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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sally and james" data-source="post: 647269" data-attributes="member: 93504">Let's try and remove some of the confusion:  If you have impaired glucose tolerance, it would seem sensible to reduce the amount of glucose put into your body.  In simple terms, glucose = sugar = starch = carbohydrates.  In other words, they all end up as glucose, so all need to be avoided or, at least, reduced in your diet.So, where are these sugars/starches/carbohydrates?They are in flour and flour products, pasta, potatoes, rice, bread, breakfast cereal.  Honey is simply tasty sugar.  Fruit is "nature's candy", especially tropical fruits such as mangoes and pineapples.  Bananas are little more than starch.  Sugary drinks, cakes, sweets, biscuits are all obvious things to avoid.  So, what can you eat:  Meat, veg. dairy produce, cheese, eggs, cream, fish, seeds, nuts for example.The important thing is to get a glucose meter and find out what different foods do to you.Sally</blockquote>

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