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no carbs

numan43

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Location
Glasgow
Type of diabetes
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
if carbs are no good then why is there not a no carb diet instead of low carb (honest question)
 
Because you would be surviving on plain water
 
I think it is because some of our foods contain minute traces of carbohydrate but they are insignificant. ( eggs )

also -a lot of our vitamins and nutrients come from vegetables which in the main are very low carb but do contain enough to be counted.

cabbage , celery , kale , spinach , broccoli , cauliflower are good examples of veg that contain such low amounts of carbohydrate that you will be full eating any of these long before you have eaten 10 grams of carbohydrate in 1 meal.

perhaps you could give some examples of the 0 carb foods you refer to ??
 
numan43 said:
why if there are certain foods labeled as 0 carbs?
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Because no carbs would not guarantee you getting all nurition that our bodies need and may overload you on other nutrients.

Lower carbing ensures that you can get a balanced diet of nutrients. No carbing cannot be guaranteed to do so.

Even though carbs are highly effective at breaking down to glucose in our bodies. So does fat and proteins....

A balanced diet contains all vitamins and nutrients for our bodies. The risk of a no carb variation is that you may be getting excesses of certain nutrients but not enough of others.
 
Certain persons like Inuits did very well on diets different to the Western way of eating. I don't deny that.
Proper food without being manufactured is far healthier in my belief than considering a "diet" that is restricted.

A no carb diet in our current Westernised way of eating would be restricting and would be unsustainable.
 
thank you very much for the informative responses, it was just something that sprang to mind as i am starting out on a low carb way of life
 
hi himtoo, i was thinking of meat and fish
 
Yes -- fresh meat and fish fit the bill but as @donnellysdogs says there is not enough variation in that sort of diet to give your body all it needs to function properly in the long term.
of course it is a balance as well -- finding out which foods that do contain carbohydrate your body can tolerate.
the low carb diet gives you these nutrients without making your body work to hard to process them ( raised Blood sugars )

some people with D can eat rice -- many others cannot. as with bread , potatoes and many of the starch based carbs.
the low carb diet gives delicious alternatives to the modern western diet -- loads of recipes in the low carb recipe section.
 
I think Inuits and Eskimo's etc ate the complete whole animal too... So rather than jyst trying to say eat just chicken breast all your life you would have to eat every single part of the animal. I think they ate brains, liver, kidneys, eyes.. Everything....

Us Westerners wouldn't be able to face that!!
 
i've to see GP on tuesday
i just hope the doctors are more open to the low carb view than they were 10 years ago when i first tried it, i got no support at all then
 
Depending on your doc, you may find that little has changed.

But worry not, I've been low carbing for years. Without the doc's knowledge, input, or approval - and I'm doing fine.

Mind you, the doc never had any input into any of the other diets I've tried over the years...
 
numan43 said:
i've to see GP on tuesday
i just hope the doctors are more open to the low carb view than they were 10 years ago when i first tried it, i got no support at all then
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Nothing has changed in most NHS GP Practices...not in last 10 years. You are very likely to receive the same reaction as you did 10 years ago.

Depends how you phrase it though. If you said you were going to lower the foods with sugars in from carbs ...Then you would probably get a better reaction.

Any mention of increasing fats and you are likely to have a battle on your hands.

If you have iplayer look at the BBC programme this past week about how the public just think of sugars rathr than carbs... This is how our GP's and Nurses still think. If you can say to them that a manufactured ready meal that you used to eat has the equivalent of xx amounts of teaspoons of sugar in it...and because of this you want to change to looking at the foods you eat... Well then you may stand a chance!!

Goid luck and please let us know what your Clinicians responses are..
 
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