ABSTRACT
Nutrition is commonly regarded as the cornerstone of treatment of childhood diabetes mellitus (DM) (1,2). However, due to a paucity of data on dietary intake and metabolic status among youth with either type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) or type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), current American Diabetes Association (ADA) nutrition recommendations for youth with diabetes are based primarily on expert consensus based almost entirely on studies of adults with diabetes and on studies of healthy children, incorporating recommendations from government or other professional organizations (1). Current recommendations have been distilled and are presented in Table 1 reprinted from Mayer-Davis, 2006 (3).
