Do Low-Carb Diets Help Diabetes?

Well then, I must be an alien. The Celiac-cured patients of Dr. Sidney Valentine Haas from over 70 years ago must also be aliens. Okinawans, too.

Sarcasm aside, I consume carbs on a regular basis, but smartly. Sugars as well, but avoid manufactured sugars (anything from corn or sugarbeets, including refined white sugar). The difference being the cliche’ statement “all things in moderation”. The exceptions should be obvious, but in my interactions with people it’s becoming clear that I might have to list those exceptions in much more detail than my simple, single-page “blacklist” to satisfy the needs of others. Most people don’t care about the details; they just want to know how to get from point A to point B. Sadly, much more is required due to all the hazards en route, so-to-speak. This may point to part of your own frustration.

I reiterate my advice: Seek a qualified ND. If you’ve been dealing with this for 12 years and continue to have health issues, the likelihood is that you’re missing something. I truly missed my calling, as solving problems is my skill, but I hate blood & biology. My own interest and resulting books were borne of a cliche’: Necessity is the mother of invention.

Considering all the people I’ve interacted with having similar stories, the odds are in my favor that there’s something missing from your approach.

Fast fact:
When I was eating a whole-food/clean-food/raw-food diet my health continued to decline to the point of severe nutrient deficiency. This prompted a new approach due to an obvious ignorance on my part. This also resulted in rewriting my then-book and producing volume II after ANOTHER hundreds of hours of research, dedicated autodidacticism and a yearlong regimen to regain my health. When I state of others about their own “ignorance” I do not do so out of spite, but rather encouragement to a path of enlightenment & discovery.
Thus, my experience with the approach of “eating clean, whole food” as panacea for human health is shot down in flames. So is “carb-free”. Gluten-free as well.

With that, a quote:
Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. - Albert Einstein

There is no ‘diet’ to solve everyone’s problems. It’s a shell game...a manipulation of the public in what is now a grand scheme to profit off of our misfortune and control the population by means of health services.
Thus, controlling one’s health is a Conservative mandate, but I cannot claim that in my book for obvious reasons.

I encourage you to follow me and once you see how I address my new approach to physical health matters, it will all make sense. For now, it’s so secret that I haven’t even told myself in the mirror...

"When I was eating a whole-food/clean-food/raw-food diet my health continued to decline to the point of severe nutrient deficiency."

Did you include MEAT in that whole food life-style ?

I'll admit to wanting to learn more, and IF I lived alone, and wasn't tied down with my aging parent, my eating habits would be a lot different.
But again, their demands leave me exhausted.
Mother won't even come close to following her doctor's instructions, but dad s doing pretty good.
At mother's rate, she won't be around much longer, but I have tried to help.

But as for myself, I do what I can, budget allowing, and time allowing.
Thanks for the input.

Yes, low carb in the way to go. Yet all we hear today is to follow the food pyramid and eat “healthy.” How is that working for America. Sugar is the enemy. Low fat is a scam. Counting calories is a scam.

It's hard to believe we are still having these arguments decades after the "food pyramid" was debunked as one of the most unhealthy ways to eat.

Unfortunately, many doctors and so-called nutritional experts are still locked in on the conventional wisdom that fat is bad and that carbs are "heart-healthy."

I lost over 100 pounds in 2003 after finally trying a low-carb diet. While I've fluctuated back and forth since, my health continues to be excellent and my wife scratches her head at my excellent HDL cholesterol, blood pressure and triglycerides despite having eggs and meat virtually every day.

The government experts are just plain wrong with the food pyramid. I'm sure part of it is they are lobbied by the pharmaceutical and grain industries to keep recommending a carb-heavy diet but it is causing many of us metabolical syndrome which results in diabetes, cancer and the heart disease that they promise us a carb-heavy fat-free diet will prevent.

But I think the biggest part of it is that they have been locked into the narrative and do not want to admit they were wrong. So like the global warming crowd, they will cling to their bad science to the bitter end, even if it makes millions of people unhealthy and even die sooner.

Reason I fluctuate is that I find it hard to stay off the carbs for more than a few months at a time. Eventually the beer, breads and rice creep back in. When I start hitting the apple pies and the cookies like I just did over Christmas, I know it's time to get back on the low carb. Then I drop 30 or so pounds quickly and get back to near where I was in 2003.

But over the past 15 years, I have never gotten as fat and unhealthy as I was back in 2003 when I last weighed over 300 pounds. For me, it is a proven fact that sugars and starches (carbs) are unhealthy over the long run.

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