DIABETES sufferers are learning to manage their condition alongside their diet thanks to a new course available.
Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale Primary Care Trust has started a series of week-long education courses to help people with type 1 diabetes.
Diabetes nurse Molly Foster and dietician Sally Woolgar are in charge of the DAFNE (Dose adjustment for normal eating) courses.
Molly said: "Patients are taught to alter their insulin doses to fit in with their diet and have much greater flexibility in what they eat, hence the DAFNE slogan like what you eat, and eat what you like. We firmly believe that having diabetes need not be the end of the world, and we want to help patients to maintain good blood glucose control within the situations they encounter in everyday life."
Anyone who is interested is invited to attend an information session being held at the postgraduate centre, Scarborough Hospital, from 7pm to 8pm, on June 4. For more information phone Molly, on 01723 342274, or Sally, on 01723 342415.
Updated: 09:14 Thursday, May 22, 2003
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