It would have been interesting to test him within 25 - 30 minutes. Non diabetics often go just beyond 10.0
That clip you inserted describes a diet that isn’t so far removed from the one Mrs Listlad had as a child. Maybe without the termites. But along the same lines. Except rice but that was hard to come by and had to be traded for in nearby villages in the manner described.
Gosh, that looks very appetising. I'm happy to give that a go although my fbg are usually in the 6's. I'll let you know how I get on.
Wow, it seems like you have cracked it and truly reversed your condition. The thing is, (I don't want to sound negative) but as a diabetic, and even though all the markers are good and in non-diabetic range, if I (don't know about you) were to become ill, stressed or even over- excited the sugar levels spike. I experienced this at Christmas when I had lots of people coming over for dinner. I hadn't eaten anything different to normal and yet my sugars went to 10. Haven't been that high for a long time. So, does this only happen to a diabetic or would this happen to someone who wasn't diabetic. Just wondered what your thoughts are?
What I struggle with as an IT Engineer, I look at why collectively we are where we are, being even children getting Type 2, between 50 - 60% of persons being either overweight or obese and at least in the US a similar number with blood glucose issues, and again in the US fasting insulin averages of 8.5. How much more proof do we need that we simply cannot do high carb. No RCT's are required it is blatantly clear that at maximum, only a third of us can cope with the sugar / carb on-slaught (and less if you accept Kraft's insulin work) and the numbers are in the millions, easily cross referenced by bloated health budgets and insurance costs. I think it why I have such affinity with Engineers who have come into this space, dispassionately review and look at where evidence leads. In the countries that are still eating in a traditional manner they eat simply, with whole proteins based on animals, seasonal other foods and natural starches.
I think I explained to DCUKMod. My wife and her family lived in a provincial setting where the food they ate was largely what they grew and farmed in their own backyard. The mother (in-law) would walk for miles to trade her produce with others to provide a wider range of foodstuffs. No roads. Just tracks. Quite a lot on your list match those foods that my wife has told me she and her family ate. However she does not eat like that now though. Quite the opposite.
Yes when ill my sugars go up but I would imagine that may be the case for "normals" although as they don't for the most part monitor its hard to say for sure. Stress to can cause elevation although I don't have much these days. Can't say I have noticed peaks through over excitement but I may have just missed them by not testing so often as I used to.
I must say it tastes how it looks. My extra fine almond versions look the same but are much more neutral, which I think would be further acceptable to more, as these are more like shop bought white bread in so far as not having an underlying flavour.
The Engineers such as Ted Naimen (now a Doctor), Ivor Cummins and Dave Feldman, I think could sit on a panel and the best people on the other side of the debates I feel would not fair well against them in the areas of debate, e,g.meat, fish, blood sugars, cholesterol - for me it would be one sided. I would trust these guys with the health of my family to make better decisions than any established body in this world, all of them have had health issues they have had to fix with low carb hf / hp diets, so have lived "it" also, Ted Naimen has seen over 100,000 patients.I think I explained to DCUKMod. My wife and her family lived in a provincial setting where the food they ate was largely what they grew and farmed in their own backyard. The mother (in-law) would walk for miles to trade her produce with others to provide a wider range of foodstuffs. No roads. Just tracks. Quite a lot on your list match those foods that my wife has told me she and her family ate. However she does not eat like that now though. Quite the opposite.
Engineers? My employer is an Engineer. And his company specialise in training Engineers.
It is from the world of Engineering that I take the expression “optimisation” from. So from Engineering optimisation I apply the term to diet.
Do you have the receipt and the carb count. They do look delicious. mind you I'm not a brilliant cook but getting better.
I know, they were high, still been ok since. Obviously got more work to do. I have thought about intermittent fasting but as I'm underweight already, I'm not sure if they would be advisable. Also, I notice if I don't eat in the mornings my levels just keep on rising so I panic and eat. How long should you wait to eat if your levels keep rising?
I've read the book more than once and listened to him on Youtube. To me what he says sounds logical regarding insulin being the cause and sugar levels being the symptom. I can totally relate to that. It was only the idea about beta cells which I struggled with. He states the more you use a muscle e.g. heart, the stronger it gets, so on that premise, the more insulin you make the more beta cells are used which should make them stronger ( I think that's correct). But my logic says that sometimes the more you use something, e.g. joggers who constantly run can get bad knees and like my super fit brother-in-law, needed an operation as his knees were very worn from all the wear and tear over the years. So, the other thought about over-working the beta cells also makes sense to me, hence why we will always be diabetic. But, that's only my way of thinking, hence why I started this thread. Have a good day.
I think of it this way. I have actually just got myself into reversal as a T2D on orals by using a low carb way of life and weight loss. I have proven to myself and the A&E doctors that I m hyperinsulinemic as insulin drips do nothing for my blood sugars. So now when I eat carbs, the insulin resistance I had has gone, and my body stores the excess glucose away in my body as it is meant to. My body is like a battery, so if I do not use that stored energy up by exercise or low carb diet, then it will charge up again until it is full, and then I lay down visceral fat instead. This brings the diabetes back again. So I will keep LC diets going
