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What are diabetic foods? Diabetic foods are nothing more than the foods a normal person would eat, minus those with excessive amounts of sugar. Using the term “excessive amounts of sugar” opens up the discussion to carbohydrates and sugar. While it is easy to pick up packaged foods and read the labels, which tell us how much sugar there is in the product, how about the carbohydrates and how they translate into sugar? Does it matter? It’s pretty much the same scenario when it comes to fresh fruits since they have natural sugar. Do they matter? Let’s talk about carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are a complex group of foods that can be simple sugars like glucose, more complex sugars like cane sugar and complex sugars like starch. I think most people recognize foods like potatoes, pasta and bread as foods with starch. So what does a diabetic do about those foods? Do they avoid them or do they eat them in moderation? Each individual diabetic has to make this determination for themselves. That is to say, they can eat these foods and judge the results based on taking their blood sugar with a glucose meter and seeing what effect these foods have on their blood sugar. The results will not be identical for each diabetic. A diabetic would employ the same approach to eating fresh fruits. Fresh fruits contain sugar and the only way to know how fresh fruits affect you is to eat them, test your blood sugar and judge the results for yourself. Each fruit is different and you will need to test each one that you would like to eat. Once you become a diabetic that’s the routine, eating and testing until you discover what your system can handle and what it can’t handle. Diabetic foods are not some kind of special foods. They are the common every day foods that everyone eats, taken in moderation. It is almost impossible to “eat” without taking in sugar in one form or another. The idea behind a diet for a person who has diabetes is to simply eat and test, eat and test. This procedure will tell a diabetic how certain foods affect their blood sugar. When you know a particular food affects your blood sugar adversely, eliminate that food from your diet. Another approach is to plan your meals. If you plan to have a pasta dish for dinner, then don’t have bread that day, since both are starches. A common sense approach to your diet such as this controls the amounts of sugar you take in and therefore controls your blood sugar.
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