title: [Diet guidelines for non-insulin dependent diabetes].
abstract: Diet therapy is an essential instrument in the prevention and treatment of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and its complications. Nutritional advice allow to modify the mechanisms underlying deranged carbohydrate metabolism, control disease evolution and/or retard pharmacological treatment. We describe the main dietetic factors that can influence this widespread metabolic disorder.
authors.affiliation: Centro di Ricerche in Nutrizione Umana, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, A. Gemelli, Roma, Italia.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Miggiano
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Guerrera
mesh_terms: D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000178:diet therapy*; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic