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Eating nuts daily could help control type 2 diabetes

Salad starter followed by meat and veg dinner then :D Yes, I do regularly have celery and cottage cheese.
I will have to stay on the plain choc covered ginger(just a couple of bite-size pieces) and I like Muller rice but have to count the carbs.
For a real (rare) treat I have a couple of all butter shortbread biscuits with a glass of whisky - or two
 
From what I've read, almonds and walnuts are best for diabetics.

I keep a tub with both in it in the glove compartment of my car, so I can snack whilst out and about
 
I adore almonds and due to their fat content I have been avoiding them for years.

Now I am on a low carb diet which (apparently) means I can eat more fat I have been eating almonds daily. I even bought a 750 gram bag for £6 from Tesco in a bid to save some money but they disappeared at an alarming rate so I am not doing that again...

Anyway,I saw a telly programme a few weeks back where as an experiment a lady was given 3 pots of 25gms of almonds to eat per day.
100gms equates to about 50 gms of fat so 25gms would be 12.5 gms of fat. Timed by 3 equates to 37.5 grms of fat of almonds per day.

The experiment was to see if the lady in question put on weight through eating almonds everyday for a month.

She did put on weight. 1 lb.... Yes, 1lb.

I was very happy to hear this and promptly went to Tesco and bought a ma-hoo-sive packet of almonds and 750 grams lasted me a week.

So I was eating about 100 grams per day which is 50 grms of fat per day.

Then I spoke to my best friend who said "But if you ate 75grms of almonds a day that means you would put on 12lb in a year wouldn't it?"

I am now buying 200grm packs from Tesco and trying to make them last. I have to put them in a cupboard as if they are on the table next to me a just keep a nibblin'.

I am hoping that as I am ultra low carbing I will get away with the weight gain as I have put on 5 stone since I moved 6 years ago. I worked that out and figured that I have gained 1 lb a month and it has gone on VERY slowly.

My best friend is always on about Slimming World as his mates wife lost 4 stone following the Slimming World regime. She has totally changed the way she eats and from what I can gather it sounds very much like the Atkins diet. Which I am doing sort of now.

I went to the free 1st meeting and my mate said "Well,you will be safe in the knowledge you won't be the biggest one there eh..."

I was. By quite a long way. Turns out that all the folk in my class had already lost a lot of weight and when you hit your target you don't have to pay to attend. But they all still attend every week.

I looked through all their photos before and after the weight loss and it was truly eye opening.

So I had a cry and went home and couldn't handle going again.

The end.

:wave:
 
I started having Blue Diamond brand flavoured almonds for breakfast every morning as they are just about the only thing that doesnt send me off spiking! not only are they delicious but i am sure they have helped my cholesterol levels tremendously too :)
 
Nuts are good to eat just little bit as they have lots of fat. i eat them before/after exercise as source of protein.
there is much more food good for diabetics. i discovered granny smith apples as they contain lot of solutable fibre so it makes me ful troughout whole day, i dont need to worry about hypoglycemia. also rhubarb help in bg and artheries, or chinese tea which some people say has same effect as medication or insulin and can repair a bit pancreac. some man claimed it cured his diabetes on that tea but thats obviously ********, i drink several chinese tea , green, fat digestation and this one for reducing bg. its without cofeine but its kind of addictive as it makes me relax, i dont know why:-) i believe nature offers much more than medicine.
 
I read somewhere that almonds should be soaked overnight to help release the nutrients...

Anyone think that is ok?
 
The research is funded by the International Tree Nut Council Nutrition Research & Education Foundation (representing almonds, Brazils, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamias, pecans, pine nuts, pistachios, and walnuts), and the Peanut Institute ...

The study feeds the groups on nuts or muffins or both nuts and muffin and then measures resultant glucose levels.

The study discovers that nuts are better for diabetics than muffins.

Surely, the result is highly predicable.
 
sterling said:
The research is funded by the International Tree Nut Council Nutrition Research & Education Foundation (representing almonds, Brazils, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamias, pecans, pine nuts, pistachios, and walnuts), and the Peanut Institute ...

The study feeds the groups on nuts or muffins or both nuts and muffin and then measures resultant glucose levels.

The study discovers that nuts are better for diabetics than muffins.

Surely, the result is highly predicable.
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You are right - highly predictable that T2s should achieve improved BGs by replacing carbs with nuts. When will th dietitians & the DUKs use similar common sense to advise us on our diet?

But note:
None of the funding organizations or sponsors played any role in the design and conduct of the study; in the collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; or in the preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript.
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Now I must make a fresh batch of my nut-cake-bread.
 
Usually I have a full 80g bag of almonds or half if my morning reading is high, they are flavoured and taste fairly salty, but the salt content is like 0.1g so not bad all, no msg either so just perfect :)
 
Blue Diamond is the make, they come in Sea Salt, Sweet Chilli, Wasabi and Smokehouse flavours. All have excellent low salt content and nutritional values. Can get them in ASDA, tesco etc about a pound a bag. :)
 
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