Listen to this. Its hard to believe but avocado is a beneficial fat along with, olive oil, coconut oil (bulk fat important here so cheapest works besst), unrefined palm oil. These ramp up your metabolism and burn fat. Dr Jason Fung has some articles on this line, canadian chinese consultant kidney specialist got fed up not helping his mainly diabetic dialysis patients so researched and realised good fats will feed the body and carbs should be minimal for diabetics as carbs require insulin. Since leaving hospital for sepsis, GBS when medics doubled my insulin to reduce dangerous sugar levels and failed by the way I have adopted Dr Fung's intermittent fasting and lost 15KG in the last months with reduction in blood pressure also caused by insulin overdose. Hospital could not reduce BP either.
Rapeseed or other vegetable oils like olive all oxidise quickly on heating to trans fats that block up the insulin mechanism and cell membranes and cause blood vessel wall damage ready for atherosclerosis.
Fry with stable animal fats, lamb, beef or vegetable like coconut that can be recycled more than once. Cheap coconut oil has little taste but frys much hotter for crisper chips that are not particularly coconutty. Best avoid frying.
I have been intermittent fasting for the last few months. As I always miss breakfast I miss my insulin jab and don't usually eat until dinner time at 2pm. I don't seem to get hungry but if I did a glass of water or coffee fixes it. Being busy during this fasting time helps burn fat which is what intermittent fasting does and keeps my mind off food. I eat a dominantly fatty meal, 3-4 desertspoons of above oils at 2pm with raw fresh vegetable juice, full fat yogort, kefir, summer fruit melon papaya, pineapple. Meat such as beef or lamb or pork and sometimes chicken in m,oderation. Fat in the meal reduces insulin requirement. And inject fast acting insulin at 4pm which being porcine neutral will cover my evening meal at 6pm. A natural insulin, it does cause increase in blood pressure on overdose but probably not having the usual secondary diabetic effects usually attributed to high blood sugar levels that Jason Fung has nailed down to modern insulin and drugs.
I have been on insulin and supplements only for some years, blood pressure pills just caused ED and ashwagandha has fixed my hypothyroidism when laevo thyroxine failed. I have none of the usual secondary diabetes symptoms, retinopathy and the rest of its friends.
It is about time NHS brought its dietary advice for diabetics at least to 2016 as carbs are oviously not nutritious and just increase the insulin the drug companies would like used. Veg and fruits a better option along with safe carbs like sweet potato, cold cooked potato.
So an early evening meal at 6pm or this can be missed if a longer fast is needed. During the fast body will make ketones from usually tummy fat to feed the brain and muscles. Insulin not needed for these to use it so it should not build too much. Tummy fat surrounding the organs like kidney, liver and especially pancreas will exascerbate diabetes type 2. But diabetes like cancer likely a disease of the mitochondria trying Moringa to fix these and previous hint of cancer in my gut, also good for diabetes.
Search the web before accepting the advice of your health professional, dietition, even consultant.
https://intensivedietarymanagement.com/
