Thanks for your replies.
Thanks for ALL your replies,appreciated. I have medication for the hiatus hernia before I knew that I had diabetes. So the acid reflux I had before has completely stopped. I was eating chocolate,cakes,biscuits etc with no reflux. So to be honest diet wasnt a Issue with my hiatus hernia once I received medication. Now I have diabetes all those sweet,high carb foods I was having before have gone anyhow. This morning the shredded wheat,milk I had totalled 20 grams of Carbohydrates,and I put no sugar on them. I will obviously take a blood reading once I get my meter to see what difference it makes. I understand carbs are bad,however,surely foods with fibre like shredded wheat,all bran are essential part of a healthy diet too ? We have to eat some carbs dont we? I saw a comment by someone in the "5" club that they eat 120 grams of carbohydrates a day..
Well, there's a bit of debate on the 'do you need carbs' thing.
The traditional view is that you do.
The new, better educated view based on modern research is that you don't. The body does need a small amount of glucose, but it can be found from non-starchy veg and protein (the digestion of protein releases some glucose - it is called gluconeogenesis). So the human body can manage perfectly well without eating ANY of the starchy carbs so beloved of old-style nutrition thinking. Please don't let other people with dinosaur thinking persuade you otherwise.
Fibre is needed (although again, you get a few people who disagree), but you can easily get all the fibre you need from veg, if you eat good portions of them - and we should all be doing that.
The main thing, at this stage, is to keep an open mind, and test to see what that shredded wheat is doing to your blood glucose levels. It spikes mine something terrible. I avoid all grains, cereals and starchy veg. I don't want the high blood glucose that will lead to diabetic complications in the future.
Your body may be able to tolerate the carbs, in which case I will envy you.
but they aren't
necessary for a healthy diet.