Impact of nutrition counselling regarding stevia on non-insulin dependent diabetics
2009
Agarwal, Vyoma | Kochhar, Anita | Sangha, Jaswinder
Fifty Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetic subjects, 25 males and 25 females were selected from posh areas of Ludhiana city to study the impact of nutrition counseling regarding Stevia ,on its usage and consequent knowledge, attitude, practices and blood profile of diabetics. Nutrition education related to etiology, complications, management of diabetes, health benefits of stevia, its cooking qualities and knowledge regarding recipes developed using stevia was imparted to the diabetic subjects for a period of 3 months. Pre and post testing of knowledge, attitude and practices of subject was done using questionnaire technique. The blood parameters of the subjects were also recorded after imparting nutrition counseling. The finding indicated that stevia as sweetener was used only by 4 per cent subjects before nutrition counseling which increased to 64 per cent in males and 68 per cent in females after nutrition counseling. The percent decrease in fasting blood glucose level and post prandial blood glucose level in males was 8.56 per cent and 6.51 per cent and in females it was 7.09 per cent and 5.29 per cent after nutrition counseling. The percent decrease in total cholesterol and triglyceride in case of male subjects was 2.34 per cent and 2.48 per cent and in females was 2.76 per cent and 2.09 per cent after nutrition counseling. The percent gain in knowledge, attitude and practices scores of the subject was 101.33 per cent, 59.43 per cent and 84.32 per cent respectively, while the overall gain in knowledge, attitude and practices score of the subject was 84.69 per cent after nutrition counseling. It was concluded that diabetics should be encouraged to use stevia as it is natural, safe and has other therapeutic benefits.
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