Exchange Diet/Exchange Diet

It is a basis of a meal planning system designed by a committee of the American Diabetes Association .
Exchange Lists are based on principles of good nutrition .
food divided into six different groups .
REASON is foods vary in their carbohydrate, protein, fat, and calorie content.Each food choice on a list contains about the same amount of carbohydrate, protein, fat, and calories as the other choices on that list.
Below is the requirement of diabetic pt /day

Carbohydrate (grams)	Protein (grams)	Fat (grams)	Calories
I. Starch/Bread	15	3	trace	80
II. Meat
Very Lean	.	7	0-1	35
Lean	.	7	3	55
Medium-Fat	.	7	5	75
High-Fat	.	7	8	100
III. Vegetable	5	2	.	25
IV. Fruit	15	.	.	60
V. Milk
Skim	12	8	0-3	90
Low-fat	12	8	5	120
Whole	12	8	8	150
VI. Fat	.	.	5	45

history of diabetic diet

There has been long history of dietary treatment of diabetes mellitus .
dietary treatment of diabetes mellitus was used in Egypt as long ago as 3,500 B.C., It were used in India by Susrate and Charaka some 2,500 years ago.
John Rollo stated that calorie restriction in the diabetic diet could reduce glycosuria in diabetes in the eighteenth century.
Modern diabetic diet may begin with Frederick Madison Allen recommended that people with diabetes ate only a low-calorie diet to prevent ketoacidosis from killing them in era without insulin. This was an approach which did not actually cure diabetes.

The first use of insulin by Frederick Banting in 1922 changed all that, and at last allowed patients more flexibility in their eating.