| With diabetes, your body doesn’t produce enough insulin, a hormone, to help your body to convert food into fuel (blood sugar). This means that high levels of glucose (sugar) remain in your blood. There are two types of diabetes:
Insulin dependent diabetes - this means you have a severe lack of insulin, and is treated by insulin injections and diet.
Non-insulin diabetes - this is the more common form, and means you have some but not enough insulin, or your insulin is not being used properly. This is often treated using diet alone.
What should you eat?
If you’ve been diagnosed with diabetes, you should have already met a registered dietician for advice on the right food choices to help you manage the condition.
A healthy diet for diabetes is all about balancing your food choices and achieving and maintaining a healthy weight. The diet recommended is very similar to the healthy eating recommendations for those without diabetes and is low in fat, sugar and salt. Meals are based on low fat, low GI wholegrain starchy foods like pasta, bread, other cereals, pulses plus lots of fruit and vegetables.
Why bread?
Bread belongs to the starchy food group and in a healthy balanced diet, meals should be based on these foods. Bread products can provide a healthy snack choice too. Choose the varieties with a low to medium GI to aid blood glucose control.
How Warburtons can help
We produce a wide range of bread products that are suitable for practically everyone, including those with diabetes, and offer the kind of variety that makes the largest part of your diet more varied and interesting.
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