Resource Materials
In this section, you will find materials to assist your patients with learning about diabetes and diabetes management:
Handouts
The handouts are organized by site section:
Health Management
Activity & Exercise
Exercise & Blood Sugar
- Snacks for Exercise (PDF)
Diet & Nutrition
Understanding Food
- Food Exchange Lists (PDF)
- 1200 calorie sample meal plan using exchange lists for diabetes (PDF)
- 1600 calorie sample meal plan using exchange lists for diabetes (PDF)
- Nutrition Facts (PDF)
Understanding Carbohydrates
- Carbohydrates (PDF)
- Calculating Carbohydrate By Food Weight (PDF)
- 3-Day Food Record (PDF)
- Counting Carbohydrates (PDF)
- 1-day sample 45g CHO per meal menu plan using carb exchange lists (PDF)
- 1-day sample 60g CHO per meal menu plan using carb exchange lists (PDF)
- Sugar and sugar substitutes (PDF)
Understanding Fats & Oils
- Good Fats, Bad Fats - Cholesterol content of foods (PDF)
- Facts on Cholesterol & Fat (PDF)
- Heart Healthy Recipe Modifications (PDF)
- Heart Healthy Diet (PDF)
Diabetes & Alcohol
Managing Your Weight
- The Plate Method (PDF)
Diabetes Treatment
Monitoring diabetes
The Importance Of Recording Your Blood Glucose
- Food Record Instructions (PDF)
- Printable Type 1 Intensive Log Book (PDF)
- Printable Type 2 Diet Log Book (PDF)
- Printable Type 2 Comprehensive Log Book (PDF)
- Printable Type 2 Insulin Log Book (PDF)
- Printable Type 2 Intensive Log Book (PDF)
Medications & Therapy
Type 1 Insulin Therapy
- Storage of Insulin Products (PDF)
- Insulin Action Profile (PDF)
Type 2 Insulin Therapy
- Pharmacokinetics (PDF)
- Storage of Insulin Products (PDF)
- Oral Agents (PDF)
- Insulin Action Profile (PDF)
Illustrations
Understanding Diabetes
- Insulin and Glucose work throughout the body
- Insulin is made in the pancreas
- The effect of Insulin
- Normal blood glucose and insulin levels over 24 hours
- Normal plasma glucose levels
- ADA target plasma glucose recommendations
- Type 1 diabetes: Insufficient Insulin
- Type 2 diabetes: Insulin resistance
- Assumptions about Type 2 diabetes
- Type 2 diabetes screening and risk factors
- Assumptions about Type 2 diabetes: Associated problems
- Assumptions about Type 2 diabetes: Disease progression
- Assumptions about Type 2 diabetes: Genetics and environment
- Why is diabetes increasing?
- Diabetes is a world wide epidemic
- Glucose production by the liver during fasting conditions
- Ketone production by the liver during fasting conditions
- The effect of Amylin
- The effect of GLP1 and GIP
- Glucose counter-regulatory hormones: effect on the liver
- Glucose counter-regulatory hormones: effect on fat and muscle
Health Management
- Three kinds of nutrients = Food
- Calorie scale
- Energy scale for food
- How much of each type of food should you eat?
- Sucrose and starch are comprised of glucose
- How starch enters the blood stream
- Sample food label : General, For fiber, For sugar alcohol
- The structure of cholesterol and triglyceride
- The source of cholesterol in your body
- The source of triglyceride in your body
Diabetes Treatment
Type 1 Diabetes
- Normal plasma glucose levels
- ADA target plasma glucose recommendations
- Normal blood glucose and insulin levels over 24 hours
- Normal blood glucose and insulin levels over 24 hours: 2
- Normal blood glucose and insulin levels over 24 hours: 3
- Background or basal insulin replacement
- Mealtime or bolus insulin replacement
- Intensive insulin replacement
- Long-acting insulin analogs
- Rapid-acting insulin analogs
- Intensive insulin therapy: Multiple daily injections/CS II insuin regimens
- Insulin regimen with an insulin pump
- Diabetes can affect various parts of your body
- Hypoglycemia
- Diabetic Ketoacidosis
- High blood sugar damages cells
- Diabetes affects the retina
- Diabetes affects the kidney
- Diabetes affects the nerves
- Treating Type 2 diabetes
- Normal plasma glucose levels
- ADA target plasma glucose recommendations
- Normal blood glucose and insulin levels over 24 hours
- Normal blood glucose and insulin levels over 24 hours: 2
- Normal blood glucose and insulin levels over 24 hours: 3
- Background or basal insulin replacement
- Mealtime or bolus insulin replacement
- Intensive insulin replacement
- Long-acting insulin analogs
- Rapid-acting insulin analogs
- Current intensive insulin regimen for Type 2 diabetes
- Sliding scale insulin regimens for Type 2 diabetes
- Sliding scale insulin regimens for Type 2 diabetes using multiple daily injections
- Sliding scale insulin regimens for Type 2 diabetes: Pre-mixed regimens
- Insulin regimens for Type 2 diabetes using one daily injection of insulin
- Insulin regimen with an insulin pump
- Diabetes can affect various parts of your body
- Hypoglycemia
- Diabetic Ketoacidosis
- High blood sugar damages cells
- Diabetes affects the retina
- Diabetes affects the kidney
- Diabetes affects the nerves
- Assumptions about Type 2 diabetes: Associated problems
Website Links
Meters
- http://www.abbottdiabetescare.com
- http://www.accu-chek.com
- http://www.agamatrix.com
- http://www.bayerdiabetes.com
- http://www.homediagnostics.com
- http://www.lifescan.com
- http://www.relion.com
- http://www.roche.com
Pumps
- http://www.animascorp.com
- http://www.cozmore.com
- http://www.medtronic-diabetes.com
- http://www.myomnipod.com
- http://www.sooilusa.com
Insulin and Needle Companies
- http://www.bddiabetes.com/us/main.aspx?cat=2&id=405
- http://www.lillydiabetes.com
- http://www.novonordisk-us.com
- http://www.owenmumford.com
- http://www.sanofi-aventis.com/us
Continuous Glucose Monitors
Nutrition
- www.calorieking.com
- http://www.mypyramid.gov
- http://www.integrateddiabetes.com/carbtest.shtml
- http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/hbp/dash/new_dash.pdf
Research
- http://www.diabetes.ucsf.edu
- http://www.diabetestrialnet.org
- http://www.immunetolerance.org
- http://www.jdrf.org
- http://www.newonsetdiabetes.org
- http://www.nih.gov
Resources
- http://www.cdc.gov
- www.childrenwithdiabetes.com
- http://www.diabetes.org
- http://www.diabetes.org/whos-who-on-your-health-care-team.jsp
- http://www.diabetes.ucsf.edu
- http://www.tsa.gov
- http://www.ucsf.edu
- http://www.ucsf.edu/about-ucsf
- http://www.ucsfhealth.org
- Dogs for Diabetics