I read the article you linked to with interest, but my personal experience causes me to doubt if all the arguments presented there are correct. For much of my adult life I ate a form of Mediterranean diet, but heavily weighted towards fruit, which I love and found extremely convenient. I considered it a healthy form of fast food. Recently I discovered that I have a problem with raised blood sugar and I am convinced that Bluetit is correct in saying that we diabetics need to give up most forms of fruit, which I have done (not without regrets). Giving up fruit and other high carb options has somewhat lowered my blood glucose, but has done nothing to lower my triglycerides, which were already vanishingly low during all the years I was eating lots of fruit, and now that I am eating almost no fruit are slightly higher, though still well below the targets set. So I am not convinced that fruit and carbs in general are responsible for your wife's high triglycerides.As my wife had a blood test recently and resulted in the above. Prompted to research on this and our habit of eating fruits
regularly I came across this shocking news:
https://paleoleap.com/10-reasons-why-fructose-is-bad/
We have decided to drop all fruit-eating habits by 100%. I gratefully seek the experience of others in this regard via the
Forum. Thanks
...and people with this degree of elevation don't get the dreaded disease that the untreated lipoprotein lipase deficiency people get: PANCREATITIS.
I read the article you linked to with interest, but my personal experience causes me to doubt if all the arguments presented there are correct. For much of my adult life I ate a form of Mediterranean diet, but heavily weighted towards fruit, which I love and found extremely convenient. I considered it a healthy form of fast food. Recently I discovered that I have a problem with raised blood sugar and I am convinced that Bluetit is correct in saying that we diabetics need to give up most forms of fruit, which I have done (not without regrets). Giving up fruit and other high carb options has somewhat lowered my blood glucose, but has done nothing to lower my triglycerides, which were already vanishingly low during all the years I was eating lots of fruit, and now that I am eating almost no fruit are slightly higher, though still well below the targets set. So I am not convinced that fruit and carbs in general are responsible for your wife's high triglycerides.
I see in the article that it is claimed that when we eat fruit it cannot be used for energy but is stored as fat. I find this hard to believe, both because I became very thin while I was still eating lots of fruit, and because fruit is very generally eaten by runners and other sportspeople precisely to give them energy. If it could not do this, I think they would have noticed. My conclusion, for what it is worth, is that your wife could certainly lower her blood glucose levels by giving up fruit, and also by limiting other high carb foods. Whether that will lower her triglycerides is more doubtful, but it is worth experimenting.
Sorry to jump in on this...am I correct in thinking you’re suggesting that high genetic trigs can cause Pancreatitis? Upon hospitalisation in January, and ultimately my diagnosis of T1D, I received Trig reading of 12 and prescribed statins.
And how did they respond to the statin? Remember you were diagnosed with an untreated serious disease, Type 1 diabetes, presumably you were in DKA. So that's different. But people with lipoprotein lipase deficiency are prone to Trigs of at least 12, and to pancreatitis if it's not brought down. And statins are not the drugs of choice.Sorry to jump in on this...am I correct in thinking you’re suggesting that high genetic trigs can cause Pancreatitis? Upon hospitalisation in January, and ultimately my diagnosis of T1D, I received Trig reading of 12 and prescribed statins.
I didn't say that athletes SHOULD carb up on fruit, but the fact that traditionally many have done so, and still do, suggests that it is incorrect to say carbs cannot be used for energy, only stored as fat.There are plenty of examples of world class endurance athletes who follow low carb or ketgenic lifestyles.
The sports people who carb up on fruit tend to be none Diabetic. Prof. Tim Noakes is the fella to see about sports science re diet imo.
I didn't say that athletes SHOULD carb up on fruit, but the fact that traditionally many have done so, and still do, suggests that it is incorrect to say carbs cannot be used for energy, only stored as fat.
You may like to read this NICE document, from half way down, headed Lipid Measurement and Referral.
https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg...d-assessing-cardiovascular-disease-cvd-risk-2
And how did they respond to the statin? Remember you were diagnosed with an untreated serious disease, Type 1 diabetes, presumably you were in DKA. So that's different. But people with lipoprotein lipase deficiency are prone to Trigs of at least 12, and to pancreatitis if it's not brought down. And statins are not the drugs of choice.
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