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Nutritional management
Main nutritional recommendations
These are based on adult recommendations. Children <5 years require a more energy-dense diet; children >5 years should be encouraged to adopt adult nutritional guidelines
Recommendations
- Distribution of food energy and carbohydrate intake to balance
insulin action profiles and exercise (and adjustment of insulin
doses to varying food patterns)
- Total energy needs to be sufficient for growth but to avoid
obesity
- Total daily energy intake should be distributed approximately as
follows
- Carbohydrate >50%
- encourage complex unrefined higher fiber carbohydrate
- moderate sucrose intake
- Fat 30–35%
- less than 10% saturated fat
- less than 10% polyunsaturated fat
- more than 10% monounsaturated fat
- Protein 10–15%
- Fruit and vegetables (five items per day are recommended)
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Food guide pyramid
- The pyramid displays diet recommendations in a diagrammatic form (Figure 3)
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