But embarking on a strange new diet, dull and devoid of pleasures, isn't one of them, she says.
In fact, deprivation can backfire, says Rondinelli, author of the American Diabetes Association cookbook Healthy Calendar Diabetic Cooking.
"If people are too restrictive and don't allow themselves any sweets or favorite foods, they can get frustrated and go on binges,'' she says.
''It's a matter of balance,'' Amy Jamieson-Petonic, RD, a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association, says of desserts and sweet treats. ''They can fit into your meal plan when you work with a diabetes educator.''
How Well Are You Managing Your Type 2 Diabetes