How a Low-Carb Diabetes Diet Helps My Dad

I find it simply amazing that the mainstream media, allopathic medical practitioners, and so called scientists that produce incredibly myopic and flawed studies still blame “fat” for weight problems. Most highly publicized studies don’t even bother distinguishing between healthy natural sources of fat, including many saturated fats, and those that are unhealthy and manmade such as transfats in processed foods and many processed vegetable oils.

As soon as I started eating a high protein, high fat diet, and yes that includes healthy saturated fats from sources such as grass fed beef, free-ranged chicken, and coconut oil, I slimmed way down to the point to where some might even consider be to b a bit on thin side. It is very difficult to fill the caloric void left by carbohydrates, but moreover, my hormonal status improved significantly, i.e. improved insulin sensitivity and increased testosterone production. Most people don’t realize that weight gain is directly linked to hormonal status, and is not necessarily a function caloric intake. Since insulin is lipogenic, you must keep it in check by eating the right kinds of food. I still eat high a carb meal twice a week to replenish muscle glycogen, but I spread the meals out so as to stunt the metabolic effects.

Oh yeah… after being on the eating plan for about a month I had blood tests done to check my cholesterol and lipid profile. Serum cholesterol level had gone down substantially - well below the upper limit, notwithstanding the dramatic increase in dietary cholesterol associated with the increased protein intake, and my lipid profile was stellar. Yet another fallacy perpetuated by pharmaceutical companies and allopathic doctors, that there’s a correlation between dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol; if you’re restricting carbs and thereby keeping insulin levels low, there is no correlation. Of course the doctor could not argue with the results and encouraged me to keep doing what I was doing.

Other good books:

1. Natural Hormonal Enhancement by Rob Faigin

2. Metabolic Typing by William Wolcott and Trish Fahey

3. The Rosedale diet by Ron Rosedale, M.D. and Carol Colman

Doug Thomas of TX 1:50PM September 04, 2009

The economy...The FDA has turned a blind-eye for years about carbohydrates and failed us miserably as a result. Corn farmers in Iowa and wheat farmers in Kansas that produce the raw materials that makes all those tasty goodies that has us swimming in a soup of carbohydrate infested obesity. Those were and are the main focus of our supposed watchdog the FDA. Billions of dollars of your money could have been saved over the years as well countless deaths associated with diabetic complications...But, insulin is big business, heck just look around it is easy to see how many industries are tied to the lie. If anybody here thinks our government really cares about anything other than the economy..Well, you know the rest of the story. Dr. Atkins saved my life..Literally.

Curtis of MO 10:51PM June 25, 2009

Dr. Richard Bernstein created a method of counting crabs and adjusting insulin doses to match. Dr. Bernstein is a Type 1 diabetic and has been doing it for 40 plus years, and he's had the blood sugar of a non-diabetic for the entire time. He explains his solution in his book. You can read parts of his book for free online. Google his name and read what's available.

I'm a Type 2 diabetic who injected insulin and I started following Dr. Bernstein's advice in March 2008. I was off insulin completely in ten days. I haven't needed any insulin for six months. My blood sugar levels are between 75-85 all day long with no insulin! Low carb works for diabetes.

Jacky Treehorn of FL 12:12AM April 09, 2009

Once you start counting carbs, insulin adjustments need to be made. There's also an online course - FREE - that explains this

http://www.dsolve.com/

low carb all the way of TN 8:44PM April 08, 2009