Healthy Eating for Type 2 Diabetes
This easy-to-follow online course to help you better manage diabetes through a healthy diet combined with lifestyle choices like regular exercise. Through our interactive features, videos, charts, and quizzes, you’ll learn it’s possible not just to LIVE with diabetes, but to live WELL.
Step-by-step, this easy-to-follow Course helps you better understand Type 2 Diabetes and shows how you can help control it with easy-to-apply lifestyle changes.
Luscious recipes, breakthrough nutritional advice, engaging videos, helpful charts and a variety of easy-to-use tools clearly answer your questions. Best of all, these potent tools come straight from the medical experts at Harvard Medical School. You’ll discover:
- The ABCs of diabetes control: Learn about practical, everyday-useful advice to help bring down A1C blood sugar levels…and keep your Blood pressure and Cholesterol at healthy levels.
- Weight loss tips, including the latest research-backed strategies: Learn about smart ways to cut calories…easy “rule of thumb” tips for portion control…proven ways to keep weight off from 10,000 “successful losers”…and more—including medications and surgical options. PLUS: Discover how weight loss can even lead to remission of Type 2 diabetes!
- Healthy eating plans: Discover the pros and cons of low-fat and low-carb eating plans…how to easily adapt a Mediterranean diet to your liking…how to enjoy the benefits of vegetarian and vegan eating plans…and much more.
- Smart nutritional secrets: Find out about the clever secrets to help prevent blood sugar spikes…the truth about artificial sweeteners…plus “eat this, not that” food swaps to help you enjoy heart-healthy carbs, good fats, and better proteins.
- Meal-planning help: See how a revealing self-assessment survey can help personalize your approach to diabetes control. Also, discover simple nutritional guidelines…easy meal-planning strategies…why and how you should keep a food diary…and more.
- Dozens of luscious recipes that make healthy eating pure joy: You’ll love these easy-to-print recipes for lunch and dinner entrees…salads and side dishes…snacks and sauces…breakfast foods…and satisfying sweet desserts!
- ·Lifestyle strategies to help manage diabetes including easy ways to make healthy exercise a part of your life…how to quit smoking and help avoid diabetes complications…and how to enhance your sleep quality to help reduce insulin sensitivity.
- And more, including trustworthy websites and apps to help you lose weight…links to reputable organizations and books…and more to help you control your diabetes.
Linda M. Delahanty, MS, RDN, LDN
Linda M. Delahanty, MS, RDN, LDN, is Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Chief Dietitian and Director of Nutrition and Behavioral Research, Diabetes Center, at Massachusetts General Hospital.
The American Diabetes Association presented the Outstanding Educator in Diabetes Award to Delahanty in 2015. The award is presented to a distinguished health professional who has made outstanding educational efforts in the field of diabetes and has demonstrated significant contributions to the understanding of diabetes education.
Delahanty has served as Chair of the Dietitians Committee for the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT), and as co-Investigator on the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), the Action for Health in Diabetes (Look AHEAD), and the Treatment Options for Diabetes in Adolescents and Youth (TODAY) studies.
David M. Nathan, MD
David M. Nathan, MD, is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the Diabetes Center and Clinical Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Nathan's major research focus is the study and development of new methods to normalize glucose metabolism in diabetes mellitus and the long-term consequences of such therapy. He was one of the architects of the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial and co-chair of its long-term follow-up, the Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications Study.
Dr. Nathan is the chairman of the multi-center NIH Diabetes Prevention Program and the GRADE Comparative Effectiveness Study of Type 2 Diabetes. He has chaired the International Expert Committee on the diagnosis of diabetes and the International Consensus Committee on the treatment of type 2 diabetes.
Mallika Marshall, MD
Mallika Marshall, MD, is an Emmy-award winning journalist and physician who serves as the regular Health Reporter at WBZ-TV in Boston. A practicing physician who is Board Certified in both internal medicine and pediatrics, Marshall serves on staff at Harvard Medical School and practices at the Massachusetts General Hospital's (MGH) Chelsea Urgent Care Clinic and MGH Revere Health Center. Marshall is currently a Contributing Editor for Harvard Health Publications, the publishing division of Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Marshall also has served as the host of Dr. Mallika Marshall, a series of health news reports that was nationally syndicated and aired in more than 70 markets, including major cities such as San Francisco, Atlanta, St. Louis, Cleveland, and Houston. A cum laude graduate of Harvard College, Marshall received her medical degree with honors at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine. She completed her medical residency at Harvard in internal medicine and pediatrics.
