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Traditionally it was believed that foods such as cookies, cake, pasta and potatoes were off-limits to those with type II diabetes. Now that's not necessarily the case. According to a position statement in Diabetes Care (2001, vol. 24, supp. 1), diabetics may be able to indulge in the occasional treat." For most of this century, the most widely held belief about the nutritional treatment of diabetes has been that simple sugars should be avoided and replaced with starches," the article says." This belief appears to be based on the assumption that sugars are more rapidly digested and absorbed than are starches and thereby aggravate hyperglycemia to a greater degree. There is, however, very little scientific evidence ...