✨Charting a Brighter 2024: A Holiday Reading List for Improved Blood Sugar Control and Improved Health Outcomes in Type 1 diabetes 📚

As the holiday season unfolds, offering a pause in our bustling lives, I have created a reading list, crafted to guide parents of children with Type 1 diabetes toward a journey of understanding, improved outcomes, and reduced stress.

As we approach 2024, I would like for parents to feel empowered and gain the necessary knowledge and insights to make Type 1 diabetes more manageable, gain greater clarity, feel more in control, and start 2024 on the right foot.

1️⃣ Are Carbs Essential?

As a parent of a child with Type 1 diabetes, you might have been told that carbohydrates are an essential component of your child’s diet, necessary for human survival. It’s what many of us are told. Carbs are essential. Kids need carbs to grow!

In the below post & video, we will challenge the conventional wisdom – does the literature and what we know about physiology support the widely held view that carbs are essential for humans?

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Blog: https://www.t1dnutrition.com/blog/are-carbs-essential

2️⃣ The Goal of T1D Management

Gain clarity and understand what the goal of Type 1 diabetes management is. Delve into the significance of optimal glycemic control, understanding its important impact on your child's well-being and future health outcomes.

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Blog: https://www.t1dnutrition.com/blog/Goal-of-T1D-Management

3️⃣ What are Normal Blood Sugar Levels?

Learn what normal, non-diabetic blood sugar values are and why the body constantly regulates glucose to maintain it in a very tight range.

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Blog: https://www.t1dnutrition.com/blog/normal-blood-glucose-values

4️⃣ Clinical Targets and Type 1 diabetes

Uncover why, if the body aims to maintain normal blood sugar levels in a tight range for optimal health, clinical targets set by various diabetes associations are higher for those diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.

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Blog: https://www.t1dnutrition.com/blog/hypoglycemia-clinical-targets-type-1-diabetes

5️⃣ Why Type 1 diabetes requires a Therapeutic Carbohydrate Reduction/Low-Carb Nutrition Strategy

Dive into why the successful management of Type 1 diabetes requires a Therapeutic Carbohydrate Reduction/Low-carb nutrition strategy. Explore how adopting a low-carb nutrition plan safely achieves normal blood sugar levels, alleviates stress, anxiety, and improves overall diabetes outcomes. Embrace this path toward a brighter, healthier future for your child.

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Blog: https://www.t1dnutrition.com/blog/Low-carb-Type-1-diabetes-when-why

This holiday, I hope the above reading list helps you on your journey to improving your child’s Type 1 diabetes management, overall quality of life, while reducing the burden, allowing your family to enjoy more quality time in 2024! Happy reading! 📚✨

🎯 If you are interested in improving your child's Type 1 diabetes management in 2024 and successfully implementing a Therapeutic Carbohydrate Reduction/Low-carb nutrition strategy, so you can safely achieve normal blood sugar levels, and nourish your child's growing body, please don't hesitate to:

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P.S. here are a few photos of our post-Christmas low-carb meals.

Boxing Day, Dec 26
Breakfast: bacon, veggie, cheese quiche

Dinner: Turkey and veggie soup, grilled cheese sandwiches.

I made a bone broth using the turkey bones from Christmas dinner. Sauteed veggies and leftover turkey. Grilled cheese sandwiches used the Rustic Faux-Wheat Bread (recipe below).

Dec 27
Breakfast: French Toast!

We had leftover Rustic Faux-Wheat Bread remaining which we used for our Christmas dinner stuffing. Two eggs, a few drops of Stevia sweetener, butter, and a dash of cinnamon!

Use your favourite low-carb syrup!

Rustic Faux-Wheat Bread: https://happyhealthythriving.blogspot.com/2017/10/rustic-faux-wheat-bread.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR236X3nHdTMo6qs2xbvbDHChVh_fWGmDfwscktm4_RD-GEQH7RcBEq-HXQ

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