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Not sure why you're being downvoted. This is a perfectly valid approach to managing type 2 diabetes. My mother is a type 2 diabetic and has been on a diet in
by groovy2shoes 13y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. This is a perfectly valid approach to managing type 2 diabetes.
My mother is a type 2 diabetic and has been on a diet in which she consumes less than 30 grams of carbohydrates every day. To put that in perspective, the recommended daily consumption of carbohydrates is about 300 grams. The vast majority of American adults consume more (sometimes much more).
She cannot eat bread, pasta, fruit, potatoes, or even carrots, among other things. Surprisingly, some forms of sugar substitutes can also raise blood glucose levels. But she can eat many kinds of vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy products. Just no sugar, and no carbs.
The diet has been very successful. She barely needs insulin anymore, and she's at the lowest A1C level she's ever had -- even lower than when she was taking lots of insulin. As a bonus, she's returned to a healthy weight.
- penguindev 13y agoThat's outstanding. I wonder if her doctor recommended that or she found out herself? A lot more doctors need to get educated ... or at least less indoctrinated by the drug companies. I've lost 30lbs myself in the last year being on a low carb high fat diet [with no exercise whatever]. It's miraculous. Diabetes and alzheimers run in my family, so I'm fairly certain I'll never eat bread/pasta/chips again.
- groovy2shoes 13y agoIt's just something she decided to do. Her doctor was more than happy to just keep pumping her full of insulin. But as it turns out, diabetics can be successful avoiding carbohydrates the same way lactose intolerants are successful avoiding dairy and people with peanut allergies are successful avoiding peanuts. It just makes sense, really.