made of fat like carbohydrates they do not directly raise the level of blood sugar rather they take time to digest and releases sugar slowly fats are an important part of a wellbalanced diet they are essential for absorption of fat soluble vitamins and production of various important hormonesplease note we need to understand that the proper order of food intake is also important if we start our meal with proteins and add vegetables to it low glycemic load is created and thus blood sugar levels do not spike taking a little portion of sweets desserts after the meal does not result in spike adds arfeen