Type 2 Nutrition

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

The Nutrition Debate #305: My Troubled Relationship with Food

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This is a hard thing to admit, but easy to see, if you know me. While I am still 110 pounds lighter than I was in 2002, I am 60 pounds heav...
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Saturday, April 11, 2015

The Nutrition Debate #304: “I am not making this up”

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“Novel differences in the glucose response to HP [higher-protein] vs. NP [normal-protein] breakfasts were observed and were influenced by t...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2015

The Nutrition Debate #303: Poor Dr. Walter Willett

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The Nutrition Source , not to be confused with The Nutrition Debate (teehee), is the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health’s website. ...
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Saturday, April 4, 2015

The Nutrition Debate #302: Another pill to prevent Type 2 Diabetes?

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As everyone who regularly reads this blog knows, I am  not  a pill pusher. I once was a big-time pill- taker , however, until I tried an al...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

The Nutrition Debate #301: Healthy Food Choices

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Unfortunately, this catch phrase has been co-opted and misused by our government’s “Dietary Dictocrats” to mean mostly things that  I  and ...
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Saturday, March 28, 2015

The Nutrition Debate #300: ‘Sugar’ in Food and Blood: a primer on carbohydrates

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I heard an ad on TV last night for a diabetes drug. The ad explains that, “It (the drug) removes some sugar from your body.” I asked (I thi...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

The Nutrition Debate #299: The Set Point: Why Maintaining Weight Loss is So Hard

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The excerpt from the Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology comment in The Nutrition Debate #297, “ Obesity in Remission ,” brought to mind a s...
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I was diagnosed a Type 2 diabetic in 1986. I started a Very Low Carb diet (Atkins Induction) in 2002 to lose weight. I didn’t realize at the time that it would put my diabetes in clinical remission, or that I would be able to give up almost all of my oral diabetes meds. I also didn’t understand that, as I lost weight and continued to eat Very Low Carb, my blood lipids would dramatically improve (doubling my HDL and cutting my triglycerides by 2/3rds) and that my blood pressure would drop from 130/90 to 110/70 on the same meds. Over the years I changed from Atkins to the Bernstein Diet (designed for diabetics) and, altogether lost 187 pounds. I later regained some but have managed to keep more than 150 pounds off for more than 20 years. As long as I eat Very Low Carb, I am not hungry and I have lots of energy.My goal, as long as I have excess body fat, is to remain continuously in a mildly ketogenic state, both for blood glucose regulation and continued weight loss. I expect that this regimen will continue to provide the benefits of reduced systemic inflammation, improved blood lipids and lower blood pressure as well.
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