Type 2 Nutrition

Sunday, February 26, 2017

Type 2 Diabetes, a Dietary Disease #369: “759 Secrets for Beating Diabetes”

I’m not joking; “759 Secrets for Beating Diabetes” is the actual title of a Reader’s Digest book. I saw it (on deep discount) in the vestib...

Sunday, February 19, 2017

Type 2 Diabetes, a Dietary Disease #368: My 2-Month, 20-Pound Challenge

I am in a unique situation at the moment. It is of my own making, and it is an opportunity to take sole responsibility for my actions. Ther...

Sunday, February 12, 2017

Type 2 Diabetes, a Dietary Disease #367: My Arm’s Length Perspective from Colombia

As I prepare to leave the beautiful city of Bogotá, after 3 weeks of studying Spanish, a few thoughts related to T2DM come to mind. This is...

Sunday, February 5, 2017

Type 2 Diabetes, a Dietary Disease #366: Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, a Secret Society

Surfing the web recently, I came across the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND). It turns out that for almost 100 years, until 2012, ...

Sunday, January 29, 2017

Type 2 Diabetes, a Dietary Disease #365: The Dual Pincers of Clinical Practice Guidelines

This article in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine begins, “Clinical practice guidelines abound. The recommendations con...

Sunday, January 22, 2017

Type 2 Diabetes, a Dietary Disease #364: “Prediabetes, in other words, is Diabetes”

This title is in quotes because…I think I cribbed it from Kelley Pounds, an RN, CDE, blogger and diabetes educator whose writings I always ...

Sunday, January 15, 2017

Type 2 Diabetes, a Dietary Disease #363: Type 2 Diabetes, a Lifestyle Disease

Okay, so which is it? A Dietary Disease or a Lifestyle Disease? It’s both, of course; diet is a part of Lifestyle. But why then is Establi...

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About Me

danbrown: 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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