Making it easier to choose a 'healthy lifestyle'

You know that living with diabetes can be a daily challenge. Apart from taking medication, it’s important to maintain a healthy lifestyle that combines a sensible and varied diet with regular exercise.

Whether you’re looking after your own health or supporting a loved one, it can all require quite a lot of time, careful thought and pre-planning.

At LifeScan we understand those challenges. That’s why, as well as supplying blood glucose meters to thousands of customers across the UK , we’re always looking for ways to help make things a little easier.

For instance, maintaining a healthy diet doesn’t have to mean missing out on great-tasting food. Now LifeScan have teamed up with Splenda® Low Calorie Sweetener and Benecol® Cholesterol reducing foods - bringing you some exciting offers that put a little more choice on your plate.

A few small changes can make a big difference

Even if you’re already reducing your sugar intake, you can still satisfy occasional cravings with sweet alternatives that contain less calories and carbohydrate than sugar based recipes.

Splenda^® contains sucralose, a sweetening ingredient which like other low calorie sweeteners, is not recognised by the body as a carbohydrate, so is not broken down and because Splenda^® has an insignificant effect on blood glucose levels it’s also suitable for people with diabetes as part of a healthy diet and lifestyle. Available in granulated or tablet form, Splenda ^® can easily be substituted for sugar in drinks, sprinkled on food or used in cooking and baking.

Now, with Antony Worrall Thompson’s latest recipe book, The Sweet Life – full of indulgent recipes with less sugar – you’ve got more opportunities to satisfy your sweet tooth.

It’s also important to keep your cholesterol under control to keep your heart in good shape. With a delicious range of foods that contain a unique ingredient called ‘Plant Stanol Ester’, Benecol^® is clinically proven to reduce ‘bad’ (LDL) cholesterol when used as part of a healthy diet and lifestyle**.

Try using either one Benecol^® mini drink, or two to three servings of Benecol^® spreads, yogurts or cream cheese-style spread each day. You should see positive results within two to three weeks.