7 Ways to Maintain a Healthy Type 2 Diabetes Diet

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Patrick of TX 3:14PM April 27, 2010

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David of ME 10:22AM January 19, 2010

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Aboutrbxac of SD 1:27PM October 01, 2009

LOL, I'm certainly in the camp of the diabetics who don't follow the recommended guidelines! That's because I would like to live to see my grandchildren grow up, and I doubt I would do so if I ate the recommended ADA diet, which seems designed to kill people.
Luckily I have the internet, and have benefited from the experiences of *real* and savvy diabetics who know what it really takes to control this disease. I wish I'd had this information years ago. But I've learned now that it is the carbs that do the damage to my body. My diet consists of about 70-75% fat, 20-25% protein, and about 5% carbs. Plenty of my fat is the good, healthy saturated fat also, not the heart-deadly high-PUFA vegetatble oils. My diet consists mainly of organic meats, pastured eggs, organic butter, coconut oil, green veggies, raw cream. Fat is a diabetics good friend. If I had learned to eat like this years ago I might have avoided diabetes altogether.
But I have been eating like this for three years now, and have lost 80 pounds, gotten off my diabetes meds and my high blood pressure meds, and achieved normal blood sugars. I have to be vigilant, but luckily I *love* eating this way. My heart bleeds for diabetics who are trying to keep their fats lot, and eating "low fat" foods (most of which have far more added sugars to make them remotely palatable) and stuffing themselves with deadly servings of grains, and just getting sicker from it.

Debbie of NJ 9:23AM September 18, 2009

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Go to
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and to
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to get educated on evidence-based programs that work rapidly for REVERSING diabetes!
Also go to
http://www.drmcdougall.com/med_diabetes.html
to learn even more.
These programs use plant-based whole-foods nutrition and are much more effective than the American Diabetes Association guidance.

Bill Kleinbauer of CA 10:31PM September 15, 2009

Years ago the "Reader's Digest" repeated a news item that a drink of ' Fenugreek Seed Tea ' (not the kibble) half an hour before or after meals was a great help for diabetic patients.

Joseph D'souza 1:22AM September 15, 2009

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Kellie Glass RD, LD of KY 8:41PM September 14, 2009

As a type II diabetic if I ate the recommended 6 servings of grains per day I would be dead by now. Thanks ADA.

Donna Gicker of DE 1:14PM September 14, 2009

I'm confused. Are the posters saying it is vegetables are bad for a diabetic? I just talked my hubby into sticking with veggies for lunch rather than meat, since his cholesteral is high (AND my dad just had an artery cleared out--scary).

Karen of OH 1:14PM September 14, 2009

Why would eating less fat help people with type II diabetes? Fat does not elevate blood sugar levels at all no matter how much fat you eat.
Carbohydrates (sugars), not fats, are what need to be reduced in a type II diabetics diet so that bloog sugar levels stay low. But it seems as if Ms. Vitolins doesn't know that:
"Strive for two servings of fruits and three servings of vegetables per day, Vitolins suggests, and two servings of dairy and six servings of grains."
The above dietary suggestion is pure carbohydrate. A type II diabetic should strive to eat 14 servings of mainly sugar per day?
Worse, she then says that 45%-65% of the diet should come from carbohydrate - a nonessential macronutrient.
I thought the idea was to cure diabetes - not cause it. Now if a person switches from junk food to the above suggestion, that is a step in the right direction (save for the low fat part) but it is not, by any means, the cure for type II diabetes.
Ladies and gentlemen - if you have type II diabetes and want to rid yourself of it, rid yourselves of carbohydrates. Eat a lot of fat, adequate protein and throw in a salad a day for good measure.
Benjamin Franklin said: "An apple a day keeps the doctor away."
An = 1.
Eat very little sugar and you won't need the doctor. Ben was smart!

Fred Hahn of NY 4:03PM September 12, 2009