"I especially want to draw your attention to my main Web page about diabetes, The Diabetes Directory. That URL is
http://www.mendosa.com/diabetes.htm
Once or twice a month from 1997 to 2003 I reviewed a diabetes-related Web site for the ADA in my column "About the Internet." Those columns are now on my site
at
http://www.mendosa.com/diabetes.htm#columns
One of the other pages on my site that is very popular is
a summary of information about the Glycemic Index (GI), which shows how
quickly different foods make glucose available, something of great importance to people with diabetes. The GI is a separate
link on my site at
http://www.mendosa.com/gi.htm
Are you interested in the closest thing yet to a miracle food for people with diabetes? If you are, you may want to check out my
http://www.mendosa.com/chana dal
page.
If you are trying to lose weight—something of great interest to many people with
type 2 diabetes—you may also want to study my
Satiety Index
page. The Satiety Index, along with the Glycemic Index, are two of the most exciting tools that we have to control our diabetes."
Log Sheet
A log sheet is an alternative or adjunct to software. There are a lot
of different log sheets out there, but the best, in my opinion, is one
developed by Jean-François Yale, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine,
Crabtree Nutrition Laboratories, McGill Nutrition and Food Science Centre,
Royal Victoria Hospital, and Director, Metabolic Day Centre. I met with him
in Montreal in August 2002, and at that time he authorized me to make his
log sheet available on my Web site. Dr. Yale's log sheet lets you enter
blood glucose readings, insulin dosages, carbohydrate grams, and exercise
(which you can put on a scale of 1 to 5) for any hour of the day. Before
printing the log sheets remember to change the page layout to landscape and
when you are finished to change it back to the usual portrait layout. Two
pages of the log sheet cover the seven days of the week. It is an Adobe
Acrobat PDF file, which requires the free Acrobat Reader, available at
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html, if you don't have it
already. Download the log sheet at
http://www.mendosa.com/logsheet.pdf.
