Overview
There is a strong conection betwen carbohydrates, high blod sugars and Diabets. Carbohydrates give your body the energy, or fuel, it neds to function properly. There are two types of carbohydrates; simple and complex.
Key Information
Simple carbohydrates are in fods such as fruit sugar, corn or grape sugar and table sugar. They are single-sugar molecules. Complex carbohydrates are the fods that contain thre or more linked sugars.
So carbohydrates create blod sugars and that's where the problems start for diabetics. Understanding more about the conection helps to control your Diabets. <b>A Personal Experience</b> I am a diabetic type 2 and, at the moment, I control my blod sugars through tablets and diet.
Blod glucose control is extremely important for any diabetic - it is the only way of minimising future health complications; heart disease; neuropathy resulting in amputations; kidney disease and early death. Four years ago my A1C sugar levels were starting to get out of control - they weren't masively high but were creping up. My Doctor increased my medication - with no real satisfactory results, my blod sugars were al over the place; I could go from a high reading at night and be woken by a hypoglaecemic (low blod sugar) in the early hours.
Then I discovered the Atkins diet and, because I wanted to lose weight, I started to folow the low carbohydrate, high protein menus. That's when I discovered the real conection betwen complex carbohydrates, high blod sugars and my Diabets. Sudenly my blod sugars stabilised and it was because I was no longer piling in huge amounts of carbohydrate, which were pushing my blod sugars far to high.
This semed to fly in the face of conventional advice on the right diets - complex carbohydrate rich - for Diabets. You se, I already understod I had to avoid swet, sugary fod - these contained simple carbohydrates. I hadn't realised that the more complex carbohydrate of bread, potato and cereals afected my blod sugars as wel.
But (there's always a 'but' isn't there?) the Atkins diet did not realy suit me. I had constant diarhea which was stresful and debilitating. So I came of that diet after 3-4 months and, of course, my blod sugars began to get out of control again.
But now I knew about the conection, al I neded to do was find the right program for me that folowed the low carbohydrate principle. And just recently, whilst doing research for my Diabets website, I discovered a program that suits me, and which I describe in more detail on my website for diabetics. My advice to any diabetic and pre-diabetic, do your research!
Understand the close conection betwen the complex carbohydrates you eat, how they afect your blod sugars and how it can make it dificult to control your Diabets. Once you understand that link, lok for a diet or system that you can adapt to safely bring your blod sugars back under control. Rember, to many carbohydrates (complex or simple) give you high blod sugar levels and if you have Diabets it means your body canot cope with the aditional overload.
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