XPOST The Cure For Diabetes?
Great article, read all the pages:
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http://www.menshealth.com/cda/article.do?site=MensHealth&cha nnel=health&category=other.diseases.ailments&conitem=4a935e4 e40fae010VgnVCM20000012281eac____&page=1
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I read the article, aimed at type II's.
In principal I agree with the article, everyone I know of has abandoned the carb exchange in favor or carb counting. When I started my original diabetic diet, I lost a lot of weight and kept my carbs under 100 which horrified my diabetic nurse educator and the dietitian because they felt it was too low. And in three weeks I was off the metformin. Go figure!
There is a book called "28 days to Diabetic Control" which teaches how to get your blood sugar numbers under control. The problem as I see it for most diabetics is that we really don't know how to use the monitor as a TOOL for better health instead of just using it to see what our numbers are out of curiosity. Once you learn how to use it as a tool to REDUCE your numbers, you can get them well controlled. Currently my A1C is 5.0 to 5.2 and I'm still aiming for lower. I agree with the doctor in the article fully: don't eat those foods that cause your blood sugars to go up. You are stupid if you do! Let's get real here folks.... if you want to get your numbers down, chose foods low in the glycemic index, and that means few carbs and fewer grams of sugar. And you need to do it in a way that preserves your nutritional levels and allows you a good variety of foods for good health. Your body will tolerate few carbs for a short period of time, but it can't tolerate long periods of poor nutrition... and there is some evidence that being overweight means that you are probably already poorly nourished.
I'm off medication, but my weight remains the same, therefore I'm doing the WLS anyway. However, I do take exception to one thing. THERE IS NO CURE FOR DIABETES. As the article states, once your beta cells are depleted it is too late. Most of us have already lost 80% of our beta cells once we are diagnosed with diabetes. 80%! That means we are living with only 20% for the rest of our lives, and those keep dying anyway. Diabetes is insidious and progressive!
Once you have WLS your blood sugar numbers improve and you probably will go off of medication, but those beta cells will never repopulate. NEVER. That means that you will have to take care of what you have got, and keep the numbers tightly under control for the rest of your life. Better numbers means a better life and fewer complications, but you are never, ever CURED.
In principal I agree with the article, everyone I know of has abandoned the carb exchange in favor or carb counting. When I started my original diabetic diet, I lost a lot of weight and kept my carbs under 100 which horrified my diabetic nurse educator and the dietitian because they felt it was too low. And in three weeks I was off the metformin. Go figure!
There is a book called "28 days to Diabetic Control" which teaches how to get your blood sugar numbers under control. The problem as I see it for most diabetics is that we really don't know how to use the monitor as a TOOL for better health instead of just using it to see what our numbers are out of curiosity. Once you learn how to use it as a tool to REDUCE your numbers, you can get them well controlled. Currently my A1C is 5.0 to 5.2 and I'm still aiming for lower. I agree with the doctor in the article fully: don't eat those foods that cause your blood sugars to go up. You are stupid if you do! Let's get real here folks.... if you want to get your numbers down, chose foods low in the glycemic index, and that means few carbs and fewer grams of sugar. And you need to do it in a way that preserves your nutritional levels and allows you a good variety of foods for good health. Your body will tolerate few carbs for a short period of time, but it can't tolerate long periods of poor nutrition... and there is some evidence that being overweight means that you are probably already poorly nourished.
I'm off medication, but my weight remains the same, therefore I'm doing the WLS anyway. However, I do take exception to one thing. THERE IS NO CURE FOR DIABETES. As the article states, once your beta cells are depleted it is too late. Most of us have already lost 80% of our beta cells once we are diagnosed with diabetes. 80%! That means we are living with only 20% for the rest of our lives, and those keep dying anyway. Diabetes is insidious and progressive!
Once you have WLS your blood sugar numbers improve and you probably will go off of medication, but those beta cells will never repopulate. NEVER. That means that you will have to take care of what you have got, and keep the numbers tightly under control for the rest of your life. Better numbers means a better life and fewer complications, but you are never, ever CURED.
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