ELSDON said:
All I can say is that if low carb is making you tired you may be interested in learing why this may be the case. Could I refer you to Dr J McDougal MD? (He is on the Web) He advocates a starch diet low in saturated fats with proteins limited to plant sources. I am not the expert but you may want to look at this. It may be the right way for you.
Elsdon
Diabetics generally reduce their carbohydrates as it's that food group that primarily is responsible for dangerous blood sugar levels. What is a safe and healthy diet for non diabetics can be anything but for a diet only T2 diabetic or one on minimal medication.
As an indication of recommended carbohydrate intake the ADA (American Diabetic Association), one of the worlds leading authorities from which much of the UK and other countries guidelines take their lead recommends T2's have an RDA of 130g / day or roughly a 25% intake as carbohydrates. At that level then by definition there is 75% of a diabetics intake to account for so naturally that 75% has to be split between fat and protein. Unless you are recommending a very high protein diet then by sheer logic a 130g / day ADA RECOMMENDED diabetic diet will be a high fat one. Many of us find even 130g / day too high to keep our levels safe so for example I average around 60g / day.
If you are worried about that then perhaps you should look at some of the forum members signatures including my own.
To keep my blood sugar levels safe my diet is roughly 15% carbohydrate 65% fat and 20% protein yet my Cholesterol levels are normal and healthy. In fact since adopting those proportions my Cholesterol levels are far better than when I was on a starchy low fat diet which I consider GAVE me T2 and you in both your posts have advocated.
This kind of diet (maybe no quite as extreme as mine) is really no different to what everyone ate prior to the massive increases in consumption of "starch" since the 1980's. There are very good arguments which you will find on other threads why the majority of us in some way blame starch and "low fat" for our diabetes.
I'm sorry advocating "starch" to a diet only T2 is like telling an alcoholic that drinking vodka is fine. It's not. To give you an indication of how "not" then if I eat my than 25g of rice (a level tablespoon) or a similar amount of pasta or more than one round of wholemeal bread or more than around one and a half new potatoes then my blood sugars spike massively dangerously and stay there hours. I know this because I test my blood sugars and can see the results. Many T2's have my tolerance and even the strongest may only manage 2 or 3 level tablespoons of rice or a similar starchy food.
Adopting a low carbohydrate regime is not an optional life style choice for many of us but a necessity that stops us going blind, losing limbs or stewing our internal organs in sugar.
I notice you are not diabetic yourself, if you continue eating lots of starch then I would suggest you will have a very good chance of joining me in the T2 club so please stop giving what many of us would consider dangerous advice to forum members until you have researched the subject some more.
