[Proper diet in type 2 diabetes as a means of patients' rehabilitation].

The aim of the study was to specify the dietary habits of type 2 diabetes sufferers. The investigation was conducted in medical centres of the Małopolskie voivodship in 2008. Anonymous questionnaires were filled in by a group of l00 persons (66 women and 34 men) aged 40 to 84. Principles of proper nutritional behaviour were implemented to a limited extent by the ill studied. The most common dietary errors were: the lack of regular meal intake, snacking between meals, eating sweets and employing inadvisable cooking techniques. The patients' diets included fatty meats such as pâté, salami, sausages. The relevant education in regard to nutritional principles in diabetes and other civilisation diseases should be realised for the patients.