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Diet and controlling blood sugar levels
Making informed diet choices is one of the main ways in which we can help to control diabetes.
Blood glucose testing can be very helpful for reviewing how different foods affect blood sugar levels.
A good way to do this is to take a test before eating, and then another one or two tests after eating, at intervals of around two and four hours after a meal.
This method of blood glucose testing is known as
pre- and post-prandial testing. Testing your blood sugar this way across a variety of meals can help you deduce which meals are better for your sugar levels.
You can also begin to work out what portions of a particular food type your body can tolerate without raising your sugar levels too high.
Low-carbohydrate diets have shown to be effective in people with type 2 diabetes, leading to improved blood glucose levels and reducing dependency on medication. Diabetes.co.uk's
Low Carb Program, which is free to join, provides nutrition education and tracking tools to help people with type 2 diabetes reduce their HbA1c and weight.