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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 371625" data-source="post: 1672341"><p>My concern is that when people are first diagnosed, they are more often than not overweight and physically inactive, eating too many carbs and too much fat and other processed food. A little physical activity (brisk walk for 30 minutes once or twice a day), and reduction in energy dense, processed foods have been demonstrated to reduce or eliminate insulin resistance / metabolic syndrome in many cases.</p><p>Your argument appears to be, 'don't bother as you will only binge afterwards, instead give up all carbs, eat as much animal fat as you like and don't worry about exercise as it isn't important and anyway will make you more likely to eat rubbish'.'</p><p>This may enable people to keep BG under control, because it is removing sugar/carbs from the body entirely. For people unable to control their BG through diet and exercise, by cutting carbs (but not eliminating them), and becoming a little more active (not hours of gym time, just moving about a bit more) this may be the only approach left. </p><p>But for most people with a new diagnosis, surely giving yourself a chance of eliminating insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome with modest and sustainable lifestyle changes is a more proportionate approach. </p><p></p><p>I'm happy to accept a lot of your arguments. Fat, particularly from unprocessed foods has been unfairly demonised and eating too much carbohydrate is harmful. I just think that the argument is taken too far. 'Fat is not as harmful as thought, so it is not harmful at all however much a person eats'. Evidence suggests that any high fat diet increases the likelihood of cardiovascular disease, it doesn't make it a certainty, but it does increase the likelihood. This may be too simplistic an argument, it may be that this is only the case when combined with other factors, but high fat has not as yet been shown to be without risk.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deleted member 371625, post: 1672341"] My concern is that when people are first diagnosed, they are more often than not overweight and physically inactive, eating too many carbs and too much fat and other processed food. A little physical activity (brisk walk for 30 minutes once or twice a day), and reduction in energy dense, processed foods have been demonstrated to reduce or eliminate insulin resistance / metabolic syndrome in many cases. Your argument appears to be, 'don't bother as you will only binge afterwards, instead give up all carbs, eat as much animal fat as you like and don't worry about exercise as it isn't important and anyway will make you more likely to eat rubbish'.' This may enable people to keep BG under control, because it is removing sugar/carbs from the body entirely. For people unable to control their BG through diet and exercise, by cutting carbs (but not eliminating them), and becoming a little more active (not hours of gym time, just moving about a bit more) this may be the only approach left. But for most people with a new diagnosis, surely giving yourself a chance of eliminating insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome with modest and sustainable lifestyle changes is a more proportionate approach. I'm happy to accept a lot of your arguments. Fat, particularly from unprocessed foods has been unfairly demonised and eating too much carbohydrate is harmful. I just think that the argument is taken too far. 'Fat is not as harmful as thought, so it is not harmful at all however much a person eats'. Evidence suggests that any high fat diet increases the likelihood of cardiovascular disease, it doesn't make it a certainty, but it does increase the likelihood. This may be too simplistic an argument, it may be that this is only the case when combined with other factors, but high fat has not as yet been shown to be without risk. [/QUOTE]
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