Choosing The Sources of Carbs for Your Diabetes Diet

Should I spare my menu from carbohydrate, or should I keep taking it in a lesser portion? This is one of the frequently asked questions addressed by people who live with diabetes. The question about carbohydrate is due to the effort to control the balance nutrition of the daily food intake, so that the nutrition combination won’t cause rapid increase of blood sugar level during the metabolism or digestion process.



The best thing to deal with carbohydrate is controlling it and chooses the one that contains high fiber to put on your diabetes diet menu. You can choose the whole grain source of carbohydrates such as choosing the sweet potatoes instead of the white one. The other choice is replacing your white bread with the whole grain one. Oatmeal is often regarded as starchy food that contains high fiber. However, this can be generated when you choose the steel cut or the rolled oatmeal instead of the instant one. If you are used to eat rice as your staple food, you can replace the white rice with the brown one that is rich of fiber on your diabetes diet menu.

The source of food that you should avoid or lessening the portion on your diabetes diet is sweets, especially the one that contains single carbohydrate. This is due to the absorption process where the single carbohydrates is directly absorbed, and may cause the rapid increase of blood sugar level. You can look for healthy substitution so that you can enjoy sweets without hampering your blood sugar level.