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Fasting With Diabetes: Ask Your Doctor First

With Ramadan just behind us, and Yom Kippur just ahead, fast is the word. Fasting is challenging for anyone, and for diabetics it's especially important to fast safely. The approach to safe fasting depends on your treatment. If you use only insulin sensitizers, you should not experience any major issues when fasting. For type 2 diabetics taking secretagogues (including incretin-based), just not taking them during the period of the fast should be sufficient.

Rosh Hashana and the Pomegranate

Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, is just around the corner. Traditionally, Rosh Hashana meals include apples and honey which symbolize a sweet new year, and guarantee a fast rise in blood glucose levels. So what's a diabetic to do? One option is, of course, to have a tiny bite and call it quits....

Easter in Rome and the Art of Enjoying Good Food

As a person with diabetes, eating the right foods is always an issue, but it was in Rome - surprisingly - a place where carbohydrates reign, that I learned the art of eating...

Grilled Lamb Chops with Provençal Dressing

Lamb is a wonderful alternative to the classic Easter ham. This recipe can be easily modified to accommodate a rack of lamb rather than individual lamb chops, if preferred. I personally prefer the taste of the individually grilled chops..

Real Eggs Have no Carbs

If you're putting together an Easter basket for a child with diabetes, try replacing sugary candies with colorfully dyed hard-boiled eggs. If that seems too boring, add in a few inedible toys -- like a stuffed animal or a small game. Remember: "fun" doesn't have to mean "sweet," and this is true for adults as well.

The Matzah Review

Standing in the kosher aisle of my local supermarket, I was confronted by more varieties of matzah than I (as a person who has attended a total of three Seders in my life) knew existed...

Passover Food

Passover food isn't low-carb. If you're going to a Seder this year, there is likely to be more than enough matzo to go around. Matzo, a bread substitute, has over 20 grams of carbohydrate per slice. Our advice - have a bite or two and then move right on to the gefilte fish.

Leek Latkes

The zucchini latkes recipe we posted a few days ago is delicious, and a perfect low-carb Hanukkah option. Jess told me, however, good as the zucchini latkes are, they don’t really give her the feeling of latkes like her grandmother, Bashy, used to make.

What’s For Dinner?

Eating is of such vital importance, not just for survival, but a part of our lives’ enjoyment and entertainment, that I set out to make sure that my taste buds were not insulted. The Christmas presents from me that year would be the top notch foodstuffs for a diabetic diet...

Zucchini Latkes

This simple Zucchini Latkes recipe replaces potatoes with low-carb zucchini, so we can enjoy a traditional Hanukkah dish without the risk of a major blood sugar spike.