| Whether you have diabetes or a close loved one | | | | but use it in smaller quantities or use dark chocolate |
| does, converting your meals to be healthy diabetic | | | | instead. Dark chocolate is known to have more |
| recipes is important for optimal health in the short and | | | | anti-oxidants than the standard milk chocolate and |
| long-term. Healthy diabetic recipes don't have to lack | | | | depending on the chocolate, less fat. |
| taste, but you do have to get a little creative to find | | | | When choosing ice Cream, look for lower fat, light, |
| substitute ingredients to replace sugar and other | | | | sugar-free, or no sugar added choices. Your best |
| starches that have a high glycemic number. It is | | | | choice will be the sugar-free or no sugar added |
| possible to be diabetic and still have the foods you | | | | products, but be careful of the quantity you eat as well |
| love including cakes, pies, and desserts, but adjusting | | | | as the fat content as all calories will convert to fat. |
| standard recipes is necessary. | | | | Another dessert favorite, cheesecake can also |
| Adjusting recipes to make them diabetic friendly may | | | | become diabetic-friendly by substituting the higher |
| mean reducing sugar significantly or taking it our | | | | sugar and fat ingredients for ones that are better for |
| entirely, or replacing sugar for sugar-free products | | | | you. Yes, you can have your cheesecake and eat it |
| such as Splenda, granulated fructose, or sucaryl. For | | | | too! By using ricotta cream cheese, light cream |
| extra health you can also switch recipes that include | | | | cheese, and unsweetened juice concentrates, you can |
| regular white flour for wheat flour, barley flour, or soy | | | | still have your favorite cheesecake in your favorite |
| flour. | | | | flavors such as chocolate, cherry, pumpkin, etc. Yum. |
| If making recipes that include, chocolate, don't give it up, | | | | |