Type 1 and 2 - low carb for all?

Reducing carbs is good for all diabetics.How much of a reduction depends on how well you maintain your blood sugar levels.

Yes.

All the best,

fergus

Bernstein advocates low carb for all. He's been doing it himself for decades and has been T1 since childhood. It's from his own experiwnces that he became a doctor and formulated his treatment of diabetes. He doesn't say it's easy. read the piece about smelling fresh baked bread

Don't worry about fat. it isn't the enemy. I've never been able to find any verifiable evidence that anyone has been injured by the Atkins diet low carb/high fat. If there were any testable evidence, there would be a never ending stream of lawsuits in the USA.

What about cholesterol. Dietary fat makes little impact on your cholesterol, it's mae in your liver from CARBS. there's nott much evidence that cholesterol is harmful either.Read Taubes "The Diet Deception" if you want the references on this

Tigerhair said:

What about cholesterol?

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Eating the DUK recommended complex carb diet & eating benecol or flora pro-v & oat bran & porridge, my chol from from 7.6 at diagnosis to around 5 where it stayed. (Apart from about 9 months on simvastatin when it dropped to about 4, & I had to stop it because of intense muscle pains.)

I had a reduce carb diet since May (Reducing the amount on my plate to about 1/3 & not having a cereal supper.) I've eaten a lot more cheese & lots of nuts, & full fat olive benecol. My cholesterol was 4.3 after 3 months of reduced carb & all the lipids were much better. That means that diet alone has reduced my chol by 40% since diagnosis in 2000.

hanadr is quite correct. Dietary fat intake has little impact upon cholesterol levels, nor is the total cholesterol reading very significant.
Insulin is the primary determinant of cholesterol, which is principally made in the liver (80%) and from the diet (20%). Raised levels of insulin reduce the proportion of HDL (good cholesterol) and increase levels of LDL (bad cholesterol). Raised insulin also increases the production of triglycerides, another factor in determining heart disease risk.
The bottom line is that the lower your insulin requirements, the lower your heart disease risk. It makes low-carb, since it requires much less insulin than a 'traditional' diet, a no-brainer.

All the best,

fergus