Dietary Carbohydrates in our Standard American Diet  ( SAD ) are the main reason for the development of Diabetes Type 2.  Therefore it is crutially important to correct your diet in the first place.  To figure out what food is good an d what is not scientists suggested so called Glycemic Index ( GI).  It gives us the idea how high blood sugar goes after eating certain foods.  Pure glucose is the worst and its Glycemic Index ( GI ) is 100.  Baked potato is not that much better: its GI is 97.  In contrast GI of whole barley or fructose is about 20.  It was shown that eating foods with low GI reduces the risk for Diabetes and Obesity ( 1,2 )

Diabetes dietary suggestions:

1.  Increase intake of high fiber foods, legums, onions and garlic.

2.  Compex carbohydrates like potato and rice are allowed in moderation.

3.  Avoid fats especially transfats and saturated fats.

4.  Stay away from any processed refined carbs like juices, candies, cookies, soda etc.

Of course diet alone cannot fix the problem.  It cannot fix neurotransmitter imbalance, it may not be able to fix minerals and vitamins deficiency because of maldigestion or malabsorbtion. It canot fix Hormonal Imbalances either. To figure out what is going on you need to see Functional Medicine Doctor to go to the root cause of the problem and elimiate it.

References:

1.  Willet, Manson, Liu. Glycemic idex, glycemic load and risk of Type 2 Diabetes. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2002, 76: 274S -- 280S.

2.  Jenkins, Kendall, Augustin.  Glycemic Index: overview of implicationsin health and disease.  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.  2002, 76: 266S -- 273S.