Type 2 Nutrition

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Retrospective #96: The Pregnant Bachelor’s Diet

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Do you have a big, hard, high beer belly? Or have been told that you are “Pre-diabetic” or have “high cholesterol” or “elevated blood press...
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Retrospective #95: My Doctor Died Last Week – An Appreciation

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My doctor died last week. [This is a 2013 Retrospective.] The cause was bad medical advice. An internist and cardiologist educated and trai...
Monday, May 20, 2019

Retrospective #94: “Eating Clean”

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The phrase “eating clean” came to my attention in early 2013 when a Singapore-based social media blogger named “Carey” posted a link to on...
Sunday, May 19, 2019

Retrospective #93: Is the Washington Post Biased?

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This is not about political bias. It’s about Joe Yonan, who in 2013 (when I originally wrote #93) was the Washington Post’s food editor. I...

Type 2 Nutrition #486: Too depressing not to write about.

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I have been haunted for the last few days by the memory of a luncheon my wife and I recently had at the home of friends. There were six of ...
Saturday, May 18, 2019

Retrospective #92: Why We Eat

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Why do we eat?   The simple answer is: We eat because we’re hungry, but this begs the follow-up question, “Why are we hungry?” It also req...
Friday, May 17, 2019

Retrospective #91: Very-Low-Carb Breakfasts (and a No-Carb Lunch)

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Chances are you will reject these meal suggestions out-of-hand. Especially lunch. That’s okay. All I can do is “put it out there.” It’s you...
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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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