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Low
Sugar & Low Fat Diet
The no concentrated sweets, low fat
diet is designed to limit the total amount of fat and sugar in the diet to
reduce serum lipid levels and to achieve and maintain near normal blood glucose
levels.
It is used for the person with either
non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus or for people who need or want to cut
down on their sugar and fat intake. The
calorie-controlled diet may be adapted for weight reduction and weight
maintenance for individuals that do not have diabetes. It is
also used for persons with elevated serum cholesterol levels or those who are
high-risk candidates for heart disease.
General Guidelines
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Limit total fat intake to less than
30% of total daily calories.
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Reduce saturated fat intake (red
meat, cheese, whole milk, butter, ice cream, etc.)
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Eat less trans fat (stick
margarine, shortening, cakes, pies, French fries, snack chips.)
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Eat less cholesterol (limit egg
yolks to more than 4 per week and meat, fish, poultry to no more than 6 ounces
a day)
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Reduce sugar intake.
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Eat more fruits, vegetables, beans,
whole grain breads, and cereals.
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Maintain a healthy weight.
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Exercise at least 30 minutes on
most days (brisk walking, aerobics, biking, etc.)
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Gradually reducing the amount of
sugar by 1/4th then l/3rd then 1/2.
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Use the "sweet" spices - cinnamon,
cloves, ginger or nutmeg - to bring out sweetness in baked goods.
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Be careful when using special diet
or dietetic foods such as dietetic cake, cookies, candy and ice cream. These
foods contain some form of sweetener and, therefore, calories.
Meal Planning Guidelines
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FOODS ALLOWED |
FOODS TO AVOID |
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MILK &
DAIRY 2-3 servings each day |
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Nonfat dry milk powder
Skim milk (nonfat milk)
Nuskim
Light milk, 1/2%, or 1%
Yogurt, plain, nonfat or low fat
Evaporated skim milk
Cottage cheese (1-2%)
Low fat cheeses (labeled 2-6
grams of fat/ounce): skim milk mozzarella, skim milk Swiss cheese, and skim
milk ricotta |
Whole or 2% milk
(regular, evaporated, condensed, chocolate),
Whole milk
yogurts
Fruited or
flavored yogurt
Milkshake, frozen
malt or frozen milkshake, frappes
Nestle's Quick
powders,
Flavored milk
(i.e. chocolate, strawberry)
Instant breakfast
Eggnog
Whole milk
cottage cheese (4% fat)
High fat cheeses:
Whole milk cheddar, Swiss, Monterey Jack,
Camembert,
American, Brie, mozzarella, fete, Muenster,
Neufchatel.
Gorgonzola, Roquefort
Cheese spreads |
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FRUIT & VEGETABLES 5-9 servings
each day |
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Fresh, frozen, canned fruits and
vegetables without added sugar
Unsweetened fruit and vegetable
juices
Water packed canned fruits |
Coconut
Vegetables
prepared in butter, cream, cheese, or high fat sauce
Fruit and
vegetables prepared in candied sauces or glazes cooked with honey, syrup,
sugar, jelly, marmalade, or jam.
Canned, fresh or
frozen fruit with sugar added; fruits packed in syrup.
Sweetened juice,
such as fruit flavored drinks |
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BREADS & GRAINS 6-11 servings each day |
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Breads: white, whole wheat,
pumpernickel, rye, and pita
Bagels, English muffins, sandwich
buns, tortillas, and dinner rolls,
Hot cereals such as oatmeal,
grits, farina, cream of wheat, most dry cereals except granola cereals
Pasta, barley, bulgur, brown and
white rice, couscous
Low fat crackers such as graham
crackers, matzo, bread sticks, rye crisps, soda crackers, rice cakes,
Zwieback; pretzels (soft or hard), popcorn
Homemade baked goods using
allowable ingredients |
Sweetened or
frosted breads, any grains prepared with sweetened sauces
Commercially
baked goods such as pies, cakes, donuts, croissants, cinnamon bread,
pastries, coffeecakes, sweet rolls, muffins, and biscuits.
Sugar coated
pre-sweetened cereals, honey flavored or fruit-flavored cereals, cocoa
flavored cereals, granola cereals
Pasta and rice
prepared with cream, butter, or cheese sauce, egg noodles;
Most snack
crackers such as cheese or butter crackers or those made with saturated fat;
pretzels, or chips |
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MEAT &
MEAT SUBSTITUTES 2-3 servings or total of 6 oz daily |
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Any meat, poultry or fish
prepared without sweet and sour marinades (made with sugar), barbecue sauces
that have catsup, chili sauce, honey or brown sugar, and teriyaki sauce
Beef
Chuck: arm, shoulder, and pot
roast
Filet mignon
Ground beef (95% lean)
Loin: porterhouse steak, top loin
steak
Loin: sirloin steak, T-bone
steak, tenderloin
Rib: rib eye steak, rib eye roast
Round: roast, steak, tip roast
Round: Top, Bottom or Eye Round
Roast (Select)
Veal:
cutlet, loin chop, and rib roast
Fish:
All Fish such as tuna (canned in water), scallops, shrimp,
lobster, flatfish, flounder,
crab, clams rainbow trout
salmon, sardines, haddock,
halibut,
red snapper, swordfish, sole,
sturgeon,
mussels, oysters, cod, perch,
pike, crayfish
Lamb:
Foreshank, braised leg, shank or
sirloin half loin, whole, broiled
Pork:
Ham, shank or rump half loin,
Tenderloin, center loin cuts
Ham, boneless [regular (11%)]
Ham, canned [extra lean (4%)]
Poultry
(without skin):
Chicken (light meat is leaner
than dark meat)
Chicken, drumstick, breast
Duck, roasted
Turkey (light meat is leaner than
dark meat)
Turkey store extra lean ground
breast
Turkey, breast, wing, leg (for
fryers and roasters-hens and toms may be twice as fatty)
Processed meats:
Canadian bacon
Beef, dried, chopped beef
Honeyloaf
Turkey pastrami, peppered loaf
Turkey ham, turkey roll (light
and dark meat)
Game: Rabbit, venison,
buffalo meat
Organ Meats: Limit to 3
oz. per month
Eggs: Egg whites,
cholesterol-free egg substitute; limit egg yolks to 3 per week |
Any meat, poultry
or fish that is fried and/or prepared with sweet and sour marinades (made
with sugar), barbecue sauces that have catsup, chili sauce, honey or brown
sugar, and teriyaki sauce.
Beef
Regular ground
round, brisket, ribs, and prime rib
Veal:
Veal cutlet
Fish:
Fried and breaded fish
Lamb:
ground, lean, broiled
Pork:
chitterlings, loin, blade, tail
Poultry:
Duck and goose, (flesh and skin)
Processed
meats:
Headcheese
Pate
Frankfurter,
turkey, chicken, beef or pork
Corned beef
Bacon
Luncheon meats
such as bologna and salami,
Chorizo
Beef jerky
Link sausage
Pepperoni
Braunschweiger,
liverwurst, bratwurst
Kielbasa,
pastrami (beef)
Caviar
Roe
Regular canned or
corned beef
Organ Meats
Liver, kidney,
sweetbread, brain (More than 3 oz. per month)
Eggs
More than 3 egg
yolks per week |
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Nuts &
Beans: |
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Dried peas and beans, such as
split peas, black-eyed peas,
Chick peas (garbonzo beans),
kidney beans, navy beans,
Lentils, soybeans, soybean curd
(tofu)
Lima beans
Natural peanut butter (use
sparingly)
Soups:
Homemade cream or meat broth
soups made without high fat milk products |
Baked beans
flavored with brown sugar, molasses, honey or maple syrup.
Regular peanut
butter
Nuts
Soups:
Cream soups made
with whole milk, cream, or half-and-half |
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FATS
(use sparingly) |
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Unsaturated vegetable oils: corn,
olive, peanut, canola, safflower, sesame, soybean
Margarine or shortenings, non
stick or tub (with unsaturated vegetable oils as the first ingredient)
Salad dressing, low fat or fat
free
Cream cheese, low fat or fat free
Mayonnaise, low fat, low
cholesterol, or fat-free
Imitation sour cream
Poly rich® non-dairy creamer
Baking cocoa |
Butter, coconut
and palm oils, lard, bacon fat
Margarine or
shortenings made with saturated fat listed above.
Salad dressings
made with egg yolk, coconut, or chocolate
Cream, half and
half, most non-dairy creamers, whipped toppings
Nondairy cream
substitutes
Coffee
whitener/cream substitute
Cream (light,
cream, or table)
Sour cream, cream
cheese, whipping cream
Regular salad
dressings (sour cream base, French, Caesar,
Ranch, blue
cheese, any cheese based dressings)
Green and black
olives |
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SNACKS
& DESSERTS (use sparingly) |
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Cakes, cookies, or pies made with
allowable ingredients.
Low fat, sugar free frozen
desserts such as frozen yogurt, sugar free Popsicles, fruit bars, and
Fudgsicles®
Low fat cakes like angel food
cake or other varieties; low fat, sugar free cookies.
Vanilla wafers, animal crackers,
gingersnaps; sugar free hard candy,
Low fat snacks such as plain
popcorn, pretzels, fat free rice cakes
Sugar free gelatin dessert, sugar
free cocoa mixes
Sugar substitutes
Sugar free jellies, jams, fruit
spreads |
High fat frozen
desserts: ice cream, frozen tofu or custard, most store bought frosted
cakes, and cookies, candy, chocolate bars; potato and corn chips prepared
with saturated fat, buttered, caramelized or cheese popcorn, prepackaged
microwave popcorn
Pop tarts, fruit
rolls
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MISCELLANEOUS |
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Non-fat, sugar free beverages
like carbonated drinks, water, tea, and coffee;
Sugar free mineral water
Sugar free drinks like sugar-
free lemonade, sugar- free Kool-Aid, sugar- free punch
Club soda
Mustard, vinegar, cooking wine,
herbs and spices
Soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce,
low fat tartar sauce, picante sauce, salsa, tobasco sauce |
High fat
beverages like frappes, milk shakes, floats, and eggnog;
Regular
carbonated beverages or soft drinks
Sweetened fruit
drinks, Kool-Aid, Hi-C,
Tonic water,
beer, wine, alcohol, hard liquor
Sweetened
carbonated and mineral waters
Sweetened cocoa
mixes
Blended Juice,
nectars
Orange Plus or
Tang |
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LABEL
INGREDIENTS |
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Carob
Cocoa
Oils, like corn, cottonseed,
olive, safflower,
sesame, soybean, or sunflower
Nonfat dry milk, nonfat dry milk
solids, skim milk |
Animal fat, like
bacon, beef, ham, lamb,
Brown sugar
Butter
Chocolate
Cocoa butter
Coconut, coconut
oil, palm kernel or palm oil
Corn syrup
Corn syrup solids
Cream
Dextrose
Egg and egg-yolk
solids
Fructose
Glucose
Hardened fat or
oil
High fructose
corn syrup
Honey
Hydrogenated
vegetable oil
Lactose
Lard
Maltose
Mannitol
Meat, pork,
chicken or turkey fats,
Modified food
starch
Molasses
Natural
sweeteners
Shortening or
vegetable shortening
Sorbitol
Sucrose
Sugar
Syrups (maple,
sorghum, and other assorted).
Unspecified
vegetable oil (could be coconut, coconut oil, palm kernel or palm oil)
Coconut, coconut oil, palm kernel or palm oil |
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CONDIMENTS |
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BBQ sauce
Brown sugar
Catsup
Chili sauce
Corn syrup
Honey
Jam
Jelly
Molasses
Most prepared
sauces
Party spreads
Regular chewing
gum
Steak sauce
Sugar
Sweet pickles
Syrup (maple,
sorghum, and other assorted)
Tartar sauce
Teriyaki sauce |
The above opinionated
views and information serves to educated and informed consumer. The information
provided herein should not be used during any medical emergency or for the
diagnosis or treatment of any medical condition. It should not replaced
professional advise and consultation. A licensed physician should be consulted
for diagnosis and treatment of any and all medical conditions
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