Now that was VERY interesting. Thankyou for that.
I'm just learning about carbs.
Things that were mentioned I'd like to ask some questions about if I may?
Bacon, Sausage,Cheese, Chocolate.
To me these would be bad for me as far as the "fat" camp is concerned.
Being high in fat would'nt be good for the arteries would it?
Wholemeal bread and wheetabix obsorbs bad fat from what I understand.
Therefore what would be better, no wheetabix and bread to keep blood sugar rising or yes to bread and wheetabix to eat bad fat?
You know, I have bacon at least once a day. Often, twice a day. My cholesterol used to be high, and I was put on statins to get it down. The side effects were horrible, but... On the LCHF diet (and yeah, that's high fat indeed), my cholesterol went down. I could come off the medication! Right now my cholesterol ratio's are excellent, it hasn't been high as long as I've kept the low carb/high fat diet up, and I've lost 25 kilo's. Fats aren't the baddies we've been led to believe they are for decades... It was when my dietician told me to cut back on fats and to up the carbs that my weight exploded and my cholesterol went through the roof, together with my bloodsugars.
Really, low carb, it kills 2 birds with one stone, or more even, as it tackles practically all aspects of Metabolic Syndrome. (High cholesterol, high bloodpressure, diabetes T2, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease...). Bread and weetabix absorbing bad fats? Never heard that one before. I do know they're high in carbs. For me, a regular lunch of two rolls would spike me to 18. I don't know what weetabix would've done as it didn't become available in Dutch supermarkets until after my diagnosis, but... They're carby. All carbs turn to glucose. I keep coming back to the same things, sorry if I'm a broken record. And hey, the chocolate, it's extra dark, (85% and up) so no sugar added. Barely any carbs, yay.
You know, we had a marine come in here who was a nutritionist... He thought I was trying to pull his leg, practically p*****d himself laughing when I came up with bacon. Double checked time and again whether we on this forum were trying to pull a sick joke with his health. The other week he let us know he'd ditched quite a few pounds and his bloodsugar control is excellent. on advice that went against absolutely everything he's been taught, and every bit of advice he'd ever doled out himself. It takes a bit of a leap of faith.
But from good control, good things will follow.
Oh, and bad fats...? Why not just eat
good fats? Natural fats, from animals or plants? Bacon, tuna? Eggs, butter, avocado's, olives... Won't do you harm.
Hope this helps. I didn't see this message earlier so you probably had loads of reactions already, but... Bottom line: Keep your bloodsugars in check if you can, all else will fall in line. Someone once likened it to tiny little bits of glass sandpapering your insides. Including heart, kidneys, eyes, veins... Having carried more T2's to the grave than I care to admit, that really hit home.
Hope this helps. But really... Pick up Dr. Jason Fung's The Diabetes Code. He explains it all better than any of us could, and he's a doctor with a waitinglist years long, he's that good. Maybe you'll take his word for it.