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Low carb diets increase risk of T2D and cancer

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Increasing scientific evidence is showing that low carb diets increase the risk of T2D. Low blood glucose caused by low-carb diets accelerate the risk of insulin resistance and eventual diabetes. The research also shows that low-carb diets can cause cancer because of the associated higher consumption of animal protein.
 
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I should dearly like to see this 'evidence' that you speak of that low carbing causes cancer. As to low carb causing insulin resistance and eventual T2 diabetes, sorry, someone needs to do a lot more reading before making such a statement.
I have, and will continue to eat a LCHF diet which includes animal products and healthy oils.
 
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Increasing scientific evidence is showing that low carb diets increase the risk of T2D. Low blood glucose caused by low-carb diets accelerate the risk of insulin resistance and eventual diabetes. The research also shows that low-carb diets can cause cancer because of the associated higher consumption of animal protein.
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Oh dear, really ? So low carb diets increase the risk of T2D....you do realise that most of us here who are on low carb diets kind of got the T2D first? I think you will find that in reality a high intake of carbs is more to do with risk of T2D. Further, it is worth considering the fact that mankind appears to have evolved from early hominids (millions of years ago) through to the people of the mesolithic period (prior to the agricultural revolution over 10,000 year ago) on a pretty low carb diet. It is also probable that the incidence of cancers is far more prevalent in modern man than in ancient man. That said, I think given the fact that people can eat perfectly healthily by most medial experts standards, not smoke, not drink and exercise regularly...and still get cancer. In brief, evidently, being alive as a human being in the modern world increases your risk of cancer; should we not bother? Emmm...thanks but no thanks.
 
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Who says low carb is high animal protein?? If you e read lots of our threads many are low carb ( diabetes effective) MODERATE protein and enough fats to satisfy.

Have you read anything about sugar ( carbs ) FEEDING cancer and disease? Cancer thrives on glucose
 
Who should we believe? Some random person posting on an internet forum claiming to be the author of a book or real researchers working in the field like the authors of these papers:

Need for new review of article on ketogenic dietary regimes for cancer patients:
https://www.researchgate.net/public...ketogenic_dietary_regimes_for_cancer_patients
Dietary carbohydrate restriction as the first approach in diabetes management: Critical review and evidence base:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899900714003323

You might also want to update your knowledge by watching all the presentations at last year's Nutritional Ketosis & Metabolic Therapeutics Conference by again, all real researchers in the field:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkUl8S70DCT66YJ30w75d6A/videos
 
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Increasing scientific evidence is showing that low carb diets increase the risk of T2D. Low blood glucose caused by low-carb diets accelerate the risk of insulin resistance and eventual diabetes. The research also shows that low-carb diets can cause cancer because of the associated higher consumption of animal protein.
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Which evidence?
 
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Low blood glucose caused by low-carb diets accelerate the risk of insulin resistance and eventual diabetes.
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Welcome to the forum.

Hopefully you will learn that many of us actually found low carb diets to be very helpful in normalizing our insulin/glucose level where we either lower our diabetes medication and become medication free.

Perhaps come up with a new book with stories from here
http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/category/success-stories-and-testimonials.43/
 
russelleaton said:
Increasing scientific evidence is showing that low carb diets increase the risk of T2D. Low blood glucose caused by low-carb diets accelerate the risk of insulin resistance and eventual diabetes. The research also shows that low-carb diets can cause cancer because of the associated higher consumption of animal protein.
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I think this guy was trying to wind us up! Otherwise he just landed on the wrong forum :-)
 
OP's health claims sound remarkably similar to something I overheard a nursing aide telling someone in the next bed when I was in the hospital last week, she was explaining that she was a bit tired because she had been listening to a 19 hour audio book given by a vegetarian friend. The takeaway message of the book seemed to be get everything from veggies and grains and cut animal 'products' down to less than 5% of food (these animal products appeared to include dairy and eggs).

I gently suggested that there was good new research backing the 'other school' of low carb and healthy protein and fat and she told me that the book specifically warned against ' these fad diets' :(

Thankfully I met with some good responses from some of the other health care people I met (I think I'll make a post about the range of responses, it was interesting).

It's not just big pharma, veggie oil producers and cheap junk food manufacturers who will be panicking about the latest findings on carbs, saturated fat and cholesterol. I should think the vegan/vegetarian lobbies must be pretty unhappy. The 'heart health' dogma has been one of their major selling points.

I think that there is likely to be a lot of incoming obfuscation and cherry picking to try to defuse/defend the status quo.

Give me the good quality research and I'll read it. One of the big gains from being diagnosed is that I've improved my critical thinking about 'evidence' ;)
 
We live in a world which labels Atkins a fad diet - Wikipedia removed my link to this forum in minutes, and my comment about anecdotal evidence of diabetes control.
It seems that there is a firmly fixed mindset about low carb, held in the face of all the experience of weightloss and improved health.
I'd like to see how Wiki would cope with all the diabetics in remission on this forum adding in their comments - probably just suspend the editing of articles - they would not want anyone to suspect them of bias now, would they.
 
The lesson I have learnt from the past is that cultist practitioners dream up their own psuedo science and weave it from distorted or out of context information.
 
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