Diabetes is one of today's most devastating diseases and is increasing at an alarming rate. Uncontrolled, diabetes leads to serious complications including heart disease, kidney failure, blindness, and neuropathy. The good news is that diabetes can be treated with proper diet, exercise, and when necessary, medicine. Early diagnosis and constant attention to maintaining blood sugar levels are essential to minimizing the ravages of this deadly disease.

The proper diet for managing diabetes maintains good blood glucose control while it provides good nutrition. The diabetic foods diet should also help maintain healthy levels of blood cholesterol and lipids since people with diabetes are at a high risk of cardiovascular disease. Since many people with Type 2 diabetes (usually adult onset) are overweight, total calorie intake is important. Because everyone's medical condition is different, there is no standard diet for people with diabetes. Rather, each individual must carefully select foods to match the type and amount of carbohydrate (starches and sugars), protein, fat and calories recommended by their health care provider.

Today, many foods are available to meet the dietary needs of people with diabetes, but unfortunately, the trend in supermarkets today is to limit specialty sections that feature these items in favor of items that appeal to a much broader audience. The goal of the Sugar Free Diabetic Food Pantry is to search, find, and make available to people with diabetes as many products as we can, which meet a diabetic's special food needs. If you know of products that you would like us to include in our offering, please let us know. We will be glad to add them. You can order these products directly here on our Web site, or call us toll-free at 1-800-238-8090 to place an order or request a brochure.

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