Reducing carbs

[Sunhat]

I am well and truly confused..... I have been reading the accounts here on low carb diet..... eating more meat/cheese etc.... but surely by eating more meat/cheese the cholesterol goes up? I have not been put onto statins, nor do I want to go on them for as long as possible as my liver plays up with certain pills! I am diet controlled, my last HbA1c was 6.5 I do need to lose around 1.5 stone, I get out walking as much as I can. It is just the diet to eat or not to eat carbs that confuses me. :crazy: I can get confused very easily :lol:

Sunhat

 

[catza]

Hi Sunhat there was a new thread started a couple of days ago about this very subject. Have a look here ... http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes-forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=29073

Seems that a lot of firmly held beliefs need to be reconsidered. I know I found it all very interesting.

 

[xyzzy]

I am well and truly confused..... I have been reading the accounts here on low carb diet..... eating more meat/cheese etc.... but surely by eating more meat/cheese the cholesterol goes up? I have not been put onto statins, nor do I want to go on them for as long as possible as my liver plays up with certain pills! I am diet controlled, my last HbA1c was 6.5 I do need to lose around 1.5 stone, I get out walking as much as I can. It is just the diet to eat or not to eat carbs that confuses me. :crazy: I can get confused very easily :lol:

Sunhat

Sunhat, I have been on statins for 18 months trying to reduce my cholesterol. 18 months ago it was just under 8 I think. By the time I was diagnosed T2 4 months ago it had come down to 5. In the last 4 months I have intentionally and vigorously adopted a low carb HIGH FAT regime to control my blood sugars. I had a new cholesterol test done two weeks ago. The result? My levels have FALLEN well into the healthy range and I have INCREASED my good cholesterol. My DSN is so impressed she wants me to go tell the practice specialist diabetes doctor how the hell I have done that on a diet she was convinced wasn't going to work.

So now I have an HbA1c of 5.3% down 6% in 4 months and normal healthy cholesterol levels. I would call that conclusive not confusing.

For the kind of diet I follow read this.

http://blogg.passagen.se/dahlqvistannika/?anchor=my_lowcarb_dietary_programe_in

A good beginners guide to low carb regimes

http://www.dietdoctor.com/lchf

 

[AMBrennan]

It is true that eggs etc contain cholesterol, but saying "blood cholesterol" = cholesterol eaten" is another unhelpful oversimplification.