Jen&Khaleb said:
After a topic in a different post I would like to ask people if they think eating Protein makes Blood Glucose directly. The only way I found for this to happen was for protein to go to the muscles and tissues and then the body using glycogenesis from those tissues to covert to glycogen to be stored in the liver. It seemed quite a complex process and something the body did to supply the brain with energy in the absence of glucose from carbohydrate.
What are your thoughts or research?
Jen
Erm....... :?
This was your original question ? Seems like you have moved the goalposts somewhat ? :roll:
As for your conclusion - well, the earth is round by the way ? :?
We all gave our answers on the basis of that question you posted - It is a complex human metabolic process which has been explained fully. Using the correct biology and much technical information which is available to all if they care to look. Scientist or not.
"Diet needs to be suitable for all people"......very true. That means in practice that there is no one size fits all as the HCP's advice is at present. Diet is very individual and is different for everybody.
Actually, I prefer to use the term 'lifestyle' rather than diet, because that is what it is. Something for life - something which gives us all life, vitality, health and wellbeing.
I am not a low carber, I use a low GI/GL diet but have seen massive benefits to my health and treatment because I reduced the carbohydrates. I also eat a certain amount of protein, some fats, very little sugars and generally a healthy diet. Not short of vitamins, minerals, nutrients at all.
Nobody is advocating that we should all eat just proteins and low carb. They are just asking the HCP's etc to realise that there is another way which can be of benefit. That's all I want. Stop telling people to eat plenty of carbs all the time, the very stuff that is converted to glucose and ultimately is just what a Diabetic of any kind doesn't need.
Why are you frightened of what other people eat ? If you don't want to go down that road, then just do it your way. Nobody is forcing anybody to do something they don't want. Questioning how the human body works and then if it doesn't fit your thinking seems very strange to me. We are talking about the human metabolism, which is basically the same for all, child or adult.
I wish I had known all of that years ago. Then I probably wouldn't be posting 'stuff' on here trying to stop others from making the same mistakes I did. The mistakes that saw my Diabetes getting progressively worse. Now they are in reverse because of the things I did to my diet.
As for your comment about children being children, of course they are. The adults on this forum, myself included are all mostly parents themselves and know about bringing up kids. Not all know about Diabetic kids, but we do know about Diabetes and the workings of the Human Metabolism.
Unfortunately when your children also have Diabetes you can't just ignore the things that help them control the Diabetes. I am sure you want your children to have a better and an active life and not get the complications that uncontrolled Diabetes brings, therefore surely it is sensible to help them control it by whatever means possible, now ! Some finger pricks, injections and diet changes are nothing compared to the misery of an amputation in later life because they weren't encouraged to control the Diabetes when younger ?
It's a fine line we tread with our kids, protect too much and we can get it all wrong, let them off the 'leash' and fail to protect them and it can be disastrous as well. We are all guilty at times of being 'over protective' as well ?
I had a friend who's son was diagnosed as T1 some 40 years ago. He is a healthy strapping individual now because he always controlled his Diabetes. Following the example given to him by his parents. They didn't enjoy sticking needles into him and had to endure the tears, the pain, the frustration when he rebelled and refused to co-operate. Then they endured the tears and the frustration because he had hypo's, was hyperglycaemic as well. He soon learned that control is a way of life for a Diabetic, a child with Diabetes. Those two extremes are there if Diabetes is not well controlled, for whatever reason ? There is much you can do to help your children through things, that's what ALL parents do.
He has modified his control over the years as new and more effective treatments and techniques became available. His parents didn't shy away from the tough decisions about treatment or testing. They were enlightened people and brave. So was that young man, he fought all the battles that Diabetes brought him without fear and with stoicism. Kids are tough cookies. Yes, they need protecting, but not at the expense of their health. He not long ago started to reduce all carbohydrate consumption and has reduced his Insulin doseage considerably as a result. He will never be able to stop it but at least he is now 'healthier and fitter' (his words) since he changed his regime. He also has stated that he wished he had known as a child about the effect that carbohydrates had on his metabolism years ago. He would have done something about it then. Doesn't blame his parents, knows they were just following the then current thinking at that time.
Oh, yes Kit-Kat is definitely not a horror, I have one sometimes and still enjoy them. I don't think that they were ever part of a 'healthy' diet though ? Just the occasional treat.
As for how YOU interpret things, well Jen............. :mrgreen:
2 fingers of a Kit-Kat is only 13g carbs, I can manage that as a snack once in a while. So forgive me if my response also contains two fingers........V :lol: