Blood Sugar Level Test Equipment

Counting carbohydrates is the most popular method for meal planning for people with diabetes. This technique can help with weight loss and blood sugar control, and it can even assist with other health conditions like high cholesterol or high blood pressure. Despite being a tool mainly used for people with diabetes, it is actually how everyone should eat.

How Do Carbohydrates Function?

Carbohydrates raise blood sugar and as a result, many people assume the less carbohydrate they eat, the better, but this is not true.

Carbohydrate is transformed into glucose in the body. Glucose is the body’s preferred source of fuel, and depends on it for energy. The average person needs a minimum of 130 g of carbohydrate a day for normal brain and body function. 

Carbohydrates are:

• starchy foods like breads, cereals, rice, pasta, crackers, etc.
• fruit and juice
• milk and yogurt
• dried beans like pinto beans and soy products like veggie burgers
• starchy vegetables like potatoes,  beans, corn, winter squash, peas and parsnips
• sweets and snack foods like sodas, pies, cakes, cookies, candy, and chips