Diabetes: Coping With Your Feelings About Your Diet: Where To Go From Here

Diabetes: Coping With Your Feelings About Your Diet
Introduction
What are your feelings about the diet for diabetes?
Why deal with negative feelings?
How to deal with negative feelings about your diet for diabetes
Where to go from here
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Where to go from here

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Now that you have read this information, you may be ready to deal with your negative feelings about a diet for diabetes. You know that positive feelings about yourself and your diet can also help motivate you to stay on your diet for diabetes.

Talk with your diabetes specialist (doctor, registered dietitian, or certified diabetes educator).

If you have questions or have identified areas that you need help with, take it with you when you visit your diabetes specialist.

If you would like more information on dealing with your feelings about diabetes, the following resources are available:

Organization

American Diabetes Association (ADA)
1701 North Beauregard Street
Alexandria, VA 22311
Phone:	1-800-DIABETES (1-800-342-2383)
E-mail:	AskADA@diabetes.org
Web Address:	www.diabetes.org

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is a national organization for health professionals and consumers. Almost every state has a local office. ADA sets the standards for the care of people with diabetes. Its focus is on research for the prevention and treatment of all types of diabetes. ADA provides patient and professional education mainly through its publications, which include the monthly magazine Diabetes Forecast, books, brochures, cookbooks and meal planning guides, and pamphlets. ADA also provides information for parents about caring for a child with diabetes.

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Last updated:	October 03, 2008
Author:	Caroline Rea, RN, BS, MS
Reviewed By:	Caroline S. Rhoads, MD - Internal Medicine, Matthew I. Kim, MD - Endocrinology & Metabolism
Editors:	Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA, Pat Truman, MATC

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