Whey May Curb Effect of Carbs on Blood Sugar (helps diabetes)

WebMD ^ | July 29, 2005 | Jennifer Warner

[FairOpinion]

This sounds very encouraging.

[FairOpinion]

Ping your list?

[Wonder Warthog]

You wanta REALLY stablize your blood sugar?? Add a half-teaspon of common CINNAMON a day to your diet.

Instead of increasing insulin production, it decreases insulin resistance, so that the available insulin "works better". In addition, it also drops cholesterol and LDL's.

[battlegearboat]

Show me the whey!

[NYCRebublican]

I personally drink the whey every day. After a good workout there's nothing better. However it takes a while to find a drink with a taste you can stomach.

[FairOpinion]

Isn't whey something you could actually mix into the food?

[Stirner]

I can't taste whey at all, apparently. I buy Body Fortress chocolate powdered whey at WalMart, and it tastes to me like Nestle's Quik used taste when I was a kid. But my girlfriend cannot even be in the room while I'm drinking it. There's some smell or taste she senses that's beyond me.

[chilepepper]

you eat it with kurds, although i personally find cannabalism distasteful...

[spectre]

There are "cinnamon capsule supplements" available as well.

Whey protein drinks are fine, except that I found out large amounts of 'whey' nauseated me. Oops!

[Wonder Warthog]

"There are "cinnamon capsule supplements" available as well."

Yup. But I "like" cinnamon, so I just sprinkle it on my morning toast. I am AMAZED at how it has stabilized my blood sugar. Really incredible. This is real peer-reviewed double-blind clinical data (though the sample size is a bit small---only 60 people). You can also get the benefit by using a piece of cinnamon as a "swizzle stick" in your tea or coffee.

[radiohead]

There are "cinnamon capsule supplements" available as well.

I have been taking these for about a week. Don't notice any major changes, but cinammon isn't going to hurt me, so I'll give them a bit more of a trial.

I know people want to eat what they want. God knows I would love a big plate of spaghetti, but I know what that would do to my blood sugar, so I just don't eat it. By following Atkins, I have gotten off of insulin. I know I can only eat a certain number of carbs per day w/o things going out of whack. For other people, South Beach may work just as well.

All I know is, you have to control your carbs in some fashion. I'm not going to start eating high carb meals and following it w/whey (which my son uses for a health drink, so we've got it in the house). So your post-meal blood sugar is reduced by 21% - reduced from what? 400? 600? Better not to eat such high carbs in the first place.

btw-for people who only know about Atkins from the garbage science reporters on tv, you actually eat a ton of veggies and my protein ingestion isn't anymore than anyone else's. When I read his books, I was surprised to find that the real diet was so different from the way it is portrayed by the media. No wonder my endo approves.

[reformed_dem]

I know. I told a friend that I had lost 40 lbs doing Atkins. She told me that she was doing a "low-carb" not a "no-carb" like Atkins. WTF?

[radiohead]

not a "no-carb" like Atkins. WTF?

People look to tv for their info and have stopped reading.

I knew something was up when I went to my university diabetes center and they had Atkins posters all over the place. Lemme see, a bunch of endos and other specialists want to see you as a frequent patient because you're blind and an amputee due to uncontrolled diabetes or they want you to think about your food choices and be healthy and in control?

[I still care]

I've been having severe problems with my blood sugar- I was always hypoglycemic, and still have some episodes, but now I have been having high sugars - in the 200s. I also have liver function problems so they say they can't give me metformin.

This is all new to me, and I can't make sense out of all the stuff on the internet. Does anyone have any advice or can they point me to a good website?

[FairOpinion]

You can read up and maybe try on some herbal remedies, some of them may help. I make no claims, but here are some things you might read and decide for yourself.

http://www.flourishwellness.com/store/index.asp

http://www.hfn-usa.com/shop/cart.php?m=product_list&c=11

(on this one they have it under weight loss, but if you read more about the particular products, like carbo defense, banaba and salacia reticulata, they say it's for diabetes)


You can read the ingredients and do searches on them too.

Vanadium and chromium are also helpful.

Vanadylsulfate and chromium picolinate are the way I think you can buy them.

There are also a couple of new medications, the are injections, but subcutaneous, which supposed to help too. Talk to your doctor about them.


http://www.byetta.com/index.jsp

http://www.symlin.com/

You can also do some searches and go through what you get and see what seems informative.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=diabetes+herbs&btnG=Google+Search



Good luck!

[Fawnn]

I need to find out if Whey Low ( http://www.wheylow.com/ ) is a comparable whey supplement.

I've used/cooked with Whey Low, and unlike Spenda, Whey Low is all-natural and there's no aftertaste!

[krunkygirl]

save for later

thanks for posting this...

[Tall_Texan]

Ping for later reading.

[Maven]

I also have liver function problems so they say they can't give me metformin.

This is all new to me, and I can't make sense out of all the stuff on the internet. Does anyone have any advice or can they point me to a good website?

You want to read Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution - a great book for Type IIs, although Dr. Bernstein is himself a Type I.

Maven

[NYCRebublican]

Is it loaded with Sugar. I try and get the low-carb stuff. I throw some Splenda in to sweeten it up a bit. It's palatable but I wouldn't drink it out of thirst.