Quote:sure! If you have diabetes you have to have a certain caloric intake, a certain intake of carbohydrates, a certain amount of sodium and protein fats and sugars...

 

many foods can give you that, but you have to count everything you eat and calculate...most people dont have to do that they just grab some meat. cook it throw in some potatoes and a veggie and call that eating healthy and while it looks like it's a well balanced meal, it's really not...

 

Quote:I'm not sure what you're disagreeing with here? In order to eat the prescribed diet for DM you can certainly live on what I stated and do it on the cheap. You're overstating the costs of eating a healthy diet.

 

Quote:He needs foods suitable for diabetics. Sugar free, low carb. A can of veggies off the shelf at Walmart fits that need. So does a steak from Publix. He doesn't need "organically grown" versions of those foods, that's just a want.

 

Quote:Those foods are cheap now and people don't buy them, because of convenience not cost.

We were talking about eating healthier not just ok foods...

 

Quick lesson in eating healthy...

 

on the labels of foods there is a list of ingredients  which give you the RDA PER serving of the food...In order to be a healthy meal, you have to look at the label and add the amounts of the stuff like calories, fats, trans fat, carbs, protein, potassium, and all that PER SERVING...

 

The basic caloric intake should be 2000-2400 per day... I just use the percentages of the other stuff to see where I'm at...

 

For instance, a bowl of cereal ONE serving is usually a half a cup (some is 3/4) which is about the amount you can hold in the palm of your hand and is about 17% of the carbs you should eat in one day...

 

No one eats that little...Most  people will fill the bowl over half full which is usually around 1 1/2 or 2 cups which amounts to 2 1/2 to 4 four servings... so using a half a cup as a serving size which is 17% per serving and you eat 4 servings, you just ate 68% of the carbs you are supposed to eat all day...Thats not counting the milk either just the cereal... you still have 2 more meals to eat and only 32% of your carbs left for the day before you are not eating healthy...

 

To have a healthy balanced nutritious meal, that above should be done for every meal to actually be a healthy and nutritious meal and it's not just for carbs either, its for all the stuff you are supposed to eat every day 

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