| There is a continuous debate over whether people | | | | diets, especially for diabetics. We know that dietary |
| with type 2 diabetes benefit from low carb diets. | | | | and body fats are a major culprit in the development |
| Naturally, the friends of the drug makers say no, but | | | | of adult onset (type 2) diabetes. This has been |
| the low carb diet makers say yes. If you have | | | | shown in experiments by Dr. Anderson at the |
| diabetes or are predisposed to developing this | | | | University of Kentucky. Healthy young men |
| disease then you had better decide now.But | | | | developed diabetic symptoms within two weeks on a |
| how?This is easy. There are two things (yeah, and | | | | high fat diet, whereas a control group on high sugar |
| even a third!) you need to bear in mind. Diabetes is | | | | diet did not show a single symptom after eleven |
| not caused by carbohydrates, so don't blame it on | | | | weeks in the experiment.Given the popularity of the |
| the carbs. Diabetes is the inability to metabolize carbs | | | | Western diet today the whole world is now more at |
| (glucose) properly.Fat intake, on the other hand, is a | | | | risk for developing diabetes. You've got to be strong |
| big part of the complex lifestyle conditions that cause | | | | to resist what floats on the air from a fast food |
| type 2 diabetes.The drug industry does not want to | | | | kitchen nowadays, especially if you spent most of |
| die and the diet designers surely want to live - they | | | | your life eating that stuff. It's tantalizing.But diabetics |
| strive for economic survival, and our financial | | | | who have this kind of strength have been able to |
| patronage is their source of life.Now, did you hear | | | | come off their medication and insulin shots. It is |
| the ADA saying they don't really disclaim the benefits | | | | nearly impossible to live the rest of your life on low |
| of low carb diets? Yes, everyone admits that fewer | | | | carb food. Many of these diets have been shown to |
| carbs per meal will nean less carbohydrate to spike | | | | have too much fat and protein content, |
| your blood glucose level after a meal.Low carb | | | | anyway.Limiting your carbs means lessening your |
| cannot be long-termWho wants to spend the rest of | | | | calorie intake. But your energy has got to come from |
| their lives on a low carb diet? Who can, anyway? No | | | | somewhere. Given what we know about the effects |
| one. It's a temporary solution. A kind of "quick | | | | of excess fat and excess protein metabolism, every |
| fix."Even though proponents of the low carb diet say | | | | diabetic (actually, everyone) would do better staying |
| "many people are essentially cured of their type 2 | | | | away from these low carb, high fat, high protein |
| diabetes by low carbohydrate diets," the ADA | | | | options.It seems clear that the safest option in the |
| refuses to endorse the low carb option. They say | | | | long term is the most natural: a complex high |
| that they prefer to endorse a diet that people can | | | | carbohydrate, high fiber diet with regular (daily) |
| live with long-term.The benefits of a high fiber high | | | | exercise. It takes a lot of work, but it works.And it |
| carbohydrate diet has been shown in research | | | | works for a long, healthy, long time. Ask the |
| repeatedly. If the type of carbohydrate is right, you | | | | Okinawans and other groups who don't know what |
| can eat a whole lot without suffering the adverse | | | | the word "retirement" means. I'll watch the low carb |
| effects. Refined or processed foods tend to elevate | | | | debate, but I want to be around until the truth is |
| blood sugar levels quickly compared to high fiber | | | | clear - I will choose high fiber high carbohydrate |
| content carbs.Problem. Problem. Problem with low | | | | foods and build muscle while the argument grows. |
| carbsThere is usually some problem with low carb | | | | |