Exercise
What are some light exercises you can do?
Taking walks or swimming in a local pool are good light exercises.
What food groups should you eat? What should you avoid?
You should eat fruits, non-starchy vegetables, grains, and proteins. You should avoid dairy and starchy vegetables.
What does a food scale do?
It watches your serving size and plans your food.
Where is Insulin produced?
Insulin is produced in the Pancreas.
Where is type 2 Diabetes usually found?
Why is it important you exercise on a daily basis?
It is important to maintain a healthy diet.
What types should you avoid at a restaurant?
Stay away from breads, sodas, and pastas.
What do you call something that plans your physical activity?
You call it a pedometer.
What is used to bring Glucose out of the cell.
Insulin is used to bring Glucose out of the cell.
When was our interviewee diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes?
He was diagnosed in May of 2001.
How often should you exercise?
You should exercise on a daily basis.
What types of vegetables should they avoid?
Starchy vegetables such as potatoes, corn, and green beans.
A food plate _________.
A food plate reminds you to eat a nutritious diet and a variety of healthy foods.
What is a second way to get type 2 Diabetes?
If your body develops insulin resistance, you will get type 2 Diabetes.
What medicines do our interviewee take?
They take two different pills and an insulin shot every week.
What are some complications for not exercising if you have Diabetes?
Nerve pain and kidney disease are two complications of diabetes.
Why do people living with type 2 Diabetes have to diet?
The bodies insulin is inefficient resulting in high blood sugar.
MyFitnessPal adds up the calories that you ate in one day in order to _____.
MyFitnessPal adds up the calories that you ate in one day in order to maintain your goal and keep your Diabetes in check.
What is hyperglycemia?
Hyperglycemia is whenever blood sugar gets higher.
What does a dietitian do?
A dietitian can assist a person with type two diabetes by evaluating that person’s nutritional needs and creating a nutrition treatment plan for that person.
Why should you exercise?
You exercise to control your blood-glucose level which is essential to preventing long-term complications.
How do people develop type 2 Diabetes?
Over the course of their life, their diet choices have been poor.
What can you see on each recipe in Big Oven?
You can see nutrition labels on every recipe in Big Oven.
Whenever Insulin resistance occurs, cells begin to resist insulin. Where are the cells located that this occurs?
Cells in your muscles, body fat, and liver start resisting Insulin.
What was a food that we used for our recipes?
Apple butter french toast, Philly cheese lettuce wrap, and a pizza were the three foods we used in our recipes.