Instructional materials are provided for a workshop to enable participants to educate patients and food service staff regarding diabetic diets, incorporating current therapeutic recommendations and allowing variation and flexibility. Representative topics are facts about diabetes mellitus, high risk groups, symptoms, treatment and goals of diet therapy, types of diabetic diets, medications used in its treatment, the food exchange system, sugar substitutes, nutrition label and nutrition label exchanges, and converting a recipe to exchanges. An instructor's guide lists workshop activities and a workshop outline with suggestions for instructor activities. Other contents include information sheets for participants, transparency masters, workshop assignments, answers to workshop assignments, and a list of workshop references. (YLB)