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If you are an athlete then you probably have heard that eating a diet rich in carbohydrates is what you need to do in order to have enough energy for your competitions. This is true and false depending on your level of competition. If you are seriously training for an endurance competition then you are more than likely burning enough calories that you will not have a body mass index problem. That means you won’t be worried about eating low carb in order to lose weight so you can carb load with no problem.
But, if you are an athlete and diabetic you will need to limit blood sugar levels even though you are getting plenty of exercise. Of course by burning lots of energy in physical activities you are part of the way there, but you will still need to limit carbs based on your blood glucose levels.
In this case you wouldn’t want to eat a no carb foods diet but you should instead concentrate on eating complex carbohydrates which will take a while to digest. This will keep your blood glucose levels at more reasonable levels for your diabetes.
So you will want to cut out all sugar that is added to food. This would include sucrose (table sugar) as well as high fructose corn syrup. Instead of these sugars which are quickly absorbed in the digestive tract, you will want to get your sweets from fruit. It still contains fructose and sucrose but they are bonded together in a complex molecule which is slower to be absorbed during the digestive process. Fruit sugars are balanced 50-50 whereas high fructose corn syrup is 60% fructose and 40% sucrose.
Also, eat only whole grains and be sure the entire kernel of the grain is intact after milling. Some cheap “whole grain” products actually refined out all the nutrients and then add bran back in to get to the legal definition of “whole wheat.”