To assist health care professionals in advising
their patients about carbohydrates, sugar and health, the SRAS team of nutritionists and dietitians have developed a range of useful, evidence based resources.
Not exact matches
When Fuchs advises his
patients about lifestyle choices, «first and foremost I talk
about avoiding obesity, exercising regularly and staying away from a high -
carbohydrate diet,» he said.
For a healthy weight, I encourage
patients to get
about 150 grams of
carbohydrate a day; now, of course, this number gets smaller if you're battling diabetes, pre-diabetes, or PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome).
Like many
patients, Michelle initially seemed skeptical
about this high - fat, moderate - protein, low -
carbohydrate diet.
In 1924, a researcher named Haas stated that the response of
patients to a low -
carbohydrate diet in which gelatin «milks» were given at the noon and evening meals was «striking and almost uniformly good results were obtained over a period of
about ten years.»
The ideal glucose concentration used in Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT - for
patients with cholera or other diseases affecting the GI system whose lives depend on absorbing water and electrolytes, but who may not have access to an IV)-
about 7 grams of
carbohydrates per 8 ounces of fluid.
Alternatively, if a study reveals that something associated with a low fat diet, like statin usage, may help cancer outcomes, it tells us little
about what diet is optimal, and definitely does not signal that ketosis, fats, or even
carbohydrates are necessarily bad for cancer
patients.
There was a single sentence, almost an aside,
about elevations of insulin and how reducing
carbohydrates might be necessary in some
patients with hyperinsulinemia.