Diabetes is becoming an epidemic in this country, affecting millions of adults and children. Since diet is so critical in keeping the disease under control, some restaurants are providing menus especially for diabetics.
Heirloom beet salad, ahi tuna, homemade sorbets, A.P. Stumps in San Jose is offering these dishes as part of a new Diabetes Society restaurant campaign. The goal is to offer menu items that will help diabetics like Herb Proser manage their blood sugar.
"I think it's a darn good idea," Proser said. "There's so many diabetics around and they have troubles with the type of menus here that are too sugary or there are too many calories in it for what they need and this raises the blood sugar level too much."
"It's such a growing concern in today's society and especially in the youth," said A.P Stumps' general manager Pat McElroy. "Diabetes is a growing problem and more restaurants should take on the role of being conscious about the nutrition in items they do provide."
The restaurant is offering brown rice as well as vegetarian spring rolls and this seared white fish.
The Diabetes Society hopes the November campaign will inspire menu makeovers at other restaurants.
Registered dieticians worked on the menus to make sure they could be called diabetes friendly dishes.
The Diabetes Society estimates this program will reach 250,000 people during the month of November. Right now, the program isn't in Boston.
