Posted on 03/06/2008 2:52:56 PM PST by blam
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Bush’s fault!! If we had Al Gore as president like on that episode of Family Guy we’d have discovered this with the ultra efficient and enterprising system known as Universal Health Care.
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So I CAN eat six boxes of Girl Scout cookies a day?!
My husband has type 2 diabetes. He was taking THREE kinds of pills to lower blood sugar, plus a pill for blood pressure. Then he went to a specialist in Kansas City and they gave him a strict diet. 20 grams of carbs a day max. So he can have all the chicken, steak, spinach, zucchini, asparagus, etc that he wants. Pretty much no rice, flour, candy, cake, sugar, pie, wheat, pasta, etc. His blood sugar dropped to normal in 24 hours WITHOUT the pills to lower the blood sugar. I can see that it could be a digestive problem. I am going to look into this. Like his body isn’t digesting things right. he is 57, active, and VERY thin.
Just dang. The more we know about the design of these things we occupy called the human body, the more complicated they seem. It’s pretty cool, really.
Gee it would be great if this would work for my husband. Right now no nachos, no tacos, no homemade bread, no biscuits. Our diet is VERY limited.
Be worth discovering if these substances interfere with the chemistry at the upper end in some way.
I can usually lower my blood sugar to normal levels through the simple expedient of eating only nuts, cheese, meat and yoghurt for a week or so. Doesn't bother me a bit either.
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But shopping at the grocery store is so quick and easy now ~ first the meat counter, then the canned fish, find some walnuts (for the crunch factor), maybe a head or two of lettuce (for lunch you know), and black rice.
In our case it isn’t about weight control. He already lost the weight and he is super skinny now. Looks great. Didn’t need to lose much, was never fat. But he is so thin now. But if surgery could save his life that would be great. I know that something in his body has gone hay wire and caused this. He developed diabetes about five years ago and was active and fairly thin then too.
I think you are right. About the chemistry and how it reacts to the drugs, and even the foods. yes he can have meat and nuts and yoghurt but it seems that if you can’t eat wheat, there has to be a reason. Afterall, wheat is the Staff Of Life.
Yes that is true, Grocery shopping is just to the meat and fish and green veggies. But we always cook everything from scratch, never went for the mixes. But he can’t have ANY rice either, not even black rice. 20 grams of carbs a day doesn’t allow for any rice. Hopefully eventually he can have the sprouted grain bread again, but none for now. We keep walnuts, and almonds, and cashews, etc. on hand all the time. Cooking is VERY complicated now because we are gourmet cooks and we can’t use ANY of our old recipes. Cutting out ALL flour, rice, sugar, all grains, flour, pasta, potatoes, etc., is hard to do. We bought all new cookbooks. We even made homemade BBQ sauce the other day. It was quite good actually. Tasted more like a spicy Mexican sauce than BBQ sauce. He and I eat same food, and his blood sugar (before the new diet) would be 300 and mine would be 70.
But...but...this can’t be! Healthcare in this country is deteriorating, greedy drug companies and doctors...
BTW I'm going to have gallbladder surgery for my gallstones. Will have more details next week.
For years now, we have only gone around the outer perimeter of the grocery store. No need to go up and down the aisles.
Produce, dairy, meat, done.
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