My hubby has just been diagnosed with type 2 and I am trying to understand how to help with his diet. I have read that he shouldn't eat white pasta and rice, is this right. Also read conflicting stories, some saying tat carbs are good, others not. Help!!!!
In my humble oppinion Kim, carbs are bad. Your body turns all carbs to sugar which a person with diabetes cannot cope with. If you can reduce carbs then the diabetes becomes easier to manage and the risk of complications is significantly reduced.
Not sure if your hubby has been given a blood glucose meter by his doctor but this is his best weapon in managing diabetes. If he can Eat to Your Meter, monitoring what foods have a spiking effect on his blood glucose and then reducing of cutting out these spiking foods this is a very effect method of control.
the experts want diabetics to eat normal diet that is recommended for everyone and just keep taking more medication and more medication and eventually end up injecting insulin
for some of us this is unacceptable and we want to eat less of the foods we cannot digest and get off medication altogether in time if possible
even those who take medication - they prefer to go against the advice of the health care experts and last longer without taking more medications or remain on tablets instead of progressing to insulin injections
take your choice - what the experts advise or what some of us are doing that avoids the medication rollercoaster
this is why the advice seems contradictory - because there are 2 distinct camps
