DUH!
Diabetes results from too much sugar in the blood past the point of what insulin can push to the muscles to be used.
Having too much sugar in the blood turns it acidic and the acidic blood breaks down cellular walks, which is why diabetics have a harder time clotting from bleeding and are more open to infection.
Basically, you can either delay diabetes or even reverse it by reducing your carbohydrates if you’re no longer as physically active as you once we’re.
I read the study. The average low carb diet in the study was a 3000 calories per day diet with 45.5 g of carbs.
The amount of carbs varied from person to person because they wanted to keep their weight constant for the study. Some persons took more calories to do that and some less. So carbs were kept at 6% of total calorie intake. 6% of the average 3000 calorie value is how I got the numbers above.
“Low-carb diet may reduce diabetes risk independent of weight loss”
IS THE SKY BLUE?
Look, pretty much every informed American now understands the going low-carb is healthy, and the lower the better (although going below 10 grams a day might be a bit too much).
Oh, yea, that is everyone EXCEPT the medical profession. They, pretty much, think you’re a nutcase if you tell them that you’re severely limiting carbs.
A relative of mine has gone on a special diet, medically monitored & adjusted (but not distinctly “low carb”), for several months now. Wit that diet she has gone from diabetic to pre-diabetic, off her previous diabetic meds and her numbers continue to improve.
It is not cheap. The medical part includes extensive and repeated blood tests that are part of tailoring and adjusting her diet specifically for her. Yes, along with the program of what she can eat has been adherence to restrictions on things she cannot eat (or drink). Knowing her history I know many of the “must nots” are part of her improvement. She has lost some weight but her blood-sugar improvement has been the greatest change.
Fiber Advance and Fiber Well Fit will do the job if taken after every meal.
One thing that those with diabetes can do is have entire days where they don’t take carbs at all.
Just meat and vegetables.
May? No significant sugar or carb intake, no source of blood sugar to spike. Easily (in many or most cases) controlled with pills instead of insulin.
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Duh. The FDA guidelines for carb consumption are literally killing people!
The rediculous lie that saturated fats cause heart disease!
Large quantities of simple carbohydrates (sugars) cause heart disease.
6.5 Months, lost 45lbs and off ALL Meds...
BP Normal, Glucose Normal and I’m spending $ on New Clothes not Meds
Regime is so dirt simple, 1 Meal a day (if I am hungry) try to stay under 30 carbs per day and I don’t eat anything that could spike my Insulin (Sugar, Starch, MSG, Grains, Root Veg etc)
I don’t count calories as a rule but they are about 2,000 per day if I was to guess, very simple meals made with Bacon, Ground Beef, Liver, Eggs, Hard Cheese, Cabbage, Lettuce, Celery and Brussels Sprouts. The only hard part is buying the smaller Steaks <8oz because it is easy to get too much protein.
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