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Do you need special meals if you have Diabetes?
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Do you need special meals if you have Diabetes?

Donna van Zyl, Specialist Diabetic Dietician explains that there are not any specific diet for people with Diabtes. Your diet needs to be balanced and be appropriate to you and your activities and exercise.

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So special meals for diabetes, looking at diabetes overall, there is no special recommendation for diabetes except a healthy balanced diet including the macronutrients and not excluding any specific food group. And very importantly with that, is to individualize the type of dietary intake per person because it needs to be tailored according to the individual's needs, age, physical activity. So there is not one specific diet for diabetes itself.

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