Optimizing diet for diabetes during pregnancy, part 2: Next steps | Ohio State Medical Center 

In our last video, we discussed the basics of diet for gestational diabetes.
Part 1: • Optimizing diet for di...
Lori Chong, RDN, LD, CDE, a dietitian nutritionist at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, leads this video for women with gestational diabetes or women who have diabetes and are now pregnant.
We'll now go into more detail on food choices. Pregnancy is a critical time for blood sugar control and diet plays a major role in helping to manage blood sugar. Since carbohydrates have the largest and quickest effect on blood sugar, our first video in this series explained how to count carbs. Today, we're going to focus on carb quality, fat and sugar - including how to handle sugar free foods and sugar alcohols. We will also talk about the plate method and eating in restaurants.
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