The diet in diabetes mellitus

Conclusion

Most diabetic patients require a quantitative diet, but this need not be greatly different from that which normal persons eat. Highly concentrated carbohydrate foods are inadvisable, because a slight error in amount may make a great difference in caloric content of the diet and because these may replace foods richer in vitamins and minerals. The use of a few standard diet forms, with inherent flexibility to allow adequate choice of individual foods, makes diet prescribing simple for most physicians. Actual examples of 4 such diets in practical use are presented in the addendum to this article.