Think tasty, but healthful

0 Comments | USA TODAY, November, 2007 | by Nanci Hellmich

People with diabetes often fear that they'll never be able to eat good-tasting food again.

That's what registered dietitian and exercise physiologist Ann Albright found when working with those patients. "They sometimes felt like they were going to prison, and they were only going to drink water and eat toothpicks for the rest of their lives," she says.

She quickly assured them that this wasn't the case but told them they would have to learn to make more healthful choices.

Albright, who has type 1 diabetes, now works full time trying to help people with diabetes improve their diets. She's head of the diabetes division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and the American Diabetes Association's president of Healthcare and...