What is the criteria for deciding which diabetic diet to place someone on?
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It depends on the severity, the age of onset, and the type.  I assume you are asking about type II diabetes in an older person.  If the person is still producing sufficient insulin to control glucose when the diet is stabilized, then
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Since your life is shortened when you have diabetes, you should not aim for being a normal diabetic, you should aim to cure your disease, in other words, be normal in blood sugar.  Type 2 can be cured.  My dad did it with the Pritikin diet.  It is drastic, but the disease's consequences are severe.  Allowing it to continue is keeping drug companies and your doctor in pools of money.  Get angry and get cured.  If you're going to drop oranges because they're carbs, make sure you consume a variety of other fruits including tomatoes.  Until your blood sugar drops to normal levels, cut out those starches that are made without fiber like white rice, potatoes, white bread and batter-fried foods.  Who wants to be addicted to drugs for 40 years, and then die (or get crippled) early anyway?
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Glucose Fasting-70-110 mg/dL.(3.8-6.1 mmol/L)\nGlucose PP/R- Upto 160 mg/dL (8.8 mmol/L)\nYour second reading 1.32 does not appear correct.\nYou should also take HbA1c test every 3 or 4 months.\nEat a low-cholesterol, low-fat diet. This kind of diet includes cottage cheese, fat-free milk, fish (not canned in oil), vegetables, poultry, egg whites, and polyunsaturated oils and margarines (corn, safflower, canola, and soybean oils). Avoid foods with excess fat in them such as meat (especially liver and fatty meat), egg yolks, whole milk, cream, butter, shortening, lard, pastries, cakes, cookies, gravy, peanut butter, chocolate, olives, potato chips, coconut, cheese (other than cottage cheese), coconut oil, palm oil, and fried foods.\nPlease see the webpages for more details on Diabetes food.
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For type 2 you need diet and exercise. Follow the diabetic diet and walk for at least a half hour every day. If you are overweight, go on a diet
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Food Therapy should be followed under the supervision from your doctor. Check your sugar level frequently so that sugar levels do not go beyond the recommended level\n\nFoods to avoid\n\nIt is always advisable to avoid some foods if you are diabetic such as refined sugar, sweets, syrups, glucose, jam, molasses, fruit sugar, ice-cream, cakes, pastries, sweet biscuits, chocolates, soft drinks, condensed milk, cream and fried foods. Fats like butter, ghee and hydrogenated vegetable oil should also be avoided. White sugar and white flour should be reduced drastically. Avoid all processed foods, junk food, pastries, cookies, canned and preserved foods. They contain harmful preservatives and lot of salt. Avoid soft drinks since these have a lot of sugar. Try to avoid fried foods from your diet. Smoking results in the using up of oxygen in the body. It will result in less of oxygen needed by the body to metabolize glucose. So smoking should be avoided.\n\nFoods to be limited\n\nSalt consumption should be reduced to a minimum. You will get enough salt form the vegetables and fruits you eat. Reduce animal foods especially red meats. Reduce poultry and egg. Reduce caffeine and alcohol. Do not drink tea and coffee more than 2 cups a day. Try to replace it with green tea or herbal teas like Parsley tea, Blueberry leaf, Tea made of tender walnut tree leaves, Water in which kidney bean pods have been cooked is good diabetes.\n\nDo not consume alcohol in empty stomach. Alcohol on an empty stomach can cause low blood glucose or hypoglycemia.Foods that should be consumed in moderation are honey and other natural sugars like palm sugar, dates which can be used instead of white sugar. Remember these should be consumed in very little quantity only.Pasta, coconut, other nuts, unsweetened juices, eggs should be limited. You can replace it with whole grain, unpolished rice and Soya products. Try to eat whole grain bread instead of white flour. Fats like olive oil and peanut oil are more advisable that hydrogenated fats. Low fat food like skimmed milk and low fat home made cottage cheese can be taken in moderation. You can also substitute it with yoghurt. Sea food and fish also can be taken in moderation.\n\nFoods to be taken\n\nDrink at least 8 glasses of water a day. An alkaline diet with natural food is recommended. Wholegrain, fruits, nuts, vegetables, and dairy products form a good diet for the diabetic. Raw vegetables can be taken in high quantities. It has been found that cooked foods raise blood glucose higher than raw, unpeeled foods. Cooking destroys many of the enzymes and some vitamins and minerals.\n\nEat at least five fruits every day. Fruits like grape fruit, pomegranate juice, Indian blackberry, banana, granny smith apples, fig, cranberries, black berry, kiwi fruits, and citrus fruits are highly recommended. It can be taken as a snack. Cucumber, Lettuce, onion, garlic string beans cucumber radish, tomato, carrot, leaves; spinach turnip, cabbage and Jerusalem artichoke are good for diabetes. Colorful vegetables are good for the functioning of pancreas. Drink Fruit juices without sugar. Brewer’s yeast and sprouted alfalfa and mung beans are good for the body. Unripe banana also can be cooked and eaten.\n\nThe most important of all is eating high fiber diet which lowers need for insulin. It releases energy into the body slowly. It has also been found that diabetes decreases and may even disappear in people eating a high fiber or whole food diet. High fiber diet has more chromium and chromium is very good for people with diabetes. Eat lot of potassium rich foods like raw peanuts, tomato, bananas, melons, dried peas, potatoes, apple cider vinegar, skimmed milk powder, wheat but do not take potassium supplements.\n\nInclude soluble fiber in your meals like barley, oatmeal, almond meal, dried beans, kidney beans, cooked black beans, peas, cereals, chickpeas, Bengal gram which has low glycemic index, , Black gram, lentils and corn or garban
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the truth is everybody is different. u would have to experiment it for yourself. \nexample:\nmy son can not eat just a milk based product for a snack. his blood sugar will go low as if he didn't have anything for a snack at all.  other people with diabetes (such as his father) can have it for a snack and its ok their blood sugar is fine as if they had ate a granola bar or crackers.\nits weird but true, if my son wants ice cream for a snack then he has to eat another source of starch with it.\nremember that extreme HI's are always followed by extreme LOW's . this is true in people without diabetes also.
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your basically making yourself having type 2 diabetes. It's the same diet for people who are insulin resitant. I think it's gonna be bad just by the name. It'll might be good because it is very healthy. I don't know i'd try it.
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I AM ALSO A DIABETIC AND I HAVE FOUND SOMETHING THAT SAVED MY LIFE. "ONE TOUCH GOLD.COM" WILL ASK YOU A FEW QUESTIONS AND BASED ON YOUR ANSWERS WILL GIVE YOU A MEAL PLAN FOR EVERY DAY.  BY THE WAY IT IS ALL FREE! I VIEW MY WEEKLY MEAL PLAN - BREAKFAST,MORNING SNACK,LUNCH,AFTERNOON SNACK,DINNER AND EVENING SNACK. I PRINT OUT THE MENUS FOR THE WEEK. AND IF THAT WERE NOT ENOUGH,THEY WILL GIVE YOU A GROCERY LIST FOR THE WEEK!THEIR WEEK STARTS ON SUNDAY, SO, SATURDAY NIGHT I PRINT THE FOLLOWING WEEK MENUS AND GROCERY LIST AND GO TO THE STORE. THE FIRST WEEK IS KIND OF EXPENSIVE BUT AFTER THAT YOU MODIFY YOUR GROCERY LIST BECAUSE YOU ALREADY HAVE MOST OF THE STUFF! AND THE MENUS ARE DELICIOUS! GOOD LUCK. AT LEAST LOOK IT OVER.
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There are many sources to look at.\n\nProbably the most user-friendly is from the American Diabetes Association.\n\nEnjoy.
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Registered dietitians (RDs) have training and expertise in how the body uses food. RDs who understand diabetes can teach you how the food you eat changes your blood glucose level and how to coordinate your diabetes medications and eating.
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The Best Diabetic Diet...\n\nUntil only recently, experts thought that sugar was to diabetics what kryptonite was to Superman.  But the understanding of diabetes has progressed faster than a speeding bullet, and with that comes sweet news for people with the disease.\n\nIf you¹re a diabetic, it's OK to have a cookie for dessert or accept a slice of Aunt Mabel's fruitcake. In fact, according to the guidelines of the American Diabetes Association, which were first revised in 1994 and most recently in December 2001, you can eat just about anything you like.\n\nThere's a caveat, however: You need to pay attention to your diet as a whole and monitor your blood sugar level two hours after meals to see whether any individual food elevates it.\n\nStill, there is no longer any such thing as a "diabetic diet."
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I am currently in med school, and my limited experience has shown that you can eat whatever you can tolerate. At the very worst you may end up with some fatty stools or pain. whatever you can tolerate you can have. just make sure it doesn't hurt the Diabetes or BP :)
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One that you can stick with!  Also, regular exercise.  Every person is different so you just have to do what is right for you.  My husband likes Atkins, but that is just too much meat for my taste.
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check the glucose content in honey. My father had diabetes and he insisted that he could eat all the honey that he wasted but when I had gestational diabetes I was told that honey is only slightly healthier than sugar and should also be used with caution.\nTalk to your doctor.
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This will depend on several things but it sounds like you have been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes which can often be controlled by diet.\n\nThere are a few key guidelines:\n\nAvoid foods with processed sugar.\n\nHave a piece of fruit 3 times per day.  That actually did me in for sweets, after 3 months of that much fruit I got really tired of anything that tasted sweet!\n\nEat 5 small meals per day instead of 2 or 3 larger ones.  Don't skip breakfast.  Have a slightly early lunch.  Your 3rd meal would be a small mid afternoon snack (like an apple with a 2 or 3 ritz crackers).  Dinner can be very normal but eat small portions.  Plan ahead that your 5th meal is still coming so leave some room and don't eat all the way to feeling full.  The 5th meal should also be a light snack with fruit and a bread (like the afternoon meal) but should include some protein about an hour or so before you go to bed.  The protein is slower to digest and get its sugar into your system so it helps your blood sugar from getting too low during the night.  A little cheese or some milk is good.  Or just something left over in the fridge from dinner.\n\nThe temptation is to replace sugars with fats for flavor.  Try not to fall into that trap.  Fish is good if you like it.  Tuna salad with tomato paste instead of mayo is a sandwich I like for lunch.\n\nThere are some "free" foods.  These are basically things you can eat anytime during the day and they won't impact your blood sugar much.  Carrots (I hate those), pickles (get some without sugar if you can, I found kosher pickles usually have no sugar).\n\nIncrease the amount of vegetables you eat throughout the day.  They have fewer calories and the bulk can help you feel fuller.\n\nThere are some things I've learned to avoid.  Watermelon sky rockets my blood sugar, the sauce on take out pizza, rice.\n\nI fear I'm rambling now, but it's a great time to be diabetic (comparatively) because of so many choices in artificial sweetener (I think Splenda is best, except when they put it in special splenda diet drinks).  \n\nI hope that helps.  It's been 20 years since I started and then they discovered I was actually a slow starting Type 1 diabetic.  While I was on the good diet, I felt better than I ever had before.\n\nGood luck.\n\nI'm happy to answer other questions from my experience if you drop me a line.
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LOOK UP "DIABETIC DIET" IN YAHOO OR GOOGLE.  MOST DIABETICS NEED TO BE ON A LOW-CARB DIET.  YOU SHOULD FIND EVERYTHING U NEED ON ONE SITE.  HOPE THIS HELPS.
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http://www.healthcentral.com/diabetes/diet-000042_6-145.html\n\nhttp://adam.about.com/reports/000042_5.htm