Meeting Childrens Special Food and Nutrition Needs in Child Nutrition Programs Lesson 2: Helping Stu

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Meeting Childrens Special Food and Nutrition
Needs in Child Nutrition Programs Lesson 2
Helping Students with Diabetes
Learning Objectives

• Define diabetes and explain the difference
  between type 1 and type 2 diabetes
• Learn dietary treatments for diabetes
• Describe six accommodations that school food
  service can make for a student with diabetes

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Diabetes

• Diabetes the body cannot produce or use
  insulin
• Insulin a hormone that helps the body to use
  glucose as energy
• Type 1
• Type 2

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Dietary Considerations

• Grains and starches
• Protein
• Fat
• Meals and snacks

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Diabetic Meal Plans

• Food Guides

From ADA website http//www.diabetes.org/nutritio
n-and-recipes/nutrition/foodpyramid.jsp USDA
website http//mypyramid.gov/
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Diabetic Meal Plans

• Diabetic Exchanges
• Carbohydrate (includes starch, fruit, milk and
  vegetable), meat/meat alternate, fat
• Carbohydrate Counting
• Number of grams of
  carbohydrate in each meal
  (labels, lists)

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Food Service Assistants

• Plan on file at school
• Follow plan carefully
• Correct portion sizes are crucial
• Snacks
• Labels or computerized nutrient information
• Offer a variety of healthy choices for all
  students