Type 1 diabetes can be moderated substantially by a more proper diet that eliminates carbohydrates, and boosts animal fats, making the insulin more effective, and response more predictable, allowing monitoring to be reduced.
Monitoring is mostly a huge cash cow for manufacturers, with little benefit to the patient that is on a proper diet.
Perhaps you are confusing Type I with Type II.
That might be true with adults, but the diet of children is more difficult to control. I am well aware of the benefits of low carb diets, but keeping children on a strict diet is often difficult at best.
Diabetes runs in my husband’s family and none of them were over weight, all naturally thin and weight conscious.
Monitoring is mostly a huge cash cow for manufacturers, with little benefit to the patient that is on a proper diet.
Can you cite a source on this, or is this just an opinion you pulled from some nether region? Why would insulin be needed at all with no carbs to process? And just how is a child supposed to grow and play without the energy that only carbs can provide?
Well, you aren’t going to get any government panel to suggest that parents feed their kids more animal fats. Remember the reaction that the government types had to the Atkins diet?
The reason that the increased monitoring is important for kids is because parents cannot always control what kids eat.
Atkins originally developed the diet for diabetics. It works, but not for everyone.
YOu are very wrong about type 1.Yes following a diet is crucial but what you have siad is incoorect with type 1.It is a very delicate balance between activity and insulin.I know I’;ve been doing it for 40 years.
Type 1 diabetes is caused by the body’s failure to produce insulin. In type 1 the patient MUST take insulin to replace that which their body does not produce.
Type 2 is the one that is linked to insulin resistance.
May I safely assume you follow your own dietary advice?
I am going to agree with you that following a proper diet will help regulate your numbers even for Type I diabetes. However constant testing must be done to know what your numbers are as odd things can raise your numbers. My grandson is Type I and his numbers can fluctuate wildly from fruit, especially bananas. He is supposed to eat fruit- and being a growing boy he is supposed to eat a balanced diet to include more carbs than recommended for adults. His insulin has to be adjusted from meal to meal in order to know how much insulin he needs. I do NOT recommend that people stop testing or decrease testing. My grandson was not diagnosed until he was in a coma- I sure don’t want to ever go through that again.