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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chris24Main" data-source="post: 2754937" data-attributes="member: 585131">Had a scan over the advice for how to eat if you are prediabetic.Some good advice, and on the whole, better than I expected, but some things that at least I know just don't gel with my experience.1. "Fats containing saturated fat raise the fat levels in our blood" - well that seems to make sense: except that isn't how it works. It isn't even mentioned at all on the entire page, but fat is a perfectly viable source of energy, and the amount in your blood is tightly regulated depending on how you eat. If you eat more sugar and starch than you can burn or store (which isn't much) you will turn that into a type of saturated fat. Fats are really complex. For me, the fat in my blood shot right over the top of the measurement scale because I was eating too many grapes and honey.2. "Bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, chapattis, plantain, starchy veg, sugar and flours all contain carbohydrate. This is broken down into glucose and used by our cells as fuel." Bit of a misrepresentation. Even according to the American Academy of Sciences 2005, the body that leads on daily limits:  "the lower limit of dietary carbohydrate compatible with life is apparently zero provided that adequate amounts of protein and fat are consumed." You do need some glucose for energy, but you can make all the glucose you need for energy yourself. The amount you need to eat is zero. Everything else is choice. 3. "can be one of your 5 a day" - the 5 a day thing was never real. You can eat what you like, but there was never any science that suggested 5 a day was beneficial, it was just assumed.4. "Fats that are considered healthy are known as unsaturated fats" That's a terribly old narrative and just doesn't make sense. Nearly half of beef fat is unsaturated. Sauerkraut is full of saturated short chain fatty acid, but saturated nonetheless. The most highly saturated fat comes from coconuts. Fats are complex, and all food contains a mix of different fat. However, we are made primarily from fat and protein, and our brains are mainly fat, so maybe demonising a category of fat that humans have eaten for the entirety of human history isn't such a good idea.Also, maybe replacing that with industrially refined oils as a huge proportion of our diet, when there really isn't any science to suggest that's a good thing - maybe that we should think about..... But like I said, not as bad as I was worried about.</blockquote>

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