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Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven

Our Top Blood Sugar-Friendly Holiday Desserts

Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven

Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones

Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.92.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Are you hesitant about enjoying sweets during the holidays because you’re afraid of blood sugar fluctuations? In this episode, we share our favorite holiday desserts that are both delicious and diabetes-friendly. We explore a variety of dessert recipes for people managing diabetes, offering options that are lower in sugar and rich in flavor. From chocolate treats to fruity delights, we provide tips on how to enjoy your favorite sweets without strong spikes to your blood sugar. 

In This Episode We’ll Cover:

  • Delicious and diabetes-friendly holiday dessert recipes

  • Tips for reducing sugar in your favorite treats

  • How to enjoy sweets without spiking blood sugar

  • Practical advice for holiday baking and dessert planning

  • Creative ideas to make your holiday season sweet and healthy

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Transcript

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0:00.6

The holiday season is here.

0:04.3

Happy holidays, y'all.

0:06.0

If you haven't already, run that back and listen to our previous episode because we

0:12.6

covered overeating during the holidays, which is something that a lot of people struggle with.

0:17.5

And today, we are going to be talking about blood sugar-friendly holiday sweet.

0:24.6

Desserts are such an important part of the holidays. And if you're managing diabetes, you might

0:30.0

be hesitant to enjoy those sweets during this time of the year. So we're going to talk about

0:35.2

some of our favorite holiday recipe sweet that won't

0:39.5

cause big spikes in your blood sugar. And we're also going to talk about tips for reducing

0:44.0

sugar in your favorite holiday recipes and ways to indulge without the guilt. Welcome to the

0:50.1

Diabetes Digital Podcast. I'm Wendy and I I'm Jess, and we're best friends, registered

0:55.1

dietitians, and diabetes educators. Through our telehealth platform, DiabetesDiBesdigital.co,

1:00.5

we offer accessible and personalized virtual nutrition counseling for people with diabetes and

1:05.2

pre-diabetes. Visit Diabetesdigital.co, that's CO, to book your first appointment.

1:13.9

We accept insurance and offer affordable self-pay options.

1:15.8

Now, let's get into today's episode.

1:26.4

It can sometimes feel like there aren't that many options that are both delicious and diabetes-friendly, but that's not the case.

1:31.7

So today we're going to each share a couple of our favorite recipes that are blood sugar friendly and also somewhat holiday related.

1:36.2

And I will say that you don't even have to eat recipes

1:41.0

that are blood sugar friendly if you don't want to for the holidays.

1:43.5

Like we all can enjoy

1:46.6

whatever we want. We believe that all foods can fit into a balanced diet. And so if you're like,

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