A cookbook typically provides people with a large number of recipes to make tasty and nutritious dishes. A diabetic diet cookbook is written keeping in mind the specific nutritional needs of a diabetic patient. A diabetic should abstain from eating food that have high cholesterol or sugar content. Therefore, the recipes in a diabetic cookbook are low in sugar and cholesterol content but high in proteins.

Diabetic diet cookbooks are a useful source of information about food composition, cooking tips, favorite recipe modifications, portions and menus. Most diabetic diet cookbooks contain information on the amount of calories, fats, carbohydrates, minerals, proteins and vitamins that each serving of a certain dish contains. These cookbooks offer alternate ways of cooking certain recipes that should not otherwise be eaten by diabetes patients.

The recipes in a diabetic cookbook usually contain natural, whole foods like fish, herbal sweeteners and legumes (beans, peas and lentils). These types of food help stabilize blood sugar. The recipes are designed to provide a balanced nutritional content of 50% carbohydrate, 25% protein and 25% fat.

While the recipes in a diabetic diet cookbook are designed for diabetics, a non- diabetic can also follow these diets and remain healthy. In fact, readership surveys in the US indicate that 33 % of the people who bought diabetic books in 2004 were non -diabetics.

It is estimated that 18.2 million Americans suffer from diabetes. This is viewed as a sizeable opportunity by many chefs and culinary authors to continue compiling and publishing these impressive and needed cookbooks. Non-diabetics who read these books are an added bonus for authors and publishers as well. You will find diabetic diet cookbooks in most bookstores, and they can be ordered over the Internet.