Is it just me or have i completely been missing the point all these years?
Whaat on earth is that glucose monitor for then?
Local restrictions
An increasing number of people with diabetes are reporting restrictions or denial of blood glucose testing equipment causing distress and anger among those who rely on these tools to self-manage their diabetes (39). 27 per cent of PCTs in England (40) report the existence of a policy restricting the provision of blood glucose test strips for people with diabetes.
Celtic.Piskie said:Graham, that's just plain old stupid that policy.
Graham64 said:Is it just me or have i completely been missing the point all these years?
Whaat on earth is that glucose monitor for then?
Hi Celtic.Piskie,
Many T2s are being denied the opportunity to test, despite the well documented evidence of the complications that can arise from high BG levels.
Local restrictions
An increasing number of people with diabetes are reporting restrictions or denial of blood glucose testing equipment causing distress and anger among those who rely on these tools to self-manage their diabetes (39). 27 per cent of PCTs in England (40) report the existence of a policy restricting the provision of blood glucose test strips for people with diabetes.
http://www.diabetes.org.uk/About_us/Our ... d_glucose/
Graham
Art isn't essential either, music, theatre, the opera or ballet.It's been known since the 1920s that carbs are not essential( Stefansson and Anderson), so why eat any carbs other than those in green leafy vegetables?
Absolutely no problem with that whatsoever - and I have never seen anyone on this or any other site suggest otherwise. But the important point is maintaining good blood control (i.e. a level of control that will avoid diabetic complications). If you can do that and eat what you like then go for it. Life is too short to not enjoy it!Celtic.Piskie said:But if you have good sugar levels, then what's the problem with eating things that bring you pleasure, while still having good blood control?
hanadr said:Dr H
increasing your starch may reduce spiking, but what advantage is there to a BG level that is steady and HIGH?.
It's been known since the 1920s that carbs are not essential( Stefansson and Anderson), so why eat any carbs other than those in green leafy vegetables?
'Carbohydrates are not essential nutrients in humans: the body can obtain all its energy from protein and fats[5][6]. However, the brain and neurons generally cannot burn fat and need glucose for energy'
When glycogen stores are not available in the cells (glycogen is primarily created when carbohydrates such as starch and sugar are consumed in the diet), fat (triacylglycerol) is cleaved to give 3 fatty acid chains and 1 glycerol molecule in a process called lipolysis. Which is by the way a key way to lower your blood lipids.
Most of the body is able to utilize fatty acids as an alternative source of energy in a process where fatty acid chains are cleaved to form acetyl-CoA, which can then be fed into the Krebs Cycle. It is important to note that acetyl-CoA can only enter the Krebs Cycle bound to oxaloacetate. When carbohydrate supplies are inadequate, however, the liver naturally converts oxaloacetate to glucose via gluconeogenesis for use by the brain and other tissues. When acetyl CoA does not bind with oxaloacetate, the liver converts it to ketones (or ketone bodies), leading to a state of ketosis.
During this process a high concentration of glucagon is present in the serum and this inactivates hexokinase and phosphofructokinase-1 (regulators of glycolysis) indirectly, causing most cells in the body to use fatty acids as their primary energy source. At the same time, glucose is synthesized in the liver from lactic acid, glucogenic amino acids, and glycerol, in a process called gluconeogenesis. This glucose is used for energy by cells such as neurons and red blood cells.
If the diet is changed from a highly glycemic diet to a diet that does not provide sufficient carbohydrate to replenish glycogen stores, the body goes through a set of stages to enter ketosis. During the initial stages of this process the adult brain does not burn ketones, however the brain makes immediate use of this important substrate for lipid synthesis in the brain. After about 48 hours of this process, the brain starts burning ketones in order to more directly utilize the energy from the fat stores that are being depended upon, and to reserve the glucose only for its absolute needs, thus avoiding the depletion of the body's protein store in the muscles.
So a low carb diet will mean that your body breaks down fatty acids primarilly and not protein (this happens in ketoacidosis and not ketosis) and synthesises its own glucose in the liver for the use in the brain, etc.,
So, one person didn't get ill, that proves everyone that doesn't follow his diet WILL get ill??Stefanssson lived about 83 years, most of it after the experiments. I've never found any evidence that he was in any way impaired, or that he went back to eating large quantities of carbs.
If we eat the diet we evolved with, it's inevitably low carb
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