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The Nutrition Place Mat for Diabetes Education Kit
for Diabetes & Health Educators
Click for what's included in each kit.
English available (Spanish in revision).
Here is an effective,
easy-to-use tool for teaching diabetes patients how to apply a nutritional plan in their meal-by-meal or daily diet. The Diabetes Place Mat is a sturdy, heavily laminated,
11" by 17" place mat that can be used over and over. The Kit includes many, many copy-ready handouts including 4
sample meal plans -- one each for 2250, 1800, 1500, and 1250 calories per day plus a blank
plan for you to fill in custom plans as needed for some patients.
Here's how it works:
One side of the Diabetes Place Mat lists food choices and individual portion sizes for each food category on the individualized
meal plan you're giving your patient. This list replaces traditional paper lists, which are easily damaged or lost.
Carbohydrate categories - starch and bread, fruit, milk and other carbohydrates - which affect blood sugar and which can be exchanged for
each other, are color coded in yellow for easy identification and proper selection. Other food categories - vegetables, meat, fat and free foods - are individually color-coded.
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When showing your patient how to plan a meal or snack, use the dry-erase marker provided in the kit to write the meal plan targets in the space below the food pictures. Then show the patient how to plan their meal by circling or tallying the food items on the list according to the meal plan targets. When you're finished illustrating a meal plan, simply use a dry cloth or tissue to erase the Diabetes Place Mat - then it's ready for the next example or teaching session.
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The Diabetes Place Mat is an even more effective tool when your diabetes patients have Place Mats of their own to use at
home.
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The other side of the Diabetes Place Mat illustrates the "Plate
Method" of managing a diet
for proper nutrition and control of blood sugar and weight. It can be used for teaching the "Plate Method" to patients using plastic food representing choices and serving sizes appropriate for a healthy, balanced diet.
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The food groups shown on the top half of the
Plate Method side are carbohydrates, which affect blood sugar - fruit, milk, and starch & bread. These are colored in yellow to distinguish them from the other food groups that don't significantly affect blood sugar (meat, vegetables, fat and free foods). The food categories are shown in proportion to how much of each might be eaten in a healthy, balanced diet.
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The Diabetes Place Mat can also be used as a return demonstration tool to assess your patient's knowledge of meal planning.
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If your patients have their own Diabetes Place Mat at home, encourage them to keep it handy on their table top or refrigerator between meals and snacks as a constant reminder to stay on their prescribed meal plan.
To sum up… The Nutrition Place Mat for Diabetes Works!
- It’s easy to use – the large 11"
by 17" size can accommodate all vital information on one page
- It’s durable – heavily laminated to last
- It’s reusable – wipes clean easily so it’s ready for the next use
- It’s visible – making it a constant reminder to stay on the plan
The Nutrition Place Mat for Diabetes
Education Kit is available in these versions:
English Version - DME-Ed Kit
- Write-On/Wipe-Off Diabetes Place
Mat Here's a terrific, easy-to-use
tool for showing your patients how
to apply balanced nutrition in their
meal-by-meal or daily diet! Why? Because this
laminated 11" by 17" mat is not
only durable and reusable, its
eye-catching color-coded foods list also
helps patients remember what you're
teaching them.
- Dry Erase Marker For use on the
Diabetes Place Mat to check off portions
for each meal or snack.
- Calculated Meal Plans One each
of commonly prescribed daily
diets of 1250, 1500, 1800, and 2250
calories, plus a blank template for
customized meal plans.
- Instruction Guide For correct
use of the Diabetes Place Mat.
- 1 Set of Copy-ready Handouts Includes: the
Nutrition Information Guide,Meal
Planning Practice Sheets, Monthly Tally sheet, and
4 new diabetes management forms
(two-sided Diabetes Management Record Form, Your Diabetes Management Plan,
Diabetes Education Visit Summary.)
- Copy-ready Carbohydrate Conversion
Work Sheet The "hidden
gem" of the kit! Makes it easy for
patients to convert carbohydrate
information on packaged food labels into
portion sizes used in your meal plan.
Spanish Version - DMS-Ed Kit
Updated version is currently under construction! This Education Kit is available in the 2001
version of the Food List for Diabetes.
Poster Size for Classroom Instruction - English available
- just circle on order form under "Special Order Posters",
Includes two 2 ft. by 2 1/2 ft. laminated posters, one for each side of
the Diabetes Place Mat.
Laminated Diabetes Place Mats - DME-singles
Available separately (without materials or
marker) in both English and Spanish versions for use by
patients during classroom or individual instruction. |
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