Is the Atkins diet good for people with Diabetes????!


Question:

Is the Atkins diet good for people with Diabetes????

can it prevent diabetes or cure it (can you even cure diabetes, or is it something you'll have forever) ????

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3 weeks ago
I'm not actually interested on going on the diet... and i dont have diabetes.
I'm doing a case study on the diet and heard it helped diabetes. Obviously not!
Oh and Dr.Atkins died from slipping on ice and getting a brain heamorrage. (spl?)


Answers:

I am not a doctor, so take this or leave it. But with type 2 adult onset DM YES YES YES YES YES YES YES do atkins. Call it whatever you want but do it. Eat as much as you want, but only eat things that will not raise your blood sugar.

My glucose always ran 370+ and I was on all sorts of meds with a doctor wanting to put me on insulin. ( I refused) Atkins is wonderful. Absolutely wonderful for DM. A highfat diet with little or no sugar cured the disease in my life. My glucose now runs like 65-75 almost all the time.

Once your learn how your body digests food and stores fat you will be able to control your blood sugar by a ketogenic diet unless you have the DM that is caused by an auto immune disease. IT DOES WORK! As God is my witness it really does work.

I eat mostly highfat foods like olives, eggs, butter, cream, pork with fat, beef with fat, smoked salmon, macademia nuts, creme cheese, avocados etc. I love boiled eggs with butter. I love cream. It really is my favorite food. I whip it and put splenda in it and either freeze it or eat it like whipped cream. You can mix it with cream cheese and make a crustless cheese cake. Eggs are one of my favorite foods make into omelots with salsa. You can also eat any veggies that are not root veggies, some fruits like avocados, melons, and berries. I don't eat grains except a few flax seeds on scrambled eggs.

I know some people make noise about Atkins and cholesterol, but it is simply not true from my experience or my husbands. My triglycerides were 44 last time they were checked. My total cholesterol was around 178. Atkins solved almost every health problem I had except a congenital problem with a heart node. But, I can live with that. I never had to count calories and ate all I wanted to eat. I lost weight so fast on that plan, yet probably ate 2500+ calories a day. I love it.

Look up and research a ketogenic diet. It does work. And yes atkins did die in a fall. He did have viral cardiomyopathy from a virus he caught on a mission trip, but he died from a fall. And his food choices had nothing to do with the heart issue.

I just know that I know that I know from my own personal experience that a ketogenic diet will solve the adult onset form of DM. I never bought the Atkins "Treats" or shakes or anything else. I just ate meat and fat and low sugar veggies and very few berries. It works.

I just wanted to clarify that when I say cream I mean heavy whipping cream. I buy it in quart containers from the store or by the gallon from my local farmer. I go through about 3-4 quarts a week for whipped cream products, cocoa, lattes etc. Don't use the coolwhip stuff. Even the sugar free coolwhip is simply pure sugar. You want the highfat heavy cream so your body will not convert it to sugar or raise your blood sugar. Fat is only converted to sugar in your blood stream at about 10%, so if you eat mostly all fat, your blood sugar plunges. Protein is converted at around 40%, but carbs are converted at 100%. That is why you avoid them.

I heard Dr. Atkins say once that if you always keep your blood sugar below 100 it is physically impossible for your body to store fat. That means after you eat if your blood sugar doesn't surge you will not gain weight. So if you eat all fat, it can't surge. I just know it really worked for me. I lost 150lbs in less than 6 months and that was many years ago. I have kept it off with atkins.




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