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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
If you have no carbs in any of your meals do you still need to inject. If not then why can't Diabetics just eat zero carbs and be fine without injections or tablets.
Insulin regulates a whole load of things, not just carbs. Ketones? Release of those into the bloodstream is controlled by insulin and without it goes uncontrolled. Gluconeogenesis - making glucose from Protein? happens anyway and is even worse without insulin to regulate it. Using amino acids to build muscle and other key body components? Insulin plays a part in that as well. It's simply not quite so straightforward as no carbs = no insulin need.If you have no carbs in any of your meals do you still need to inject. If not then why can't Diabetics just eat zero carbs and be fine without injections or tablets.
Thanks for your answers Azure and Tim. Wouldn't it be great if no carbs meant no injections for T1's. Didn't think it could be that simple!
It would be good, we would all be striving to eat a zero carb diet if that is possible
No it wouldn't . Can you imagine the quality of life you would have if you were restricted to only eating meat, fish, eggs and some cheeses?It would be good, we would all be striving to eat a zero carb diet if that is possible
No it wouldn't . Can you imagine the quality of life you would have if you were restricted to only eating meat, fish, eggs and some cheeses?
You couldn't eat any veg, any fruit, any grains, any legumes or nuts.
There are lots of cheeses that would be forbidden to you, you couldn't eat yoghurt or put milk in your tea. Think, you could never eat a strawberry or even some of that wonderful asparagus that is in season at the moment . You couldn't look forward to a tomato freshly picked from the garden. As for that 85% chocolate ,sorry not allowed. You couldn't even eat liver (though for some people that wouldn't matter a lot!)
Your enforced lifestyle would mean that you could never eat with friends and presumably you'd have to take lots of supplements to try to ward off nutrient deficiencies.
You'd become what one French doctor described as a 'pariah at the table' and be condemned to what he called a life of 'l'ennui, la contrainte, la tristesse, l'exclusion' (boredom, constraint, sadness and exclusion) He was describing some of the diabetic diets in the past.