This thread is about what would count as a cure and may have gone off track a little.
I will stick t my guns though, all evidence suggests that without some moderate exercise (and I have never suggested hours in the gym, just a daily brisk walk) metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance will never be overcome. Diet is essential to control the symptoms of high BG, but there can be no cure without exercise.
Eliminating carbs can keep BG values low as glucose is removed from the system. I can see the benefits as I have stated, but newbies should also be aware of the risks.
Anyone is free to do this but to advise new members that exercise is unimportant as many have done here is dangerous and flies in the face of all known evidence.
LCHF is living with the problem, avoiding its complications. You can't consider it a cure if you are unable to eat a banana or a slice of toast every now and then.
I am not too sure where your " all evidence " comes from. Maybe post some research on the subject if you have it?
My own view of exercise/ movement is a little different from what is outlined here.
It is as follows -
At diagnosis
modern food intolerance => high insulin => high blood sugars => tiredness => lethargy => hopelessness => comfort food => food intolerance => higher insulin .
CURE
Following LCHF => lowering insulin => lowering blood sugars=> system waking up => sense of energy => nothing is impossible => walking up this hill ? easy => not hungry anyway => go to bed + > reasonable sleep , forget breakfast ~> LCHF when I get round to it => lower insulin.
At some point in the process as your body recovers from the dietary load it has had, exercise/ movement no longer seems like so much of a mountain.
I currently live 2 km from my local supermarket - it is straight downhill all the way and a climb back. In my entire 59 years of existence it would never have occurred to me to walk . This week at the age of 60 I have "popped " down there for random things half a dozen times. The first couple with a young friend who moaned at the very idea that we could walk. I did it not because I am consciously exercising or walking, but because it was a nice day for some fresh air and I couldn't be bothered to get the car out. For many of us , the same process will happen, for those unfortunately confined to wheelchairs, they too will find themselves exerting whatever parts of their limbs actually do work, to a better extent than before, but frankly if you can't exercise , the diet will still help you, and if you don't want to exercise ( yet) the diet will help you change your mind eventually if you stick to it.
Thus to me focusing on the food is way more important than worrying about exactly how much exercise is necessary in the initial stages. I'm certainly not suggesting that movement is not important, I do think however that it is entirely secondary and for those unfortunate enough to simply not be able to exercise, the lack of it will not prevent the benefits coming through, even if a tad slower than the spring chickens who find they can take up exercise with enthusiasm.
