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The Nutrition Recommendations and Principles for People with Diabetes Mellitus provide diabetes medical nutrition therapy (MNT) guidelines for individuals living in a home setting; however, they do not include information about how to incorporate the recommendations into health care facilities. Health care facilities are defined as institutions providing acute and long-term medical and nursing care for people with diabetes.

60% to 80 % of men with type 2 diabetes have erectile dysfunction. This is caused by a combination of high blood sugar and hardening of the arteries. There are several treatmen options, which your doctor will be able to explain in more detail.

With tablet treatment, you rarely get hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar). But if the blood sugar is lowered after a long period of high blood sugars, you can sometimes feel low, because the body is used to the higher values. We therefore recommend to check your blood sugar if you experience hypoglycaemia.Insulin is taken as injections under the skin, most often using an insulin pen. You can get pamphlets about insulin treatment at your doctor or outpatient clinic, and you will always receive thorough instruction before you start using insulin.

How many meals per day? Try to eat smaller, but more frequent meals during the day. So, for example, this could mean having smaller portions at breakfast, lunch and dinner, but then also having some snacks between each meal.

It's a good idea to measure your blood sugar in the morning before breakfast, as people with type 2 diabetes often have high blood sugar in the morning. Every now and then, you should also test your blood sugar one and a half hours after each meal, to see just how high the blood sugar gets after you have eaten. In this way, you get to know your diabetes and how to control it.

A near normal blood sugar will make you feel revitalized and energetic, and it will help you reduce the risk of developing complications of diabetes. A healthy diet and exercise will also help you reduce your levels of blood lipids (fats), which means your risk of developing cardiovascular disease is reduced.

This website has been produced to give people with type 2 diabetes, their families and friends the basic information and advice they need to learn to manage the condition and to live as normal a life as possible. By reading this booklet, you will see how there is much to be gained by looking after your body, keeping healthy and managing your diabetes as effectively as possible.

our knowledge of the early stages of hyperglycemia that portend the diagnosis of diabetes, and the recent success of major intervention trials, clearly show that individuals at high risk can be identified and diabetes delayed, if not prevented. The costeffectiveness of intervention strategies is unclear, but the huge burden resulting from the complications of diabetes and the potential ancillary benefits of some of the interventions suggest that an effort to prevent diabetes may be worthwhile.

Medical nutrition therapy is an integral component of diabetes management and of diabetes self-management education. Yet many misconceptions exist concerning nutrition and diabetes. Moreover, in clinical practice, nutrition recommendations that have little or no supporting evidence have been and are still being given to persons with diabetes. Accordingly, this position statement provides evidence-based principles and recommendations for diabetes medical nutrition therapy.

Diabetes is a chronic illness that requires continuing medical care and patient self-management education to prevent acute complications and to reduce the risk of long-term complications. Diabetes care is complex and requires that many issues, beyond glycemic control, be addressed. A large body of evidence exists that supports a range of interventions to improve diabetes outcomes.