Diabetes - Carbohydrate Counting

Nutrition Care Process (Toolkits)

Last Updated: 2021-04-14 Target Group: All Adults, All children(0-12 yr.), Youth(13-17 yr.)

The overall goals of nutrition interventions for the management of diabetes are:

to maintain or improve quality of life
to promote healthy growth and development through optimal nutrition
to maintain or improve quality of life and nutritional and physiological health, and prevent and treat acute and long-term complications of diabetes, associated comorbid conditions and concomitant disorders (4).

Carbohydrate counting is one example of a self-management approach that can be used to achieve these