Another diet to do this is a low carb approach, coupled with intermittent fasting.
Sounds like somebody is trying to sell something...
Intermittent fasting works!
It’s all about diet. ALKAline
Crap. That didn’t work for me.
The bottom line is that there are more than one approach to take when dealing with Diabetes, but they involve doing something. If you do nothing, very little, or just rely on your medication, it's going to be chronic.
I disagree. Obesity is not the cause. It is a symptom of an unhealthy, carb-laden diet. The standard American diet: carbs and grains heavy with inflammatory vegetable oils is the direct cause of most chronic diseases.
The natural progression of our lives is not to be constantly sick. In a very real sense, we are what we eat.
Absolutely.
The Obesity Code - Dr. Jason Fung
This one really works: If it tastes good, you can eat it.
“New research has shown that if people achieve and maintain substantial weight loss to manage their type 2 diabetes, many can also effectively control their high blood pressure and stop or cut down on their anti-hypertensive medication.”
And new research has determined that water is wet. This has been common knowledge for years. For example, here is a study from 2007:
https://www.nature.com/articles/0803606
Big pharma will crush this report. A patient cured is a customer lost.
It’s even less complicated than that. “Low Carb” isn’t particularly realistic, in my opinion, depending on how one defines low carb. I managed to lose 50+ pounds of body fat and intermittent fasting. It isn’t really a “diet”, it’s technically sometimes called “time restricted eating”. I eat and enjoy pretty much the same foods as always, just a whole lot less of them.
One perspective somebody outlined made sense to me. A “normal” diet for a lot of people, has three main components, they typically:
Eat whatever they want
Whenever they want
However (quantity) much they want
Now this routine should look very familiar to someone who is way, way overweight. It was for me! The idea is to look at these three traits as “levers”, and try to push at least two of them every day.
Intermittent Fasting takes care of the “whenever” lever very well. In fact, people tend to lose body fat with intermittent fasting without changing what they eat or how much they eat, it’s that effective.
Dinner I eat pretty much what I want so long as it is not processed junk (like microwave frozen meals). In fact, I don't even have a microwave in the house anymore. Everything is cooked on the stovetop, oven or grill.
I've had some ups and downs over the next 18 years but never got much over 240 (I'm 6'3") and presently at around 225 or so.
No Type 2 diabetes whatsoever. Blood work is always excellent. No prescription drugs of any kind. I'll be 60 next year and in perfect health.
I'm not going to tell anybody what to eat but do recommend what not to eat: Soda pop, candy, chips, pies, cakes, ice cream, frozen "prepared" dinners, and fast food (which is basically frozen and microwaved to order).
bkmk
My dad got diabetes and hyoertension/high blood pressure in his late 50s.
Doc put him on 3 meds and said “you will have to take these the rest of your life”
Dad said “no I won’t”
Doc replied “yes you will”
Dad said...”you are not listening....this time next year I won’t need any of these neds”
Dad went on to lose about 40 lbs (he was never obese just a little overweight and dropped down to being super skinny) take up martial arts and cut back on sugars/simple carbs.
Next year he went to the doc who told him “your diabetes medicine and the other 2 pills seem to be keeping everything under control”
Dad told him “I haven’t taken any of that medicine in 4 months.”
This article taught me a great deal, and made a substantial difference in my diet, and blood pressure-
Potassium makes all the difference!
https://chiro.org/nutrition/ABSTRACTS/Natural_Approach_to_Hypertension.shtml
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“ALL foods are replaced with specially formulated low-energy food replacement products, such as soups, shakes and bars, which provide 800kcal– 1200kcal/day and all essential nutrients, vitamins and minerals.”
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I’ve never had the self-discipline to even change one item in one meal. But with a waist size of 33/34, doesn’t seem I can be THAT fat.