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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celeriac" data-source="post: 944337" data-attributes="member: 188243">The University of Sydney's Sydney eScholarship Repository link to Kirstine Bell's postgraduate thesis ' Clinical Application of the Food Insulin Index to Diabetes  Mellitus ' <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/2123/11945" target="_blank">http://hdl.handle.net/2123/11945</a>Somewhere in that, I seem to remember that in one experiment, they gave people without diabetes and T2s the same food and measured their insulin response and the T2s put out up to 142% more insulin.Presently, I am working out the FII for food that I buy, because I want to lower insulinogenic proteins as well as carbs.My ophthalmologist says that it's likely that my eyes have improved because of the food that I eat.I take the view that my body is firing on fewer cylinders, as it were, so I try to give it really nutritious food to give it the tools to do as well as it can despite diabetes. My ophthalmologist agrees that if you give your body as much help as you can, it will help you back.I am not bugged at all by people sharing studies, I think that's helpful. I think even some stuff from Ayurvedic medicine, naturopathy etc can be helpful. (I don't believe in homeopathy though). Poster's personal experiences can be useful too.What bugs me, is that so many posters act all smug about getting good numbers when eating toast. Toast is like soo nutritious, I don't think. Ditto Paleo mug cakes with weirdo flours and a tonne of artificial sweeteners. It's rubbish, nutritionally.Dr Gillian McKeith was found not to be a doctor, but the title of her book, 'You Are What You Eat' still holds true.Dr Jason Fung says that diabetes is a symptom of insulin resistance, that the medical profession wouldn't treat a fever and not treat the underlying infection, yet by treating high blood glucose not insulin resistance, that's what it's doing.I look at it as why eat stuff that doesn't keep you healthy, and take any risk that the insulin resistance, which isn't being treated, is getting worse. Because we know that while low carb diets lower blood glucose, high fat can cause insulin resistance.</blockquote>

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