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    Why I think LCHF doesn't improve beta cell function

    A low-carbohydrate high-fat diet increases weight gain and does not improve glucose tolerance, insulin secretion or β-cell mass in NZO mice https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC4775822/ edited to include link to another source of same article In prediabetic NZO mice, an LCHFD was...
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    T2s: What was your fasting BG this morning, and what did you eat yesterday?

    No breakfast Lunch: 75g dry spaghetti (wholemeal), 261 cals; home made Bolgnese sauce made with lentils, black beans ,beef mince, tomatoes, peppers , red onions. GUESS 250 cals. Low fat cheese on top 100 cal total 611 cals No supper Tea x3 + ss milk 75 cals Total 686 cals FBG 4.9
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    Hello all

    Your guide to reversing prediabetes with diet and treatments https://www.singlecare.com/blog/reversing-prediabetes/
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    Strange blood glucose pattern

    I'd ask the doctor or your diabetes nurse
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    Newly diagnosed and need help

    Reversing Type 2 Diabetes and ongoing remission Public Information Background DiRECT Life Without Diabetes Scientific Information The information on this page is for doctors and scientists. It includes slides on various aspects of the reversal of Type 2 diabetes as well as published papers...
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    Newly diagnosed and need help

    The low calorie diet or T2 diabetes very much does work if you start it early enough in the progress of your diabetes ie in the first 4 to 6 years approx. So much so that the NHS has adopted a version of it. Your nurse should absolutely know about that. It isn't easy, but as substantial weight...
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    All or nothing

    NOTHING should be put in the water supply except water IMO. However, though I have heard that many get horrid bathroom issues with metformin, if you don't get any side effects, or if they don't last, I can see no reason why anyone should be against taking metformin or any other drugs for T2. If...
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    T2s: What was your fasting BG this morning, and what did you eat yesterday?

    Breakfast: porridge 80g oats 266.4 cals,1x tbsp ground sunflower seeds 117 cals (20g) ss milk 155cals Lunch tuna& potato salad: 350g potatoes 252 cals, 100g tuna 109 cals, 2tbs olive oil 240 cals, 4 tbs mayonnaise (low fat), 133cals, capers & parsley 10 cals Olives 70 cals 814 cals No supper...
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    Please educate me on fats!

    Before taking advice on fats from anyone on here I would look first at their lipid profile to see how well their diet had worked for them. Just as before taking advice on diet or T2 I would look first at their BMI and FBG levels respectively.
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    Please educate me on fats!

    AHA Recommendation The American Heart Association recommends aiming for a dietary pattern that achieves 5% to 6% of calories from saturated fat. For example, if you need about 2,000 calories a day, no more than 120 of them should come from saturated fat. That’s about 13 grams of saturated fat...
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    Please educate me on fats!

    Although the body needs some fat (a very small quantity) it does not actually need any saturated fat whatsoever. I try to reduce mine as much as I can though I have found that difficult during pandemic as we can't always get the food we order. I had got used to having soy milk instead of dairy...
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    T2s: What was your fasting BG this morning, and what did you eat yesterday?

    thurs Breakfast peanut butter sandwich 300 cals Lunch: 75g dry spaghetti (wholemeal), 261 cals; home made Bolgnese sauce made with lentils, black beans ,beef mince, tomatoes, peppers , red onions. GUESS 250 cals. Low fat cheese on top 100 cal total 611 cals Supper: stewed apples with sugar and...
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    Please educate me on fats!

    Recent Insights Into Mechanisms of β-Cell Lipo- and Glucolipotoxicity in Type 2 Diabetes These studies demonstrated that acute and chronic elevations of FFAs by lipid infusion have differential effects on insulin secretion. Acute exposure enhances glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS)...
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    Please educate me on fats!

    "High levels of FFAs have been proposed as a determinant factor in β-cells apoptosis in different models [50]. Also, recent studies suggest this phenomenon depends on the degree of fatty acid saturation, rather than chain length, in addition to being considered a contributing factor for T2D...
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    I always wondered why I find ice cream so "moreish"

    Ice Cream May Target The Brain Before Your Hips, Study Suggests https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090914110533.htm "What we've shown in this study is that someone's entire brain chemistry can change in a very short period of time. Our findings suggest that when you eat something...
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    T2s: What was your fasting BG this morning, and what did you eat yesterday?

    Wed Breakfast 3 x wheatabix 201 cals + 300ml ss milk 155 cals total 356cals Lunch Chicken breast, 240 cal mashed potato, 385cals mashed carrot & swede 90 cals 2spoons kimchi pickle 10 cals 725 cals Supper none 3 x tea 75 cals total 1156 cals FBG 5.1
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    Beta cell failure in T2

    So you are claiming that calories from carbohydrates can make you fat, but calories from fat (& protein) don't??? I can't understand how anyone can still believe that in 2021! "The law of conservation of energy states that the total energy of an isolated system is constant; energy can be...
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    Beta cell failure in T2

    I think you are confusing the Hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamp technique which was NOT used in the Direct trial,- and is as you say normally used to measure insulin resistance- with the Hyperglycemic clamp technique. The latter is the one which WAS used in the DIRECT trial and is used to...
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    Beta cell failure in T2

    Anecdotes aren't "evidence" You need proper trials for evidence. Showing exactly how many cals from fats & carbs people ate, what their BMRs were, how much weight (if any) they lost, what their insulin secretion rates were eg C Peptide tests. All that sort of thing. I can't find any scientific...
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    Beta cell failure in T2

    He didn't only use OGTT he used insulin secretion tests as well.