Thank you. If only life was simple! I've been trying hard with the lower carbs and think I'm getting my head round reading labels. It just seems so odd that things like cream are good, but I will definitely try and see what happens. I'm treating it all as a challenge, and my cv says I love a challenge. It's also so hot right now that my lunchtime walks have been put on hold. Sometimes I think my cv lies!
Yes, I know just what you mean, we have to stand the usual healthy eating guidelines on their head (if guidelines can have heads!) The "Be good to yourself" shelves are now to be avoided, as they are filled with low fat high carb foods that are deadly for us. "For us" is key. For some people whose bodies can handle carbs, the Mediterranean diet may be best, but not for us. On the other hand, the lower the carbs the higher the fat we can tolerate, so enjoy your camembert, double cream, butter, sizzled chicken skin etc etc without guilt. Just don't ever combine high carbs with high fat. That's a recipe for disaster. Here is Jenny Ruhl:
"One Important Warning
When I went back and carefully reread the low carb research discussed on this page while working on my new book I found some new details, and a couple longer lasting studies that pointed up an important fact that did not come out in studies that lasted a year or less.
What they have to teach us is this:
Low carb diets are very healthy as long as they are really low carb. But the bad news is that if your carbohydrate intake starts to rise over 120 grams per day, your diets will become very unhealthy
unless you cut back on fat. A high fat intake is only healthy with a truly low carb diet.
The studies that convinced doctors in the 1970s that low carb diets were dangerous were all studies of people eating "low carb" diets of 150 grams of carbohydrate a day or more. And more recent research suggests that those diets are just as unhealthy now as they were then.
If you can control your blood sugar with a diet that cuts carbs to a level nearer 150 grams a day, as opposed to 100 grams a day, keep your fats to 30% of all calories and you'll be fine."
You can read the whole article here:
http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/19066498.php