A balanced diet is in addition to the regular self-monitoring blood glucose and Harnzuckerwerte, the keeping a diary and regular physical activity, the alpha and omega of a successful treatment for diabetes. The modern diabetic diet differs little from the diet of healthy individuals, ie that are not cooked specially for people with diabetes need.
With regard to energy, there are basically no different recommendations for diabetics and non-diabetics. You should be so high that a normal body weight is achieved or maintained. This is v.a. for type 2 diabetes is crucial, since the action of insulin decreases with increasing body weight. Therefore leads in most cases, a weight to an improvement or even normalization of blood glucose levels.
