Steps To Delicious Dining With Diabetes

Steps To Delicious Dining With Diabetes (based on Dining with Diabetes, a West Virginia Extension curriculum) is a program shared with people with diabetes and their families in an effort to help reduce the burden of diabetes by offering a theory-based program that can provide them with the tools for self-management of this chronic disease.  The results will be less medication, increased physical fitness, more control in managing their life style with diabetes.  

The goals of Steps To Delicious Dining With Diabetes include: • Increasing knowledge of healthy food choices for families with diabetes or other chronic diseases. • Presenting healthy versions of familiar foods that are easy and quick to prepare, inexpensive, and tasty. • Demonstrating cooking techniques that use more healthful ingredients. • Promoting behavior changes by offering demonstrations and tasting of healthy foods. • Promoting physical activity as a component of diabetes control. • Encouraging self-management and self-efficacy skills. • Providing opportunities for participants to share and learn from one another. • Providing basic diabetes education in partnership with the Extension Service and local diabetes health care partners.