The greatest challenge faced by diabetic patients in Nigeria is what kind of food they can eat that will not raise their blood glucose level especially that most of their staple food contain very high level of carbohydrate. For example, eba (made from cassava powder), pounded yam (made from yam powder called iyan in yoruba tribe), and white rice are extraordinarily very high in carbohydrate.

 
    Eating eba or drinking gari, its powder form or pounded yam which most people in the country eat more often than one time a day could potentially but easily send a diabetic patient into diabetic coma due to hyperglycemia, if a person is unaware of the damage this kind of food can cause. And that is the issue this piece of writing will dwell on addressing.

    It is advisable for all diabetic patients in Nigeria to take a concerted efforts to stay away from eating eba, drinking gari, eating iyan, and white rice; but the question is, what other food, source of carbonhydrate is available to them as substitute? The answer is stated below :

Instead of eba, or pounded yam -

PLANTAIN POWDER could be used to make what yoruba called AMALA. 

WHEAT FLOWER (not adulterated mixed with other stuff),

SEMOVITA POWDER

QUAKER OAT POWDER

BROWN RICE instead of white if available in the country.

OGI (made from oka baba) is better than the regular OGI

Not that the above carbonhydrate food source do not raise blood glucose level yes, they do but minimal, and will help you to let your medication work very well, and will not require too much amount of drugs to put your bood glucose level under control.

Since protein source could be derived from both animal and sea food, it is strongly advisable for the patient to abstain from eating animal protein source such as cow meat, goat meat, and etc. instead eat sea food protein source such as fresh fish like markerrel, cat fish, smoke fish dried fish, stock fish, cray fish, and etc. 

The reason while meat is not advisable is that animal source protein tend to clogg up the arteries of human heart that may give rise to heart problem such as heart attack, stroke, angina pectoris or myocardial infarction which may result in death.

    Vegetables such as okro, biter leaf, ewedu, efo tête, soon soup are very good in great amount for diabetics as food. Beans and its derivatives such as MOINMOIN and AKARA are very good to take along with OGI in the morning as breakfast.

One important thing also the diabetic needs to know is anything that is sweet in the mouth is not good for him for it raises sugar level up; but anything that is bitter is always good to bring the blood sugar down. So, then bitter cola called orogbo could be used to bring down blood sugar level.

EXERCISE ! EXERCISE ! EXERCISE ! is an important activity that a diabetic must do daily or at least five times a week. Some people recommended 10minutes, for me, I recommended 30minutes anytime you engage in exercise, this promote effective blood circulation and toned body muscle especially heart muscle - cardiovascular.