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Suffering From Diabetes - Ways To Optimize Your Nutrition! What happens in  diabetes ?   Your body is unable to breakdown  sugar   due to either the production of less insulin or because of insulin insensitivity. This leads to a surge of sugar in your blood.  High   sugar   damages key organs like kidneys, heart and nerves inside your body. If left untreated, diabetes cuts down on life expectancy and takes life away from the years a diabetic is alive. Its treatment is managing the quantity of blood sugar through diet and lifestyle changes, including exercise. Diabetes nutrition Diabetes nutrition requires cutting down on food items that raise blood sugar or glucose. These are called high glycemic index food items. The glycemic index is the ability of food to raise blood sugar in the body. Usually, it is measured as a reference to glucose, as 100. So, ‘bad’ carbs are the highly processed  carbohydrates  like polished  rice , white flours and semolina or sooji with the high