Not exact matches
People
who eat more generous amounts of fruits and vegetables as part of a healthy
diet are likely to have reduced risk of chronic diseases, including stroke,
type 2 diabetes, some
types of cancer, and perhaps heart disease and high
blood pressure.
Before that I was forever having sugar cravings which stopped once I eliminated mainly wheat, which also made me overweight (proud to say I'm slim now, the size I was when I was 18 — not bad for a women
who is 47) from my
diet & added more protein as required by my
blood type.
In a National Institutes of Health study of 1,480 people with
type 2 diabetes, 24 % of those
who used insulin, 65 %
who used oral medications for diabetes, and 80 %
who controlled their
blood sugar with
diet and exercise said they tested their
blood sugar less than once a month.
Unlike people with
type 1 diabetes,
who need insulin injections to survive, those with
type 2 can sometimes keep
blood - sugar levels in the safe range with
diet and exercise alone.
Diabetes, high
blood pressure, heart disease, just to mention a few chronical diseases, run in my family, and up to now I am the only one
who have been following this kind of
diet, and, not surprisingly, I am the only one
who is enjoying good health at my 68, while both my parents died long ago from heart disease at an early age, when I was just fifteen, my younger sister is
type 2 diabetic, my older sister suffers from heart disease, having been submited to a tryple by - pass surgery and a angioplasty.
But I have a friend with
Type 1 diabetes
who swears that low carb high fat
diet makes it easier to control her
blood sugar.
While
diet alone may not bring
blood sugar levels entirely under control for people with
Type 1 diabetes (though I've heard of some instances where it apparently has), but it can apparently go a long way towards this, and markedly decrease the insulin requirements for people
who have the juvenile form.
This
type of
diet is also perfect for those
who want to maintain stable
blood sugar levels and gain muscle at the same time.
For example, she has seen dramatic results for patients with
type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol and high
blood pressure
who go on a whole - food, plant - based
diet.
I have seen how
diet can dramatically lower
blood sugars in
type 2 diabetics, and also help those
who are overweight lose weight.
Carbohydrate restriction helps people with
type 2 diabetes control their
blood sugar but people
who go on very low carbohydrate
diets generally aren't able to stick with them for long periods of time though.
The studies suggest that for
Type 2 diabetics
who transition over to a totally plant - based
diet, they need to keep checking
blood sugars every day for the first 3 weeks, but at the end of that time, they usually find they can either stop checking or check intermittently.
Sure you can get these «metabolic typology» books and «
blood type diet» books, but in the end it boils down to what suits YOU best, the more I see patients the more I have come to realise that there is book or guru
who can tell you with perfect accuracy what protein is best for you, it is only by trial and error and lots of experimentation that you will come to determine your own exact needs.
Patients with
type 2 diabetes
who go on a low fat whole plant
diet need to monitor their sugars closely as their medications can lead to low
blood sugar.
We, on the other hand, wanted to try
diet (it's just food), and sought a «natural» doctor,
who recommended the
blood type diet.
However, for obese people
who have
type 2 diabetes, a low - carb
diet seems to be more effective at improving
blood sugar control and reducing the risk factors for heart disease.
Getting even further into the science weeds, very - low - carb
diets reduce insulin levels in people
who often have elevated levels (hyperinsulinemia), which may help reduce chronic diseases like
type 2 diabetes, high
blood pressure, some cancers, and coronary heart disease.
In contrast, a striking increase in breast cancer incidence has been noted in migrants
who abandon traditional
diets (e.g., rice, vegetables, and soy foods) and adopt Western —
type diets high in meat, dairy products, and fat.Part of this risk may be related to eating fiber — depleted, fatty foods that increase
blood levels of estrogen or to an increase in estrogen production from fat cells.
Similarly, when people with
type 1 diabetes followed a carb - restricted
diet, those
who followed the
diet saw a significant improvement in
blood sugar levels over a 4 - year period (14).
Another study, published in 2011 in the journal Diabetologia, found that people with
Type 2 diabetes
who followed an extreme
diet of extreme
diet of just 600 calories a day saw their
blood glucose levels return to normal in about a week, and most were still diabetes - free three months after they stopped the
diet.
We would like to emphasize that ketosis is a completely physiological mechanism and it was the biochemist Hans Krebs
who first referred to physiological ketosis to differentiate it from the pathological keto acidosis seen in
type 1 diabetes.8 In physiological ketosis (which occurs during very - low - calorie ketogenic
diets), ketonemia reaches maximum levels of 7/8 mmol / l (it does not go higher precisely because the CNS efficiently uses these molecules for energy in place of glucose) and with no change in pH, whereas in uncontrolled diabetic ketoacidosis it can exceed 20 mmol / l with a concomitant lowering of
blood pH9, 10 (Table 1).