(Note: This is a Universal Fill-in Form. Just change the name of
the person and the carb food as appropriate.)
I know you’re busy, Max, but…your health is at stake, so pay
attention: You’re Pre-Diabetic, and in all likelihood, you’re will become a full-blown Type 2, unless you change what you eat. TYPE
2 DIABETES IS A DIETARY DISEASE.
Doctors treat Type 2 Diabetes by
treating the symptom: high blood sugar. They give you vapid
advice (lip service, really) to undertake “lifestyle changes,” like “eat less
and exercise more,” to lose weight! Then, they treat your symptom
(high blood sugar) with meds. They follow up by monitoring your blood sugars at
intervals to see that they are “well controlled,” by very poor Diabetic Association standards, and,
when they are not, they will add medications.
Their response, to treat you with
more meds (too little, too late, and all wrong!), will only
result in wearing out your pancreas, the organ that makes insulin in your body.
And when your pancreas doesn’t work anymore, you will have to inject
insulin. And you will probably die from one of the macrovascular
or microvascular complications of the disease.
Doctors should advise you
to “treat” the cause of Type 2
Diabetes: Insulin Resistance (IR). But the
dietary advice you will probably get from a medical doctor is likely to be just
plain wrong. If you follow it, you
do so at your own risk. For example, eating a “balanced” diet
contains much too high a level of carbs and will
result in your diabetes worsening.
They will also treat your disease to
much too lax a standard. They will regard your blood sugar as “well controlled”
at a level where it is doing you harm,
and your diabetes is worsening. Eating carbs raises blood sugars. To
repeat, if you don’t change what you eat,
your Type 2 Diabetes will progress, with increased risk for all the
attendant complications.
Insulin Resistance means that insulin
receptors in your cells are refusing to open to take up the glucose that is
being transported by insulin in your blood. Glucose is a fuel that your body
makes from digesting carbs. Result: your blood sugar rises. Solution: eat fewer
– many fewer, carbs. There is no
(zero) nutritional requirement for carbs? And your IR means you are
becoming, or have become, Carbohydrate
Intolerant. Insulin Resistance =
Carbohydrate Intolerance.
Your body needs some glucose (but NOT
carbs). Some
glucose – a very small amount – is so
essential to the body that the body has multiple ways to make glucose
from protein and fat. And your body does
need both protein and fat, and that is what you have to eat if you want to treat the cause of your
Pre-Diabetes. Repeat: Eat mostly protein and fat.
Hunger is the principal (but not the
only) biological driver of eating. It is both intrinsic and autonomic. Your
conscious will pales by comparison. You are a slave to your hunger – especially
if you are carb dependent. If you eat carbs at every meal, and in-between
meals at snacks, your body will become dependent on them, thinking that since
carbs are readily available, you can depend on them as an easy and quick source
of energy. Of course, in today’s world, carbs are abundant year-round, and ubiquitous. They are a quick and easy and cheap source of energy today, 24/7/365.
Physiologically, when your body
becomes dependent on carbs, your body blocks access to an alternate and totally complete source of fuel that everyone
has: stored body fat. Your body can’t access your dense stored energy
source because, in the Insulin Resistant person, an elevated insulin, accompanying
the glucose still circulating in your blood, prevents energy from body fat from
contributing to the body’s steady energy requirement (homeostasis). As a
Pre-Diabetic, because of your Insulin
Resistance, both your blood
glucose and your blood insulin are continuously elevated.
Translation:
soon after the carbs you last ate are digested, your body tells you that you
are hungry again! It tells you to eat
more. SOLUTION: After an overnight fast, just eat protein and fat for
breakfast. “No” carbs. That means: no juice, no cereal, no yogurt, or bread or
jelly. You will feel full. After a few days, your body adjusts and you will
never be hungry again at breakfast or in mid-morning. If you continue with
protein and fat for lunch (no carbs), you will not eat again until cocktail time.
And if you eat a small supper of mostly protein and fat, with a serving of
low-carb veggies, you will not have to eat again until breakfast. Within days your
fasting blood sugars will drop back into the “normal” range, and after a few
months your A1c’s will too. And your doctor will be happy because you lost
weight.
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