Posted on 12/16/2008 6:22:00 PM PST by neverdem
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For people who have type 2 diabetes, a low-glycemic index diet is significantly better than a high-fiber diet for keeping blood glucose levels down, researchers report
Glycemic index, or GI, refers to how rapidly a food causes blood sugar to rise. High-GI foods, like white bread and potatoes, tend to spur a quick surge in blood sugar, while low-GI foods, such as lentils, soybeans, yogurt and many high-fiber grains, produce a more gradual increase in blood sugar.
The current study in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association involved 210 individuals with type 2 diabetes treated with anti-diabetes medications who were randomly allocated to go on to either a low-GI diet or a high-fiber diet for 6 months. The main outcome measured was the change in (hemoglobin)A1C in the blood, which reflects glucose levels over the long term.
(Hemoglobin)A1C fell 0.50 percent on the low-GI diet compared with only 0.18 percent on the high-fiber diet, Dr. David J. A. Jenkins, from the University of Toronto, and co-researchers report.
Furthermore, levels of HDL ("good") cholesterol levels rose with the low-GI diet but they fell with the high-fiber diet...
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I have recently started taking Lyrica for my fibromyalgia. It was developed for the pain of diabetic neuropathy and shingles. It has made a dramatic change in my life. The pain is almost nonexistent. You may want to ask your Dr. if it is something that could help you.
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My husband was diagnosed two years or so ago. His doctor's nutritionist put him on a high carb, low calorie, low fat diet. He immediately started gaining weight and his blood sugar just kept going up. Finally, after a year of this nonsense, he went back to low carb eating. He's lost thirty pounds and his blood sugar is back to normal. He tests about three times a day. Thank goodness for Atkins.
I tried Lyrica for about 6 months. For a while I thought it helped a little. I did have some new sensation in my feet, although calling it an improvement would be a stretch - it included tingling, pain, and occasional cramps, so I finally gave up on it. Besides, it was not only expensive but hard to obtain insurance coverage for.
My sister has fibro, and will be entering a drug trial in the Kansas City area. I don’t know if it involves Lyrica.
“Are you aware that your brain only gets its energy from glucose?”
Yes. but the body has the ability to generate all the glucose you need from protein.
If gluconeogenisis is sufficient, then why is glucose stored as glycogen?
Thanks for all your efforts.
AFAIK glucose is only stored as glycogen in the presence of insulin. It is known that gluconeogenesis is sufficient because of the ability of various primitive people to live on low (or no) carbohydrate diets.
If the diet is poor in protein, you're SOL because you will catabolize your muscle.
I don't know if you've seen this from the open access journal "Metabolism & Nutrition"
"Reduction or elimination of medication -
A striking effect of carbohydrate restriction is reduction or elimination of medication. Table 1 shows results from Yancy, et al. [19] in which 17 of 21 patients with type 2 diabetes reduced or discontinued diabetes medication upon carbohydrate restriction. Similar results were found by Boden [8] and Nielsen [10,20]. Practitioners have pointed out the need to reduce medication in advance of undertaking a low carbohydrate diet [6,10,20,21] highlighting the power of carbohydrate restriction to bring about the same therapeutic effect as drugs."
That depends on peace and prosperity, conditions that the left always undermine. We were built to withstand famine, at least for a while. Thanks for the link. Two of the authors have an impressive series of articles on carbohydrate restriction. Enter volek js, feinman rd into the query box at PubMed. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez
It looks like I have a lot more reading to do. Thanks
Fructose, insulin resistance, and metabolic dyslipidemia
This last link explains how fructose metabolism leads to the synthesis of triglycerides.
Even the most restrictive of the low carb diets does not exclude carbs completely. And even if one did eat no carbs at all, the body can make what it needs for the brain from protein.
I am not recommending a no-carb diet. I think each individual who has a tendency toward diabetes has a level of carbs that will keep their blood sugar in line. The problem is, I think that level is quite low compared to the standard diet. I know it stinks. I love carb foods! In fact, I think carb craving is part of the diabetic profile.
In the 1920s, two men submitted themselves to a meat only diet for a year. As reported in JAMA on July 6, 1929, finished the year slimmer and with lower cholesterol. ~ from the book Dr. Bernstein’s Diabetes Solution (I didn’t type it word for word - just summarized).
http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/
Read the Dec. 14 post about “low carb bad for the brain?”
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The Adkins diet reduced my blood glucose from 230 to 135 in two weeks.The Adkins diet has reduced my weight twenty pounds in six months.
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