Some foods can cause your blood sugar to rise very quickly. That's because carbohydrates are converted to glucose, the sugar your body uses for energy. Eating a lot of carbohydrates can make it harder to control your blood sugar, even with insulin and diabetes medication.

Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) is a disorder in which, despite the presence of islet antibodies at diagnosis of diabetes, progression of autoimmune β-cell failure is slow. Therefore, LADA patients do not require insulin, at least for the first 6 months after diagnosis of diabetes.