Hello, new to forum, how to lower carb in Jamaica?

Geordie_P said:

Dr. Bernstein has a good list of food and drink to avoid: it's very comprehensive and may be a little too extreme for some, but at least you know what is best avoided for diabetes. I'll quote it from Wikipedia below.

AVOID-all foods with added sugar or honey such as desserts, candies, and pastries; all foods made from grains and grain flours such as breads, cereals, pasta, and rice; all starchy vegetables such as potatoes, corn, carrots, peas, tomatoes, and beans; all fresh or preserved fruits and fruit juices; all dairy products except for butter, cream, and fermented cheeses, as well as full fat yogurt(for dairy products the more the fat content the less carbohydrate content)

It looks like quite a lot, until you realise that almost everything not on the list is ok. Meat is fine, eggs, fish, leafy vegetables, cauliflower, broccoli, red wine, spirits. Beer is made of grain, and it's a bit carby, Fruit is bad because it's packed with sugar. Doesn't matter if it's natural, doesn't matter if it's organic, sugar is terrible for diabetics. Skimmed milk is bad. Milk isn't good in general, but skimmed is the worst- stripped of fat, it's just all sugar. Don't touch it- get some cream if you can instead. Oatmeal is terrible. Rice is terrible. Bananas are terrible. It's confusing because you get told glucose rich foods are healthy: it's nonsense, especially for you.

The simple fact is that glucose is terrible for pre-diabetics, and the less glucose you can eat, the better.

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