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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dennis" data-source="post: 5294" data-attributes="member: 1338">Rick, Now hold on a minute. Your suggestion of 100g carbs per meal (x 3 meals per day = 300g carbs per day) is a diet that for most people (let alone diabetics) would be suicidal. Yes, we can all stuff our bodies with very high quantities of carbs and one of two things will happen as a result:- you will not be able to produce sufficient insulin to deal with the carbs - result BG levels that will remain at a dangerously high level, or- you will be producing excessive amounts of insulin to cope with the load - result hyperinsulinaemiaThere has to be a sensible compromise and as you have rightly said what will work for some people will not necessarily work for another. Fergus can manage happily on 30g carb per day, as can many people, but I can't. However, I appreciate the need to keep carb intake to the lowest that your body can manage with, and in my case this is around 80 to 90g per day. On that regime, and combined with my meds, I have reduced my body weight by 7% and have almost halved my average daily blood test results.</blockquote>

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