In the past, it was thought that diet with excess carbohydrates would immediately cause the level of blood sugar to rise. Thus, the low-carb food. Interestingly, the new diabetic diet approach is one that concentrates on the right calories intake. It raises the question - which approach should a diabetic take?

In the past, it was thought that any excess carbohydrates, especially sugars, would immediately cause the level of blood sugar to rise, causing high blood sugar problems for diabetics. Consequently for years, the dietary advice for all diabetics was to restrict the intake of carbohydrates - both starchy foods and refined sugar. While so much attention was paid to the amount of carbohydrate in the diabetic diet, there was little or no concern about the proportion of fat or protein eaten and the dietary fibre content was never even taken into consideration. The total energy content of the diet - expressed in calories - was only thought important for diabetics who were overweight and needed to control food intake to achieve weight loss.

Diabetes type 2 is perhaps one of the most researched topics anywhere in the world. Thus with all the wealth of information you must have stumbled upon, you may think you already know everything there is to know about diabetes type 2.

For instance, you must know by now that diabetes type 2 is also called adult onset or non-insulin dependent. For sure, too, you must know that diabetes type 2 is only one type of diabetes --- there are two others, diabetes type 1 and gestational diabetes.

Type II Diabetes is a condition where the body is deficient in producing insulin, either it can't produce enough or the insulin it does produce doesn't work properly. This means the glucose levels in the blood can't be controlled and there is the potential for them to become too concentrated.

Traditionally Type II Diabetes was an illness that affected the older generation but more and more young people are discovering they have the disease. Experts believe this is due to higher obesity levels and lower activity levels throughout the UK.