UD Cooperative Extension offers cooking program for people with diabetes

12:58 p.m., Jan. 29, 2015--Diabetes is a serious, common and costly disease affecting 29.1 million people nationwide. 

In Delaware, the prevalence rate is slightly higher than that of the nation, with an estimated 80,000 Delawareans over the age of 18 currently diagnosed with diabetes, or roughly 11.1 percent of the population. In addition, pre-diabetes, a condition that places persons at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes and also at increased risk of developing heart disease, affects 8.9 percent of Delawareans over the age of 18.

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Because of this, University of Delaware Cooperative Extension has developed a Dining with Diabetes workshop to help teach those with the disease how to reduce sugar, salt and fat in foods without giving up good taste.

The program is a series of three class sessions that includes diabetes education, cooking demonstrations and tasting of healthy foods. After each lesson, participants will take home recipes and knowledge about how to manage diabetes in their daily lives.

The classes this year will be offered from 9-11 a.m. on Wednesdays throughout February, starting Feb. 11 and continuing on Feb. 18 and 25. Snow dates for the classes are Wednesday, March 4 and Wednesday, March 11. 

The first class will focus on desserts, the second class will focus on the main dishes and the third class will focus on side dishes. 

The classes will take place in Room 113 in the Health Sciences Complex on UD’s Science, Technology and Advanced Research (STAR) Campus, 540 South College Avenue. The cost for the three-class session is $45. 

Attendance is limited to the first 50 people to register. 

Checks should be made payable to the University of Delaware and sent, along with the registration form, to the New Castle County Cooperative Extension Office, room 131, 461 Wyoming Road, Newark, DE 19716. 

For more information on the New Castle County session, call 302-831-1239 or visit the Dining with Diabetes website.