At Equal, we're committed to providing resources and
support to health care providers, educators and their
patients living with diabetes. We hope you'll find these
tools helpful in educating and improving the lives of your
patients.
Tools For You and Your Patients
- Carbohydrate Counting for Better Health
Educational resource that discusses the importance and health benefits of carbohydrate counting. The tool provides tips and information on how to count carbohydrates using a food label and how to count carbohydrates for foods without a food label.
- Carbohydrate Counting Pocket Guide - Expanded
Easy-to-use reference guide lists the average amounts of carbohydrate and calories in many popular foods. A “handy” measuring tip guide helps estimate appropriate serving sizes for accurate carbohydrate counting.
- Carbohydrate Counting Teaching Aid (Ready, Set, Start Counting)
Comprehensive meal planning information and carbohydrate counting worksheet to help patients understand how food choices affect blood glucose levels. Written by the Diabetes Care and Education Dietetic Practice Group of the American Dietetic Association through a grant from Merisant, makers of Equal sweetener.
- Aspartame Weight Control Study
Summary of a long-term clinical study in which aspartame, the sweetening ingredient in Equal, was shown to help obese patients reduce their weight and better maintain their weight reduction over 3+ years. The study was conducted by researchers at Harvard Medical School and other facilities. Click here to access the study abstract on the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition website.
- Carbohydrate Counting Pocket Guide
Easy-to-use reference chart shows the average amount of carbohydrate, protein, and fat in everyday foods.
- Weight Loss Teaching Aid
Educational resource you can use with your patients with diabetes to discuss the importance and health benefits of losing weight. Includes exercising and healthy eating tips for losing and maintaining weight.
- Easy Everyday Logbook
Logbook for your patients includes a daily food journal that is helpful for eating right to manage diabetes and lose weight. This resource will also help your patients keep accurate records on blood glucose levels, exercise regimens, medications and much more. l.
- Daily Journal for Easy Everyday Logbook
Click here to print out a single page of the daily journal from the Easy Everyday Logbook.
- Portion Control Bookmark
Portion control guide uses "handy" measuring tips to estimate appropriate portions.
- Equal Eating Healthy Placemat
Colorful guide demonstrates the Plate Method for meal planning and provides helpful information on understanding the Nutrition Facts Label and Diabetes Food Pyramid.
- Equal Recipe Fact Sheet
Provides helpful hints for using Equal in recipes. Includes Equal conversion chart.
- Skinny on Sweeteners Fact Sheet
Fact sheet provides answers to the most commonly asked questions on the three major sugar substitutes: aspartame, sucralose and saccharin.
- Aspartame Fact Sheet
Answers frequently asked questions about aspartame safety. Fact sheet is sponsored by the Calorie Control Council and reviewed by the American Dietetic Association's Fact Sheet Review Board.
- Aspartame Reference Sheet
Facts about the safety of aspartame from leading health organizations.
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