AloeSvea
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- Type of diabetes
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Heavier in my case.
I guess my body didn't read the same book, sadly for me.
SunnyExpat, I hear you. I went to a LCHF talk-session tonight, by Caryn Zinn, an LCHF nutritionist (South African/new Kiwi), and Grant Schofield, a Kiwi LCHF professor (in.... something!) and heard "If you eat too many discretionary calories , even high/healthy fat ones, you will get fat," - and thought of you! Well, I thought to myself, "I wonder if this is what SunnyExpat meant in the 'LCHF diet - wary of it' thread?" - that kind of thing.
I guess the main thing is, different bodies react to foods and different balances of protein, fat and carbs differently. The big take home message is - you are your own n=1/experiment! You have to try these things out for yourself. Find your own food-place that works for you, indeed. (Your own blood glucose readings, and your own HBA1c in relation to food, and weight.)
And food is soooooo personal. No other person can tell anyone what to eat - ever! It's like telling someone who they should have sex with. Too personal.
But, saying that. Fat is the one food group that does not affect our - as in diabetic's - blood glucose level. It is the one food group that we can get energy, and derive satiety/feelings of fullness from, and not get dangerously high levels of glucose in our blood. ie that does not badly affect our health. Bearing in mind 'the cholesterol myth'. And the scientific evidence is in that in the absence of high carbohydrates levels (and that is extremely important) - healthy fats do not damage your health. Far from it. As for getting fat - OK. I hear you. You personally get fat from high fat. It's because I have been living in Sweden for so long I think - the LCHF message is loud and clear there. And Sweden is one of the few countries in the world where, due to LCHF, apparently, according to the diet doctor Eenfeldt, where obesity levels have dropped, not increased. And yeah - obesity levels have a relationship with T2 diabetes, due to waist fat meaning fatty liver etc etc, with the 'right' genetic bodily disposition. Which ALL of us T2 diabetics have.
I don't see this as an emotional argument, ladybird64. But I do understand that food has a very real emotional aspect to it. Food is very personal, as I say, and agree with.
But dietary fat has, objectively, a special place in a diabetics' heart and tummy . It is the one food group that does not raise our blood glucose.