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Alapp1212 said:
Quiller 230 a day?
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Not me personally; as I said I try for about 100 g a day. The table is something I downloaded from somewhere (I've forgotten where), and is described as the GDA - Guideline Daily Amounts. It is not a recommendation for diabetics, but a "guideline" for the general population I believe and shows 230 g for women and 300 g for men. I just googled GDA and came up with this link, the first of many. It states "An individual's nutritional requirements can vary with gender, weight, activity levels and age, meaning some people may need to eat more and others less." However, they don't appear to mention medical conditions, but as I say I am not saying, and I suspect they are not saying either, that these figures are ok for people with diabetes. As you can see from the replies different people make different choices.
 
In general, I recommend Peter Attia's blog on nutrition. He is a surgeon who moved over into nutrition and works with Gary Taubes on their Nutrition Science initiative, trying to set up evidence-based randomised controlled trials to test low carb eating habits and effects on heart health.

Link: http://eatingacademy.com/start-here
 
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Quiller said:
It is not a recommendation for diabetics, but a "guideline" for the general population I believe and shows 230 g for women and 300 g for men.
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And just remember how many of the general population will become diabetics. The human animal was not designed to run on carbs, they are meant to be a very small part of our diet, diabetic or not.
Sally
 
I don't count religiously but I will usually be between 35 and 80 depending on if we are out and about. I found the constant hunger and IBS symptoms vanished just by ditching the carbs.
 
Sid Bonkers said:
More than half the forum eat over 75g carbs a day and 12.5% dont count them at all.
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Or looking at the result in another way (a couple of minutes ago), almost a quarter ate less than 50g and 70% ate less than 130g. And that was way back in 2011, I expect we have all learnt a lot since then.
I presume the poll is still open for votes, but maybe a new one would be interesting to reflect changing times.
Sally
 
sally and james said:
Or looking at the result in another way (a couple of minutes ago), almost a quarter ate less than 50g and 70% ate less than 130g. And that was way back in 2011, I expect we have all learnt a lot since then.
I presume the poll is still open for votes, but maybe a new one would be interesting to reflect changing times.
Sally
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Im not sure the forum allows polls any more so we'll never know will we?

As for your comment "(a couple of minutes ago), almost a quarter ate less than 50g and 70% ate less than 130g." Perhaps thats because those members who do eat more than 75g of carbs a day dont post here regularly any more because they feel threatened by some of the more vocal lchf enthusiasts who insist that their way is best.

Talk of who eats what is completely pointless really, no one will never convince me that I am doing anything wrong as I have lost weight and maintained that weight loss for over 5 years now and have excellent bg and cholesterol levels.

As for what others do is it any of my concern? If someone wants to eat half a pound of butter for breakfast every morning like Jimmy Moore or eat a vegan diet as some successfully do to control their diabetes, its up to them, I have always said there are probably as many diabetic diets as there are diabetics.

Does it really matter how many carbs someone eats a day or whether they choose to increase the fat in their diet or not?

Surely the common ground here is that we can all agree that some form of carb reduction is a good idea, as to how much of a reduction is a personal choice and not really anyone elses business is it.
 
Sid Bonkers said:
Im not sure the forum allows polls any more so we'll never know will we?

As for your comment "(a couple of minutes ago), almost a quarter ate less than 50g and 70% ate less than 130g." Perhaps thats because those members who do eat more than 75g of carbs a day dont post here regularly any more because they feel threatened by some of the more vocal lchf enthusiasts who insist that their way is best.

Talk of who eats what is completely pointless really, no one will never convince me that I am doing anything wrong as I have lost weight and maintained that weight loss for over 5 years now and have excellent bg and cholesterol levels.

As for what others do is it any of my concern? If someone wants to eat half a pound of butter for breakfast every morning like Jimmy Moore or eat a vegan diet as some successfully do to control their diabetes, its up to them, I have always said there are probably as many diabetic diets as there are diabetics.

Does it really matter how many carbs someone eats a day or whether they choose to increase the fat in their diet or not?

Surely the common ground here is that we can all agree that some form of carb reduction is a good idea, as to how much of a reduction is a personal choice and not really anyone elses business is it.
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http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/category/diabetes-discussions.1/create-thread
There you go Sid, and it incorporates polls.

RRB
 
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