Type 2 Nutrition

Sunday, March 27, 2016

Type 2 Diabetes, a Dietary Disease #321: "Energy In" at the Cellular Level

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Sometimes I can be pretty dense, or at least slow to comprehend something I have read or been told. A recent example is my understanding of...
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Sunday, March 20, 2016

Type 2 Diabetes, a Dietary Disease #320: “Total Fasting Reduces or Eliminates Hunger”

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As related in #319 here , to jump start weight loss I began a major change in my lifelong eating pattern. If successful, I am prepared to c...
Sunday, March 13, 2016

Type 2 Diabetes, a Dietary Disease #319: Losing Weight and Keeping It Off

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As anyone who has ever tried it knows, losing  weight and keeping it off is the  proverbial double-edged sword. When my doctor suggested I ...
Sunday, March 6, 2016

Type 2 Diabetes, a Dietary Disease #318: The Mystery of Antonin Scalia’s Sudden Death

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The headline in the LA Times/AP story :“ Scalia's death probably linked to obesity, diabetes and coronary artery disease, physician say...
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Sunday, February 28, 2016

Type 2 Diabetes, a Dietary Disease #317: Patient, heal thyself.

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“Physician, heal thyself” is a familiar proverb attributed to Luke the Evangelist (4:23). It was made famous, and is often quoted from the ...
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Monday, February 22, 2016

Type 2 Diabetes, a Dietary Disease #316: With so much carb restriction, what can I eat?

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If you’re newly diagnosed and you’ve investigated your choice of “treatment plans,” and you are willing to consider treating your conditio...
Saturday, February 13, 2016

Type 2 Diabetes, a Dietary Disease #315: “Carbohydrates and Sugars” Redux

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In “The Nutrition Debate,” the precursor blog to this series, column #31 (out of 305), “Carbohydrates and Sugars,” had many thousands of h...
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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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