Eating Well with Diabetes, Chapter 1: A Simple Way to Think About Food

Welcome to Eating Well with Diabetes

Learn who this course is for, what it covers, and how to move through it.

You can describe what this course offers and who it is for.

This course is for adults with diabetes or prediabetes. It is also for the family, partners and caregivers who help them.

Prediabetes means blood sugar runs higher than normal. It is not yet at diabetes levels.

You need no special background. Each lesson starts from the basics.

Food is one of several daily choices that affect blood sugar over time. Activity, sleep, stress, what you drink and your medicines also play a part.

Blood sugar goes up and down through the day. Patterns over many meals and days are more useful than one moment.

Each lesson builds on the one before it. Going in order works best.

Each idea rests on the ones before it, like steps on a staircase. Skipping ahead can leave gaps that make later lessons harder to follow.

If something feels unclear, go back one lesson before moving on.

Key takeaways

  • This course is for adults with diabetes or prediabetes and the people who support them.
  • Food is one of several daily choices that affect blood sugar over time.
  • Go through the lessons in order, and your care team sets your personal goals, which this course supports.

Try it

Tell one person in your life who this course is for and what it covers.

Next lesson: Why Food Matters Every Day