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The Traffic Light Diet

The Traffic Light Diet is a simple diet plan that may help adult diabetics as well as children get started on the road to healthy eating. While called a diet it is really a lifestyle plan. It is easy to follow which means long term compliance in any situation. This may be a perfect educational starter to teach newly diagnosed diabetics healthy choices.

The Traffic Light Diet or Stop Light Diet was developed by Leonard H. Epstein and colleagues for use in their family-based childhood overweight research. It has been since copied (as noted in Battling Books!).

  • GREEN for go. Choose as many of the GREEN foods for your meal plan
  • YELLOW – Caution. Eat limited amounts of the YELLOW foods.
  • RED - Stop. Eat very small amounts of the RED foods or only on occasion.
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