Educate yourself on the "glycemic index." This is a system that helps one to make good food choices. Calories don't tell us jack about how something will effect our blood. Did you know, for instance, that white sugar is lower on the glycemic index, i.e. does not make your blood as sweet, as puffed rice? Yes, starch, which is composed of pure glucose breaks down into sugar faster than sucrose, which is a molecule fructose (very low on the index) and glucose, attached to one another........ . Also, explore safe and effective supplements (not patentable, and therefore not a penny spent on promoting them, despite clinical evidence weighing heavily in their favor) like Alpha Lipoic Acid, Bitter Melon, Psyllium or Glucomannan, and GTF chromium.....