Hi:
there are a lot of good diabetes sites online. I use google as a search engine. Just search for diabetes, diabetic, gestational diabetes, and a new one to me glycemic index. There are a lot of factors that affect blood sugar levels. With diabetes the body doesn’t produce enough insulin and/or is unable to use insulin properly, causing one’s blood glucose or "sugar" to rise too high. Diabetes can be treated with diet, exercise, medication or a combination of the three. When I started my treatment with medication and diet, it took a couple of weeks to get control. I had to learn how many carbs I could eat at a meal. When I added exercise I had to eat more carbs to keep my sugar from going to low. That let me eat a healthy diet, loose weight, and keep my sugar in a normal range.
Gestational diabetes affects about 4% of all pregnant women. During some women’s pregnancy hormones from the placenta that help the baby develop also block the action of the mother's insulin in her body. Left untreated or poorly controlled gestational diabetes can hurt your baby. While gestational diabetes usually goes away after pregnancy, some women will go on to develop type 2 diabetes years later.
Every now and then even though I ate the right number of carbs my sugars would go crazy. Then I found out about the glycemic index and glycemic load. All carbs are not created the same. The glycemic index measures how fast a food is likely to raise your blood sugar. If a food is composed of complex carbohydrate (starch), it will break down into sugar more slowly in your body than food composed of simple carbohydrates (sugars). The rate at which a food raises someone’s blood sugar is called the glycemic response. It depends on the type of carb, the way the food was processed, the amount and the way the food was cooked.

Here are a few of the sites that I have found.

Http://www.Curezone.Com/forums/f.Asp?F=30

http://www.Diabetesforum.Net/eng_home_page .Htm

http://www.Joslin.Harvard.Edu/education/li brary/index.Shtml#general

http://www.Diabetic-lifestyle.Com/

http://www.Savvyhealth.Com/disp.Asp?Doc_id =507

http://www.Diabetesforums.Com/

http://www.Informationaboutdiabetes.Com/ge stational_diabetes.Htm

http://www.Diabetes.Org/main/info/affected /women/gestation_diab.Jsp

http://This link has been removed/forums/diabetes/archive/diabetes_a nd_pregnancy.Html

http://diabeticgourmet.Com/diabetic_recipe _archive/

http://www.Diabetes.Ca/section_about/glyce mic.Asp