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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
I discovered the same as someone else mentioned. I have had a few carb free meals and straight away I still needed insulin to cover the protein.
Yes, but what was the fat content? If you switch to ketogenic diet and eat very low amounts of carbs, with those being complex carbs, then it's possible that excess protein, that your body doesn't really need, (unless you're a bodybuilder but even they overdo it) will get converted to sugar through gluconeogenesis.
This is of course why even with keto diets you still need insulin to live. (but much fewer units a day)
The trick for type 1s is the same as for type 2s: don't pour fuel on the fire.
Don't eat more calories than you need. Being thin IS good for you, healthier. (there are countless research links even on this very website showing that and giving that advice to lose weight and cut carbs).
Getting your daily energy from fats instead of carbs is the right thing to do. It gives you more stable energy and makes your mind sharper too. If people want to eat carbs, they need to be honest why they're doing it: it's not for their health, it's because carbs are sugar and sugar tastes yummy. Rationalizing this decision that because one can take more insulin and cheat assumes that this type of diet is healthy for non-diabetes as well. No! This is how they become diabetic, by following this type of "eat anything you want" dietary advice.
I find it reckless and irresponsible to read this kind of advice on a diabetes website. It even contradicts scientific research coming out every day published here. I mean, seriously, it's like, do people even read the news section of this website? Or its twitter feed?
Diabetes.co.uk is FULL of low-carb advice resulting from mountains of supporting facts and evidence with which to back it up. If it weren't, I wouldn't have signed up here.