“if I read correctly, something like the atkins low carb diet is suggested for diabetes.”
Some people think so, but I would disagree. In one of the videos, I don’t recall which one, the physician uses a diagram to show where many of the common diets fall in relationship to each other. The Atkins and New Atkins diets fall outside of the range needed to achieve a state of nutritional ketosis. It is this state of ketosis which switches on the body’s ability to replace carbohydrates and proteins (glucose) with fats (ketones) needed to fuel the metabolism of the body.
The Atkins diets provide proteins in amounts exceeding the nutritional requirements of the metabolism, so the excess protein is converted to glucose to replace the carbohydrates removed from the body. The glucose obtained from dietary carbohydrates, glucogen in the liver, and from proteins taken from breaking down muscle tissue to create glucose, is used to fuel the metabolism and/or stored as additional body fat on the body’s adipose tissues. In the presence of chronic problems with excessive levels of insulin, these circumstances result in people who have bodies undergoing starvation, stick like bones and skin in the arms and legs from losses of muscle tissue, loss of the muscle in the gluteus maximus (butt), little muscle tissue on the ribcage, and a giant and ever growing fat belly. The insulin levels locks away the body fat so it cannot be used for fuel, so the metabolism has to use the protein in the muscles to produce glucose for the metabolism to use for fuel in the absence of glucose.
The more insulin resistant a person’s metabolism is the less likely it is that the Atkins diets can be successful for a given individual.
thank you
I recent;y did atkins strictly (without adding carbs back into the dirt) for 6 weeks. Sugar under control, cholesterol normal, and lost 13 pounds. Thinking of going back on. Thanksgiving set me off and i did my usual thing, binge. I have tried atkins several times one time losing 47 pounds. Putting it back on and binging at the end.
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