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Meeting Children’s Special Food and Nutrition Needs in Child Nutrition Programs Lesson 2: Helping Students with Diabetes

Meeting Children’s Special Food and Nutrition Needs in Child Nutrition Programs Lesson 2: Helping Students with Diabetes. Define diabetes and explain the difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes Learn dietary treatments for diabetes

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Meeting Children’s Special Food and Nutrition Needs in Child Nutrition Programs Lesson 2: Helping Students with Diabetes

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  1. Meeting Children’s Special Food and Nutrition Needs in Child Nutrition ProgramsLesson 2: Helping Students with Diabetes • Define diabetes and explain the difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes • Learn dietary treatments for diabetes • Describe six accommodations that school food service can make for a student with diabetes Learning Objectives

  2. Diabetes • Diabetes – the body cannot produce or use insulin • Insulin – a hormone that helps the body to use glucose as energy • Type 1 • Type 2

  3. Dietary Considerations • Grains and starches • Protein • Fat • Meals and snacks

  4. Diabetic Meal Plans • Food Guides From ADA website: http://www.diabetes.org/nutrition-and-recipes/nutrition/foodpyramid.jsp & USDA website: http://mypyramid.gov/

  5. Diabetic Meal Plans • Diabetic Exchanges • Carbohydrate (includes starch, fruit, milk and vegetable), meat/meat alternate, fat • Carbohydrate Counting • Number of grams of carbohydrate in each meal (labels, lists)

  6. Food Service Assistants • Plan on file at school • Follow plan carefully • Correct portion sizes are crucial • Snacks • Labels or computerized nutrient information • Offer a variety of healthy choices for all students

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