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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
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.

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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