Diabetes should change the way you eat. Managing blood sugar can become a life or death situation, and diabetics have a much higher risk for heart disease and other heart-related risks than the general population. Tack on the risk of losing vision and limbs, and you can imagine why controlling the condition is so important. But a healthy eating plan for diabetics isn’t as complex as you might think. In fact, it looks almost exactly like one for people without diabetes. The American Diabetes Association (ADA) repeats the dietary guidelines suggested for everybody else: build your diet around fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, and low-fat dairy products. Of course, there is one thing you’ll need to do that the general population might not: pay attention to total carbohydrate intake. But even then, your intake won’t vary too much from recommendations for the general population. Most diabetics should keep carbohydrate intake …