Type 2 Nutrition

Sunday, September 9, 2018

Type 2 Nutrition #449, “I thought salads were good for you.”

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Don’t get me wrong. Salads are okay, but maybe not for the reasons you thought. I recently began mentoring a newbie who was diagnosed a few...
Sunday, September 2, 2018

Type 2 Nutrition #448: How “science” gets it wrong

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A “basic” scientist proffers an hypothesis and then attempts to prove it wrong. If by experiment it is unable to be proven wrong, it can th...
Sunday, August 26, 2018

Type 2 Nutrition #447, What’s happening to medicine today?

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Lots of things are happening to medical practices today, and at an accelerating pace. I remember 40 years ago when my GP quit medicine, giv...
Sunday, August 19, 2018

Type 2 Nutrition #446, “Docs’ Beliefs” prevail in 14 of 17 Primary Care practices

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Thank goodness for the headline in this Medscape Medical News story by Miriam E. Tucker: “Docs’ Beliefs Guide Prescribing of Glucose Monit...
Sunday, August 12, 2018

Type 2 Nutrition #445: Are doctors in denial?

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When a doctor tells me that I am “no longer diabetic,” as a few have informally told me, are they misinformed about what causes type 2 di...
Sunday, August 5, 2018

Type 2 Nutrition #444: “Symptoms are too late”

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A while back on Maria Bartiromo’s “Mornings with Maria” on Fox Business, a doctor was asked, “What are the symptoms of pre-diabetes?” He an...
Sunday, July 29, 2018

Type 2 Nutrition #443: The 1-percenters

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A while back, on a nutrition website intended for the cognoscenti, I watched a TED talk that a member had recommended. The talk was said to...
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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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