Type 2 Nutrition

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Retrospective #44: Joslin Clinic Fights Back (The Blind Leading the Blind)

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The Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston is “the world’s largest diabetes research center, diabetes clinic, and provider of diabetes education...

Retrospective #42: “Unsafe Fats”

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While surfing the net one day in 2012, an ad for “Beyond Diet” had a clickbait banner that read, “5 Foods to NEVER Eat.” It worked. I clic...

Retrospective #41: Sugars and “Unsafe Starches”

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At dinner last night with my brother in Florida, he told me that a doctor friend had recently told him, “A glass of orange juice was one of...

Retrospective #39: Fad Diet or Diet Trend?

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Edgy diet plans are often described as fads, and they usually are. The Stillman Diet, 50 years ago, was high protein, 8 glasses of water, a...

Retrospective #38: The Perfect Health Diet

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“The Perfect Health Diet is more than just a diet – it is a program for perfect health, “say Paul Jaminet, Ph.D., and Shou-Ching Shih Jami...
Monday, March 25, 2019

Retrospective #37: Therapeutic vs. Prophylactic Dieting

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A prophylactic diet is designed to lose weight and to prevent the health consequences of weight gain: the advent of disease. A therapeuti...
Sunday, March 24, 2019

Type 2 Nutrition #478: Why I still use stevia.

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While the debate raged about artificial sweeteners, I always took comfort from the knowledge that the sweetener I used, in coffee and iced ...
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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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