Thank you bro!
Thank you bro!
Man alive, this is great. Time for me to catch up. Everyday we are dealing with her condition. Man is it stressful on her at times, and I feel helpless to being able to help. I've saved Dr. Bernards book/parts of it!
I'm glad you are getting a good healthy start with this too.
Granny Storm Crow, thank you for ALL the LINKS!!!
Wiggs,
I'll stay tuned for shore....I'm gonna start reading his book and check out the links too.
Thank you bro!
Hey Des....
Counting carbs has been the traditional method of fighting diabetes, but as always happens, new findings from new studies can change things. There is a book by this guy, Dr. Neal Barnard, and he sites new information from his studies and others, that prove to him the best way to fight diabetes is not by reducing carbs, but by reducing fat in your diet (animal fats are worst, but even vegetable fats need to be reduced).
Here is a link to google books, the entire book is not at this link, though, parts of it are missing:
http://books.google.com/books?id=-T...q=reversing+diabetes&cd=3#v=onepage&q&f=false
If you go to that link and scroll down to the chapter titled, "The Basics Have Changed," it will explain what this new info is.
Basically, he explains that process as this: Diabetes is a disease where the body has too much glucose in the blood stream, and this excess glucose, over time, is very damaging to all the body's components, resulting in all the familiar diabetic conditions. When there is excess glucose in the blood, the body responds by having the pancreas secrete more and more insulin to aid in the body absorbing the glucose. This makes the pancreas work overtime, and given a long enough time in this mode, the pancreas will eventually just stop due to over-work. That's when insulin injections are required.
The body's fuel is glucose, and carbohydrates get converted by the body into glucose. After conversion, this glucose goes into the blood stream, so it can get delivered to all the cells in the body for fuel. This glucose needs some help getting into the cells, though, and that helper is insulin, which is produced by the pancreas. Insulin basically acts like a key...and opens the cells doorways to let the glucose into the cell.
This is why reducing carbs has been the common way to fight diabetes...reducing carbs would seem to reduce the glucose in your blood stream. But, when reviewing the long term results from low-carb diets as a response to diabetes, the results are not good, most folks only slow the progression of the disease and eventually have to deal with all the nastiness of diabetes down the road a bit.
Dr Barnard's new studies show this: When a person has too much fat in their bloodstream (from high fat diets) it eventually works its way into the body's cells. These fat molecules that work their way into the cells cause a problem by clogging up the cell receptors where the insulin "key" fits, thereby negating the ability of the insulin to open the door for the glucose to enter the cell. When the glucose can't get into the cells, it remains floating around in the bloodstream, causing the pancreas to secrete more and more insulin....back to that vicious circle.
He feels that if you drastically reduce the amount of fat in your diet, the insulin will be able to do its job again, and the body's cells will start absorbing the glucose from the blood and naturally take care of the problem itself.
He describes it all much better and completely in his book. I've been on this diet for about a week and feel so much better.
I'm not sure if this low fat diet helps once the pancreas stops functioning, but I think he speaks to that in the book. I hope your wife gets better dude, you should definitely take a look at this book.
Man alive, this is great. Time for me to catch up. Everyday we are dealing with her condition. Man is it stressful on her at times, and I feel helpless to being able to help. I've saved Dr. Bernards book/parts of it!
I'm glad you are getting a good healthy start with this too.
Granny Storm Crow, thank you for ALL the LINKS!!!
Wiggs,
I'll stay tuned for shore....I'm gonna start reading his book and check out the links too.