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Carbohydrate counting: a quick guide

Carbohydrate counting, or carb counting, is a tool to better manage your diabetes. This resource is a quick guide to carbohydrate counting and includes:

  • what are carbohydrate foods
  • how to count carbohydrates
  • a sample meal plan
  • carbohydrate exchanges
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Carbohydrate counting quick guide

This quick guide is about carbohydrate counting. Carbohydrate counting, or carb counting, is a tool to better manage your diabetes.

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This resource is based on the fact sheet below.

An NDSS fact sheet titled 'Carbohydrate counting', explaining how carbs affect blood glucose levels for people managing diabetes. The header image shows a middle-aged man with glasses looking at a food package in a supermarket aisle. The text includes a bulleted list under the section 'Why are carbs important?'.
Carbohydrate counting fact sheet

All the carbohydrates, you eat and drink change into glucose within about two hours, which affects your body’s blood glucose level. Understand the effect that carbs have to help you manage your diabetes.

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