In this section, you will find materials to assist your patients with learning about Diabetes and Diabetes management:
Resources
The following resources are organized by site section:Health Management
Activity & Exercise
Exercise & Blood Glucose
Diet & Nutrition
Understanding Food
- Food List (carbohydrate portions)
- Nutrition Facts updates
- How to read Food Labels
Understanding Carbohydrates
- Carbohydrates
- Calculating Carbohydrate By Food Weight
- 3-Day Food Record
- Counting Carbohydrates
- Sugar and sugar substitutes
Understanding Fats & Oils
- Good Fats, Bad Fats - Cholesterol content of foods
- Facts on Cholesterol & Fat
- Heart Healthy Recipe Modifications
- Heart Healthy Diet
Diabetes & Alcohol
Managing Your Weight
Diabetes Treatment
Monitoring Diabetes
The Importance Of Recording Your Blood Glucose
- Food Record Instructions
- Printable Type 1 Intensive Log Book
- Printable Type 2 Diet Log Book
- Printable Type 2 Comprehensive Log Book
- Printable Type 2 Insulin Log Book
- Printable Type 2 Intensive Log Book
Medications & Therapy
Type 1 Insulin Therapy
Type 2 Insulin Therapy
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
Type 2 Diabetes
- 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
Research
- http://www.diabetes.ucsf.edu
- http://www.diabetestrialnet.org
- http://www.immunetolerance.org
- http://www.jdrf.org
- http://www.nih.gov
- http://www.citregistry.org
Resources
- http://www.fda.gov
- http://www.cdc.gov
- http://www.childrenwithdiabetes.com
- http://www.diabetes.org
- http://www.diabetes.ucsf.edu
- http://www.tsa.gov
- http://www.ucsf.edu
- http://www.ucsf.edu/about-ucsf
- http://www.ucsfhealth.org
- http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/
- http://www.epa.gov/smokefree/
- Dogs for Diabetics (San Francisco Chronicle)