Eating Healthy
The right meal plan, along with physical activity, can help you improve your blood sugar, blood pressure, and cholesterol numbers. It can also help you maintain a healthy weight.
Your healthcare provider may recommend a dietitian with whom you could speak about the right meal plan for you. It may take some time and a few compromises, but you can fit your favorite foods into your meal plan. Plus, everyone benefits from healthy eating, so the whole family can take part.
Some General Tips for Eating Healthy
Reducing your portion sizes by using a 9-inch plate (which is smaller than most) is one way to reduce the amount of food you eat.
Try to include:
- Lots of vegetables and fruits, and try picking from the rainbow of colors available to maximize variety
- Complex carbohydrates, such as whole-grain breads
- Fiber, found in fruits and veggies, whole grains, or beans
- Lean protein, such as fish, white turkey, skinless chicken, tofu, beans, and nonfat dairy products
- A limited amount of heart-healthy fats, found in nuts like almonds or walnuts, or olive, peanut, or canola oil and certain fish (salmon, mackerel, herring)
Consider choosing:
- Non-starchy vegetables such as spinach, peppers, broccoli, or green beans
- Skinless poultry and lean meats, like cuts of beef and pork that end in "loin" (pork loin, sirloin)
- Nonfat dairy such as skim milk, nonfat yogurt, and nonfat cheese
- Whole-grain foods over processed grain products, like brown rice with your stir-fry or whole-wheat spaghetti with your favorite low-fat pasta sauce
- Water and calorie-free "diet" drinks instead of regular soda, fruit punch, sweet tea, and other sugar-sweetened drinks
- Liquid oils for cooking instead of solid fats
Remember, making healthy food choices is truly a key to improving your overall health, while helping to control your diabetes.
You can enroll in the BYDUREON Steady Support Program to receive ongoing tips and information about managing type 2 diabetes.
WHAT IS BYDUREON® (exenatide extended-release for injectable suspension)?
BYDUREON is an injectable prescription medicine that may improve blood sugar (glucose) in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus, and should be used along with diet and exercise. BYDUREON is not recommended as the first medication to treat diabetes.
BYDUREON is a long-acting form of the medication in BYETTA® (exenatide) injection so both drugs should not be used together. BYDUREON is not a substitute for insulin and has not been studied in combination with insulin. BYDUREON is not for people with type 1 diabetes or people with diabetic ketoacidosis (a condition caused by very high blood sugar). BYDUREON is not recommended for use in children. It is not known if BYDUREON is safe and effective in people with a history of pancreatitis or severe kidney problems.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION for BYDUREON
- POSSIBLE THYROID TUMORS, INCLUDING CANCER: In animal studies, BYDUREON caused rats to develop tumors of the thyroid gland. Some of these tumors were cancer. It is not known if BYDUREON causes thyroid tumors or a type of thyroid cancer called medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) in people. Do not take BYDUREON if you or any of your family members have MTC or if you have Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia syndrome type 2. While taking BYDUREON, tell your healthcare provider if you get a lump or swelling in your neck, hoarseness, trouble swallowing, or shortness of breath. These may be symptoms of thyroid cancer.
- Do not take BYDUREON if you have had an allergic reaction to exenatide or any of the other ingredients in BYDUREON. Severe allergic reactions can happen with BYDUREON. Symptoms of a severe allergic reaction to BYDUREON are severe rash or itching, swelling of your face, lips, and throat that may cause difficulty breathing or swallowing, feeling faint or dizzy and very rapid heartbeat. If you have any symptoms of a severe allergic reaction, stop taking BYDUREON and call your healthcare provider right away.
- Inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis) may happen, which may be severe and lead to death. Before taking BYDUREON, tell your healthcare provider if you have had pancreatitis, stones in your gallbladder (gallstones), a history of alcoholism, or high blood triglyceride levels. Stop taking BYDUREON and call your healthcare provider right away if you have pain in your stomach area (abdomen) that is severe and will not go away, occurs with or without vomiting, or is felt going from your stomach area through to your back. These may be symptoms of pancreatitis.
- Your risk for getting low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) is higher if you take BYDUREON with another medicine that can cause low blood sugar, such as a sulfonylurea. The dose of your sulfonylurea may need to be lowered while you use BYDUREON. Signs and symptoms of low blood sugar may include shakiness, headache, drowsiness, weakness, dizziness, confusion, irritability, hunger, fast heartbeat, sweating, and feeling jittery.
- Tell your healthcare provider if you have or had kidney problems or a kidney transplant. BYDUREON may cause nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea, leading to loss of fluids (dehydration). Dehydration may cause kidney failure; this can happen in people who have never had kidney problems before. Call your healthcare provider right away if you have nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea that will not go away or if you cannot drink liquids.
- Tell your healthcare provider if you have severe problems with your stomach, such as delayed emptying of your stomach (gastroparesis) or problems with digesting food.
- The most common side effects with BYDUREON include nausea, diarrhea, headache, vomiting, constipation, itching at injection site, a small bump (nodule) at the injection site, and indigestion. Nausea most commonly happens when first starting BYDUREON, but may become less over time.
- Before using BYDUREON, tell your doctor about all the medicines you take, as taking them with BYDUREON may affect how each medicine works. Tell your healthcare provider if you take other diabetes medicines, especially insulin or a sulfonylurea, or warfarin sodium (Coumadin® or Jantoven®).
- Tell your healthcare provider if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. It is not known if BYDUREON will harm your unborn baby. Talk to your healthcare provider first if you are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed.
You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
Please click here for Medication Guide, and click here for US Full Prescribing Information for BYDUREON, including Boxed WARNING about possible thyroid tumors including thyroid cancer.
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The Steady Support Program mark and design mark and BYDUREON SteadySTART are service marks of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, LLC and AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP.
All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
This site is intended for US residents ages 18 and over.
Patent Nos. 5,424,286, 6,858,576, 6,872,700, 6,956,026, 7,456,254, 6,479,065, 6,495,164, 6,667,061, 6,824,822, 7,223,440, 7,563,871, and 7,612,176.