EDUCATING CHILDREN ON HEALTHY FOODS-TRIP TO SUPERMARKET

Nov 12, 2020Friends Forever

EDUCATING CHILDREN ON HEALTHY FOODS-TRIP TO SUPERMARKET

 

The Friends Forever children are taken for Supermarket trips to teach them to study nutrition labels and understand the importance of glycemic value of foods. The children are taken along with their parents, reading and understanding of food labels are explained for various foods. This educates both the parents and the children on the value of nutrition, glycemic index, glycemic load, carb counting, insulin dosage and maintaining a euglycemic stage. The parents are also alerted about the signs and symptoms of a hypoglycemic event and a DKA event. Facts on Diabetes, ketoacidosis and, hypoglycemia are taught through examples to the group through peer support.

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