About Us
We are delighted that you found us. Diabetic-Recipes.com, part of the Vertical Health family of websites, was founded in 1997 by Frances Towner Giedt and Bonnie Sanders Polin, PhD.
Frances and Bonnie wrote many diabetes-focused cookbooks together. One of them—the Joslin Diabetes Gourmet Cookbook—was awarded the coveted James Beard Cookbook Award. It’s the only diabetes cookbook to have ever won the James Beard Award. It was also nominated for the renowned Julia Child Cookbook Award. You can learn more about Frances and Bonnie here.
Diabetic-Recipes was created with one purpose: to offer an ever-growing array of delicious, healthy recipes to people living with diabetes. We always provide nutritional analysis and information on diabetic exchanges because we want to make it easy for you to eat well.
Diabetic-Recipes is full of useful menus to help you put your meals together—whether it’s for a family supper, a picnic in the park, or an elaborate holiday celebration.
Bon appétit!
About the Founders
Frances Towner Giedt
Frances Towner Giedt, who had type 2 diabetes,
wrote 12 cookbooks, including the Joslin Diabetes Gourment Cookbook, winner of the
James Beard Cookbook Award and a nominee for the Julia Child Cookbook Award. A home
economist with graduate work in dietetics, Frances was a member of the International Wine,
Food, & Travel Writers Association (WF&TWA), the American Diabetes Association (ADA),
and the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP). Frances passed away in
2007.
Bonnie Sanders Polin, PhD
Bonnie Sanders Polin, PhD is the co-author of
the Joslin Diabetes Gourmet Cookbook, winner of the James Beard Cookbook Award and a
nominee for the Julia Child Cookbook Award. A retired psychologist specializing in
children and adults with chronic diseases, Bonnie is co-founder of a diabetes clinic for the
working poor at Project Get Together. She’s also a frequent speaker for the
American Diabetes Association and Interim Healthcare on issues of health care and nutrition
for people with diabetes. She serves as a member of the board of directors for the American
Diabetes Association, Children's Services Leadership Board, Dillon International, Interim
Health Care, and Project Get Together. She was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1982.
Diabetic-Recipes works with an Advisory Board to ensure that our recipes and the nutritional information are accurate.
About Our Advisory Board
Tammi Hancock, RD
In 1986, Tammi Hancock, RD started working with people affected by diabetes. Since
then, she has worked with patients at the Mayo Clinic and in private practice. Tammi
does the nutritional analysis for all recipes on Diabetic-Recipes. To do that, she uses
software provided by “The Food Processor,” Version 6.01 by ESHA Research.
Amy Hess-Fischl, MS, RD, LDN, BC-ADM, CDE
Amy Hess-Fischl, MS, RD,
LDN, BC-ADM, CDE is a program coordinator for the Teen and Adolescent Diabetes Transition
Program at the University of Chicago’s Kovler Diabetes Center. She is also a certified
diabetes educator, nutrition specialist, and certified insulin pump trainer.
Her professional activities include writing CE test items for the American Association of Diabetes Educators, reviewing submissions for the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, and participating on the advisory boards of Nature’s Way, Dreamfields Pasta, and Jolly Time Popcorn.
She completed her undergraduate degree at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL. While earning her Master of Science degree from Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, WI, she researched the effect evening snacks have on blood sugars of patients with type 1 diabetes.
Gerald Mark Polin, MD
Gerald Mark Polin, MD is board certified in child psychiatry and general psychiatry.
During his career, he specialized in behavioral medicine and eating disorders. Sadly,
some people with diabetes develop an eating disorder—especially adolescents.
Treating the eating disorder becomes a vital part of the overall diabetes treatment
plan. Dr. Polin is now retired.
Richard Sanders Polin, MD
Richard Sanders Polin, MD is a neurosurgeon at Louisiana State University Medical Center in
Shreveport, LA. In 1997, he received the Best Young Neurosurgical Researcher in the
United States Award, which is given by the American Medical Association.
Christopher G. Zitnay, MD
Christopher G. Zitnay, MD is board certified in internal medicine, endocrinology, diabetes,
and metabolism. Dr. Zitnay received his medical degree from the University of Virginia,
where he also did his endocrinology fellowship. Dr. Zitnay now has a private
endocrinology practice in Charlottesville, VA. He has type 1 diabetes.
About Vertical Health
In America today, we face serious health concerns. Back pain. Obesity. Diabetes. Osteoporosis. Chronic pain.Millions of people are looking for help, for answers, for treatment—and that’s why Vertical Health exists.
Our expert-driven websites are trusted resources for patients and medical professionals. Vertical Health has several educational and expert-driven health information websites—SpineUniverse, EndocrineWeb, Diabetic-Recipes, and Diabetic-Lifestyle.
Vertical Health also owns SpineCME, the online resources for Continuing Medical Education programs for spine professionals. We also have a medical meeting planning division—BroadWater. It’s the most trusted and respected meeting planning company in the spine field, and we’ve run over 200 meetings around the world.
