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Diabetes Diet Carbohydrates

We've had some requests to discuss the diabetes diet, carbohydrates, and how the two are connected.  And since diabetes often, unfortunately, comes with a far greater propensity to gain weight, more so than for those without diabetes, it's an important condition to discuss further.

Counting Carbohydrates on a Diabetes Diet

If you suffer from diabetes, following a carefully planned diabetes diet must be integral to the way in which you manage you health.  The level of carbohydrates in your diet can have a large impact on this.

What's important to know is that all carbohydrates break down into simple sugars, so whether you're consuming complex carbohydrates like whole grain bread, or simple sugars like jelly beans, the amount of sugar that ends up in your body will be the same per gram of carbohydrate.

What is important, here, is the total amount of carbohydrates that you intake in your diet, so counting carbohydrates can be an important step.

Carbohydrates Breakdown in a Diabetes Diet

Although all carbohydrates are converted to the same base, simple sugars, the rate at which they're converted varies.  The length of time in which carbohydrates become sugars is between 5 minutes and 3 hours, and so the effect that different foods in a diabetes diet will have on your blood sugar levels, can be quite diverse.

And not all break down rates seem immediately logical.  For example, potatoes (healthy) raise the blood sugar levels more quickly than ice-cream (unhealthy).  This is because of the higher fat content present in the ice-cream.

For more information on diabetes diet carbohydrates, follow the links below.

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