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Food is the greatest challenge for people with diabetes. It's a dailystruggle to closely monitor food intake in order to control blood sugar.dLife's Food Look-Up lets users search the massive 25,000-plus food databaseby ingredient, prepared meals, and even popular fast food items. With just aclick, one gets a food's detailed nutrition breakdown of carbohydrates,calories, sodium, protein, sugars, fats, cholesterol, vitamins, minerals, andmore.
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"dLife's Food Look-Up is what patients and their educators have beenyearning for! It's a common complaint that counting carbohydrates andunderstanding nutritional analysis is quite confusing. This is really a quickand easy tool to help anyone manage their diabetes and for an overall healthylifestyle," said Donna Rice, MBA, R.N, CDE, and the past president of theAmerican Association of Diabetes Educators. "This is a breakthrough to makeit both easy and convenient for people with diabetes and their caregivers totrack and manage what they just ate, or to plan ahead for daily meals."
"dLife's Food Look-Up is not only for people with diabetes -- it's themost thorough resource for health-oriented people interested in gaining abetter understanding of exactly what they are eating every day," added Rice.
In addition to the Food Look-Up, dLife has redesigned its search engine of10,000 diabetic recipes at dLife.com, including a special recipe customizationtool that allows for instant re-calculation of ingredients based on servingamounts, plus expanded recipe category search capabilities, including LowCarb, Very Low Carb, Low Calorie, and Low Saturated Fat options. Visithttp://www.dlife.com and click on recipes to get started.
About dLife
dLife is the only multimedia network serving the diabetes community. Itsaward-winning media outlets include dLifeTV, the only lifestyle TV series forpeople with diabetes, airing every Sunday on CNBC at 7:00PM ET and 4:00PM PT.With 10,000 diabetic recipes, over 300 videos, and 20,000 pages of superiorcontent, dLife.com is the leading online destination for diabetes information,inspiration, and connection. The dLife network also includes dLifeRadio,featuring the dLife Diabetes Minute, heard on stations around the country andon XM Satellite Radio; dLifeDirect, the only diabetes cooperative, direct-mailprogram; professional programs; and more.CONTACT: Sue Ennis dLife (203) 221-3446 [email protected]
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