The goals of nutritional therapy for diabetes are to prevent and treat complications such as
cardiovascular disease, hypertension, nephropathy, obesity and dyslipidemia, and include
achieving and maintaining safe or normal blood glucose levels, a normal lipoprotein profile,
and an improvement of health through a change of food choices and increased physical
activity. A healthy and balanced diet should provide enough calories for daily energy
requirements, in order to reduce and/or maintain an acceptable body weight.
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