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Being diagnosed with diabetes could mean eliminating or limiting a lot of your favorite foods. Foods having a high carbohydrate content, for example many desserts, large amounts of pasta, breads, sugary cereals and soft drinks, can make your glucose levels skyrocket within a few minutes after eating. With time, this can damage your small arteries and lead to heart diseases, blindness, kidney diseases, stroke as well as amputations. Diabetics can include a variety of carbohydrates which are digested more slowly, such as the ones present in non-starchy vegetables, fresh fruits, nuts and yams to stay healthier with their condition.

Starchy carbohydrates include bread (and bread products), potatoes, chapattis, pasta, rice, cous cous, noodles and cereals. Pulse vegetables also contain starchy carbohydrate. These food types increase the blood glucose even though they aren't sweet in taste. Your body digests them and breaks them into sugar. Even though they raise blood sugar they should not be seen as 'bad' foods because they do a really important job, serving as fuel for the body to supply energy. We need energy to exist, visit school, play, do sports and also to make our brains work. Children likewise need energy for growth.