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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bonnynemia" data-source="post: 253471" data-attributes="member: 40096">Please understand that I am not a medical doctor nor an expert on type 2 diabetes. I am just a plain type 2 diabetic diagnosed in July 1991 based on a fasting sugar reading of 468 mg/dl (I live in Michigan USA).What I will say here should not shock anybody because I have always been a big gambler, meaning that I either win big or lose big.I believed that I became diabetic because of (1) bad foods I had been eating (fast food junks), and (2) my being very lazy physically. I told myself that by going on the reverse, I would be able to manage my diabetes successfully.Our family physician required me to take several anti-diabetes pills. I refused, asking him to allow me to do 'my way'. He then required me to pass a stress test first. Immediately after passing the stress test, I started running the stairs in our house a total of 2 hours/day (in as many as 8 sessions/day). In a matter of 10 days, the blood sugar readings I was getting were already in the 130 mg/dl range. As required, I reported to our family doctor the results I was getting. He said to continue doing it.Long story short, going 21 years, I have been as healthy, strong, and happy as I can ever be. My past A1c's were between 5.2% and 6.3%. I have never had any diabetes complications, have never had any hypoglycemic episode, have always been using exercise as my only anti-diabetes medication (the original total daily exercise time of 2 hours was down to 30 minutes, up to 45 minutes, up to 1 hour, and up again to 90 minutes). The heart-healthy, natural, fresh (raw or cooked), unprocessed, and whole foods I have been eating which are mostly carbohydrates have not been considered as a part of my diabetes control method. Carbohydrates are well known for causing high fasting and high after-meal blood sugar readings.To understand me better, please google my name: Bonny Damocles, and read some entries you find.</blockquote>

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