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Low fat v low carb

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Fuggs

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Diet only
There is a view that diabetes type 2 can be caused by Fat within the mitochondria, preventing it functioning properly, whereas low carb assists insulin Resistance by reducing insulin. What view do people have as to whether low fat and getting the fat out of the mitochondria is better than low carb if at all

Thanks guys
 
Just noting that carbohydrates are the main source of body fats.
Dietary fat does not go unchanged directly to body fat.
 
Carbs make body fat - insulin which is produced to move unused glucose out of the blood stream is called the Fat Storage hormone because it pushed the Glucose into fat cells in the body and prevents body fat being used for fuel. Starch molecules look like glucose molecules 'holding hands;.
Dietary fats have no noticeable affect on Blood Glucose, so it's fat that gives you energy, provides vitamins and is needed for a healthy immune system. And it's carbs which tend to make you fat whenever you over-eat if only little, are not required for either energy or vitamins and make you feel hungry as soon as the 'sugar rush' they give starts to wear off and it's carbs we T2 Diabetics need to cut down on.

So why would you even consider low fat ? - Unless you want to be tired, hungry, fat vitamin deficient with a poor immune system!
 
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IncogKeto said:
Maybe needs correcting, unless I've got a fundamental misunderstanding of the subject.
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Sorry, I obviously meant dietary fats have no effect. I have corrected the original.
It's so easy to read what you expect to see, instef what it actually says !
 
As far as I'm concerned it was a number of years eating too many carbs that caused me to end up overweight and eventually with a T2 diagnosis. By cutting those carbs right back down, within 3 months I ended up with pre-diabetic glucose levels, and - without actually doing anything else- I also lost 20 kilos in weight..

I grew up eating a normal/full fat, moderate carbs diet, and didn't change my fat consumption at all either before or after losing weight - but cutting carbs enabled me to burn off some of my surplus stored body fat as fuel instead. I currently eat below 50g carbs a day and slightly more fatty food thna previously, my glucose has remained at mainly low-end pre-diabetic levels, and I recently lost another 10 so so kilos after my reduced weight was stable for many years .

So for me, I have no doubts at all that scoffing too many carbs was the cause of both my extra weight and my T2 diagnosis.
 
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