Tools for Managing Diabetes

Diabetes Essentials™
Diabetes Essentials™ is a new line of supplements created by Nutrition 21, Inc. for people with type 2 diabetes. Four products provide advanced nutrition support in a convenient delivery method called Nutrition To Go, a sugar-free, low-calorie dissolvable powder in convenient single-serve packets that can be mixed in water to yield a beverage alternative to soft drinks and juice (without the sugar, salt, and added calories). The line includes Diachrome Blood Sugar Health capsules, Diachrome Blood Sugar Health Nutrition To Go, Multivitamin Nutrition To Go, and Heart Health Tablets. (www.DiabetesEssentials.com)

Glucerna
Abbott Nutrition has expanded its Glucerna line of nutrition products for people with diabetes. Glucerna products include cereal, shakes, snack shakes, meal bars, snack bars, and mini-snack bars. Glucerna shakes and bars recently won the ChefsBest Award for Best Taste against all leading competitors. Glucerna products are intended for use under medical supervision as part of a diabetes management plan. (www.glucerna.com)

CalorieKing
CalorieKing and Joslin Diabetes Center have joined forces to promote healthy food choices for diabetes prevention and management through the creation of food and physical activity awareness tools to help people with or at risk for type 2 diabetes. A new, free product is the CalorieKing Food Awareness Toolbar, created to promote daily food awareness, crucial to the prevention and management of diabetes. Search it as you might Google for food data. Click on your Internet Explorer or Firefox browser to download and install the food-search browser to your computer, then search for information about a food's content.
(www.CalorieKing.com)

Raw for 30 Days
A new documentary film about research concerning the use of raw food to combat diabetes follows six fast-food eating Americans with diabetes to go on a vegan, organic, live, raw diet for 30 days. Produced by Mark Perlmutter and filmed by Aiyana Elliott, Raw for 30 Days follows these patients who were supervised by Gabriel Cousens, MD, MD(H) and Helen Ross, MD at the Tree of Life in Patagonia, Arizona. The film is expected to be screened at film festivals next spring and subsequently released in theaters. A compendium DVD is also being produced about the program, which will include interviews with experts and raw food preparation demos by top chefs. (www.rawfor30days.com)