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Posted by Susan on January 11, 2009, 6:07 pm
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Some folks are just meant to be plonked without reading.
Susan
Common Sense wrote:
>> FOB,
>>
>> I was averaging about 100 grams of carbohydrates per day. Maybe If I had
>> stayed on the induction diet for 9 years I would not now have type 2. My
>> bad.
>>
>> I have been on meat and water since the discovery of my high numbers. My
>> BG readings are already improving. I realize it will take at least a
>> couple of months of this to straighten myself out.
>>
>> What my wife found is that after 3 months of meat and water, she could
>> pass a BG tolerance test. Meaning, that her BG would only rise to 130
>> with this test instead of nearly 300 when first diagnosed. I interpret
>> this change as a definite physiological improvement. Her health improved
>> dramatically. She had been showing just about every symptom that be
>> attributed to type 2. She even had shortness of breath and chest pain
>> with the slightest exertion. All that went away and now as I type this
>> she is outside shoveling the snow from our driveway.
>>
>> There are always trolls here (possibly peta crazies) who try to tell us
>> completely irrational things about the Atkins diet. Of course they have
>> zero experience with this diet but claim to be experts.
>>
>> I have been on Atkins for close to 10 years I think now. If I can only
>> be on it for 6 months, I must be dead now. My wife must be doubly dead
>> because she has limited her carb intake to below 50 grams per day.
>>
>> I put these crazies in the category of religious nuts, because their own
>> ideas about eating have become their religion and they are hell bent to
>> evangelize.
>>
>> These people need to create their own newsgroup where they can proclaim
>> their religion to the world.
>>
>> FOB wrote:
>>> How many carbs a day were you eating iun maintenance?
>>> Michael wrote:
>>> | My father came down with type 2 when he was 66 years old in 1986.
>>> | My wife was diagnosed in 1999. I went on the Atkins diet with her in
>>> | the same year. I did so in hope that I might dodge the type 2 bullet.
>>> |
>>> | A few days ago a realized that my hopes about this were unrealistic. I
>>> | measured my BG and it was 126 in the morning before eating. I then
>>> | ate a meal that comprised a total of 12 grams of carbohydrates. After
>>> | 20 minutes my BG rose to 157.
>>> |
>>> | I have no symptoms at this point, but it is clear that I have
>>> | developed the disease at the same age that my father did. 9 years of
>>> | low carb diet did not serve as a prophilactic.
>>> |
>>> | I have now stopped the maintenance diet and reverted to the induction
>>> | diet. This diet reversed the damage done by uncontrolled type 2 in my
>>> | wife. It also made her BG reading normal.
>>> |
>>> | So now I am stuck with the induction diet. I realize this is a great
>>> | improvement over the normal treatment which always results in a
>>> | downhill spiral. I don't want to eventually be shooting insulin. I'll
>>> | take the induction diet permanently before I want to start using a
>>> | needle.
>>> |
>>> | Disappointed in Michigan.
>
> Man, your life sound stressful. You need to do this and do that and
> check this and +++++ Well, my friend Diabetes was cured following this
> religious nut diet. And he was was not doing this and that and +++++
> Low carb is only a temporary relief. Be honest, I bet you are aging
> very fast. That how low carb people look to me.OLD
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