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December 2005
Healthy Holiday EatingTips and tools to make this holiday a healthy oneHoliday meals and sweets cook up big challenges for people with diabetes (and everyone else, too). The good news: With planning, you can face those challenges head on. Dietitian Janet Zusi offers these holiday strategies to help you get through the holidays in good health.Consider sucralose (Splenda). If you’d like to enjoy sweet treats over the holidays, consider making them with sucralose. Made from sugar, sucralose is a low calorie sweetener that tastes like sugar and is 600 times sweeter. And unlike must sugar substitutes, you can use sucralose as a tabletop sweetener and in baking. So consider making your traditional holiday goodies with this sweetener, then enjoying them in moderation. Savor other sweets. Cookies and pies aren’t the only sweets of the season. Give in to your sweet tooth by enjoying sweet seasonal fruit such as apples and citrus. Fruit not only contains health-boosting nutrients and fiber, but gives you the sweet taste you crave. Control what you can. When you go to a party or share a meal at someone’s home, bring something you - everyone else - can enjoy. Vegetable crudité, pasta primavera, salads and vegetarian chili are smart choices. Load your plate with a variety of veggies to help you stay in control. Forget the “diabetic diet.” Just because you have diabetes doesn’t mean you should be eating a special diet. “In fact, you should be eating the same high-fiber, low-fat food as everyone else,” Zusi says. (And if a food has 5 or more grams of fiber per serving, you can deduct those grams from the food’s total carb count.) Prioritize. You still have just 24 hours in a day, even during the holidays, yet there are so many more things to do. “Make a list of what’s most important, and do those things first,” Zusi says. “Make eating right and exercising a priority for every day.” This page last updated 2/12/08 04:08 PM
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