Diabetes: can you really eat to beat it?
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Diabetes: can you really eat to beat it?
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Re: Diabetes: can you really eat to beat it?
#2The article is about Type 2 diabetes. Type 1 diabetics are unable to manufacture insulin. No amount of green tea and yoga change that.
Re: Diabetes: can you really eat to beat it?
#3It's estimated that 60% of type-2 diabetics would no longer be affected if they simply lost weight and got down to a healthy BMI.
Obese Type-2s should really be called "Type F" because it's not fair to people who didn't self-inflict their condition.
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#4actually this worked for me, I had high blood sugar and high blood pressure and I solved both with low carbs diet and eating healthy. It's like the article say, eating healthy will help no matter what but yeah it's hard to stop eating junk.
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#5It's estimated that 60% of type-2 diabetics would no longer be affected if they simply lost weight and got down to a healthy BMI. Obese Type-2s should really be called "Type F" because it's not fair to people who didn't self-inflict their condition.
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#6The article is about Type 2 diabetes. Type 1 diabetics are unable to manufacture insulin. No amount of green tea and yoga change that.
Came here to ensure that was discussed. It's really kind of a shame that there's as much confusion about the types of diabetes as there is. I've taken to referring to them, in an EXCEEDINGLY reductive manner, as "autoimmune diabetes" and "cheeseburger diabetes."
My brother has autoimmune diabetes (aka Type 1). We give to and volunteer with the JDRF as a result, because its mission is laser focussed on type 1 related research. I do not give to or support the ADA, because their efforts are really diffuse and seem to focus more on the cheeseburger type.
Re: Diabetes: can you really eat to beat it?
#7It's estimated that 60% of type-2 diabetics would no longer be affected if they simply lost weight and got down to a healthy BMI. Obese Type-2s should really be called "Type F" because it's not fair to people who didn't self-inflict their condition.
Not sure what fairness has to do with it. But then again, it's probably too much to expect common sense from people who love monads.
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#8It's estimated that 60% of type-2 diabetics would no longer be affected if they simply lost weight and got down to a healthy BMI. Obese Type-2s should really be called "Type F" because it's not fair to people who didn't self-inflict their condition.
Oh, completely ignoring the fact that most people who get Type-2 diabetes are genetically predisposed to it and it can also be caused by things like repeated bouts of pancreatitis and EPI.
But no, let's shame everyone who is fat for being overindulgent.
Maybe having diabetes wouldn't be stigmatized so much if so many Type-1s didn't participate in it as well.
(Non-diabetic here, I have no dog in this fight.)
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#9actually this worked for me, I had high blood sugar and high blood pressure and I solved both with low carbs diet and eating healthy. It's like the article say, eating healthy will help no matter what but yeah it's hard to stop eating junk.
high carb diet works too.
there's no junk food.
there's nothing junky in a hamburger. on the other hand, it is unhealthy if you eat hamburger every day or so.
http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/myths/
here's american diabetes association recommending a normal healthy high-carb diet with low GI foods.
it is also advised, funnily, that fruit consumption shouldn't be restricted.
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#10Michael Mosley's documentary, ”Eat, Fast and Live Longer” (about the health benefits of calorie restriction) is also interesting in the context of this article:
the plank (an exercise to help lose excess fat round the stomach)
This is incorrect. The plank is an excellent exercise for building core strength (much better than situps), but it does not help lose excess fat around the stomach more or less so than any other exercise does.