The overall goals of nutrition interventions for the management of diabetes are:
- to maintain or improve quality of life
- to promote healthy growth and development through optimal nutrition
- to maintain or improve quality of life and nutritional and physiological health, and prevent and treat acute and long-term complications of diabetes, associated comorbid conditions and concomitant disorders (4).
Carbohydrate counting is one example of a self-management approach that can be used to