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Article looking at the diet of America

douglas99

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The methodology was to take the opinions of a bunch of experts. Not evidence based. Why bother reposting this?
 
I had a quick look at the recommended diabetic diets and one of them (the Engine 2 diet) has a whopping 70% of its calories from carbs!! On what planet is that a good option for the majority of diabetics (or anyone else for that matter)?
 
IMHO there is no "best diet", only a "best for you diet" which we need the meter to find out:cool: and a bit of tweaking!
 
douglas99 said:
Well according to US News.

http://health.usnews.com/best-diet

Obviously, I'm sure we'll all argue with their results.

Diabetes specific

http://health.usnews.com/best-diet/best-diabetes-diets


But it shows the size of the problems poor diet is causing overall, particularly when you look at the rankings, and the specific categories that the range of diets have been targeted at.

I'm still going to eat to my meter.
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Interesting, I'm pleased you added "according to the US News". I wish there was such a thing, guaranteed to work for all. There wouldn't be any problems if there was such a thing. You finished on the proper answer, eat to your meter, it doesn't lie, well, it shouldn't lie. LOL We are all so very different, it seems to me that you just have to keep looking until you find something that suits you. Using the meter is a great advantage IMHO.
 
The best diet is the one that works for you and keeps you healthy in the long-term.

The on that came out top of the poll (The Biggest Loser Diet) sounds very similar to the heart healthy Mediterranean Diet.
 
Careful - @douglas99 there is not - any The Best Diet to promote here .

Best to rephrase this and possibly say please choose the best diet for yourself .

Don't want any more squabbles over who's diet is the best diet !
Tiresome hot air and negative to all .
Serves no positive purpose what so ever really .
 
Yes, Eat to your Meter is always good advice. It is important to know why anyone wants to diet as a non-diabetic might want to focus just on weight whereas a diabetic must focus on blood sugar and might also need to reduce weight as well? As usual I will always look for scientific evidence and this is normally sadly lacking or statistically weak with most of these news reports. This is why in my posts I normally advise against any 'named' diet and focus on starting by reducing the carbs as there is plenty of scientific evidence that it helps with BS. We may all argue the amount of carb reduction or the mix of fat, protein and other ingredients and what is best for weight reduction. Portion size as always matters and The Meter is the final scientific measure for BS
 
Daibell said:
Yes, Eat to your Meter is always good advice. It is important to know why anyone wants to diet as a non-diabetic might want to focus just on weight whereas a diabetic must focus on blood sugar and might also need to reduce weight as well? As usual I will always look for scientific evidence and this is normally sadly lacking or statistically weak with most of these news reports. This is why in my posts I normally advise against any 'named' diet and focus on starting by reducing the carbs as there is plenty of scientific evidence that it helps with BS. We may all argue the amount of carb reduction or the mix of fat, protein and other ingredients and what is best for weight reduction. Portion size as always matters and The Meter is the final scientific measure for BS
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Very like that:)
 
phil1966 said:
I had a quick look at the recommended diabetic diets and one of them (the Engine 2 diet) has a whopping 70% of its calories from carbs!! On what planet is that a good option for the majority of diabetics (or anyone else for that matter)?
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Planet vegan
The son of Dr Esseltyn challenged his fire fighter colleagues to adopt this vegan diet for 28 days hence the engine diet with I presume some success.
. If you look you will find some accounts in different forums and youtube videos of people who claim success with diabetes with this diet. The father certainly has some research to back up his success with heart disease. I don't think that there is any research evidence for this particular vegan diet and diabetes ( There are certainly successful, short term trials of vegan diets with 70% carbs )

It's not only the diet itself though, no diet is going to work for you if you don't like the food or would miss things that have to be cut out so can't stick to it . This diet has no animal products, no oil, no processed foods. They say that you don't have to count calories but somehow I think it will be low; it's hard to get high calories if fat is fairly restricted ( works out at less than 25%)
 
@phoenix, I imagine that the "logic" used to promote the Engine Diet for "diabetes"
is: diabetes = type 2 diabetes = heart disease. "Therefore" a diet which is good for heart disease is a good diabetic diet. It's a pretty weak argument but it's just shy of being total nonsense.
 
Why should the man in the street listen to reports like this, that have no evidence base and are just the recycling of the biases of those in authority? The man in the street is cynical and wise to this, rightly so. The man in the street knows from extensive experience that all these diet claims are BS. That there's a never ending succession of claims, all with the same basis, pundit popularity. He wisely ignores it all. And that is the fault, not of the man in the street, but the journalists who produce **** like this and the "experts" who provide credibility to it, to further their own publicity goals.
 
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