“Keto diet is actually the proper human diet. Sugar is slow poison.”
It makes total sense. So many people eat so much processed JUNK, don’t know HOW to cook for themselves or read a label to find all of the ways they sneak sugar and salt into just about everything.
Why, it’s almost as if Big Food and Big Med are working together to keep us fat and medicated! ;)
Agree. I have all 4x my kids in the kitchen and teach them how to cook. It’s a life skill you will truly use your entire life. Anytime you can take fresh ingredients and make a meal, you’re 100% better off than any pre-made processed crap you’ll buy.
And I especially make it a point to my boys, if you learn to cook, and cook well, you’re already 1 BIG step ahead of the pack when it comes to impressing a girl. It sets you apart!
Salt.
After a close relative ended up in the Cardiac ICU for a couple of days with congestive heart failure - nearly dying before my eyes at one point - I went grocery shopping. I was gone for 2 HOURS looking for things the person could eat.
Salt is in almost EVERYTHING. There is salt in Jello. Of course, it’s a preservative, but between the (something)-ose, actual sugar, and salt, you have to look and maybe end up eating 5 things for the rest of your life. For salt, for example, we’re talking a pinch of salt per day/400 mg.
I eat little salt now, but even the salt substitutes are bad for you, or so I’m told.
I think they are. Eldest is a Type 2, he works long hours, and fast food became a way of life. Took off about 75 lbs when he first went on his Type 2 diet and Metformin.
While he’s up in weight a little it’s still not under good control as the Metformin stopped working as well as it should.
I have the opposite issues, Osteoarthritis drugs Killed my GI tract, and the last 3 yrs has been H. Hand surgery that didn’t go right, and then dental that had 2 surgeries plus the 10 teeth pulled in the lower jaw which had to be re-sculpted. 9 Months no lower teeth. Gastropresis is NOT a nice GI health issue as it pushes you toward Type 2. Last month I hit 6.2 A1C1. It will be 7 by the time I see the Endo again in Oct. The lower denture still doesn’t fit, won’t hold, and I can’t digest fiber foods, I’m on what they call a soft diet, bread, pasta, eggs, soft meats. Veggies don’t digest. Seeded fruits are out Diverticulosis and GERD.
Neither diet can be reconciled I’ve tried, as I like most of the food GP took away. I hate ER trips. SIBO infections. And the 25 lb weight gain doesn’t help the bad degenerative spine. Walk I’m told, Neuropathy makes it very painful, that comes from the crushed C5/S1. And the CDC idiots took away the only pain medication I can take. 14 bad reactions to Neuropathy drugs. I gave up after the 2 A Fib trips to the ER. I tired of being constantly hungry and in pain.