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Why no health warnings for carbs?

Pinkorchid.

Thanks for your post.

If I could lay paving slabs, etc, then maybe I could eat bread. But with two false knees, a hip that is waiting to be replaced, and attacks of Menier's Disease, I can't do these things. So, that's why I dare not eat bread and other grains/starches. That your relative is so active means he CAN eat bread, because he deals with the excess sugar. If he suddenly became sedentary, I think he would then notice a difference. However, on my diet of flesh, mostly greens, and sugar free 'treats' I am losing weight, yet don't need any more exercise than a daily walk, and a few hours hand woodworking; depending on how good a day I am having. That's why I target bread as a weight-adding food. Also, that's why I read 'Wheat Belly', to get a little more insight.

Ruth,

As for fat combined with carbs, I can't say I have heard that it is a blood sugar raising combo. I certainly haven't noticed an elevation of my blood sugar readings; and that isn't due to drug intervention, as I don't take any sugar lowering drugs for my so-called diabetic condition. I have mixed carbs and fats all my life. It's just that now I don't include stodge and starch in the carbs I consume. I never had a problem with blood sugar, until I retired and became more sedentary, and put on weight. As I have just said, I am still sedentary, but losing weight quite easily on LCHF/Paleo. If what you say is true about mixing carbs and fat, then I should be gaining weight, but I am not. My BS readings are normal, so that must be due to some other factor. Either that or I am a medical freak; or could it be I am curing myself of Type 2? Let's put it this way, I am not about to go back to regular eating of starchy foods.
While on the subject of what I eat, about three hours ago I ate a three egg omelet, and a serving of home-baked beans, with home-made tomato sauce. I don't know how many calories that is, but I am not particularly hungry at present and my blood sugar reading is 6.2.
 
Yes, right, when you said, "the diet that worked for me", I interpreted that as a reference to a "diabetic diet", but you mean a weight loss diet. With respect to moving paving stones, as a Type 1, I can say that I burn off carbs at an extraordinary rate when I'm doing physical exercise, and that's the route I choose. That's what makes me feel well, and has done since I was diagnosed in 1962. Obviously, when you are forced to be sedentary, your dietary needs will differ. But there is no need to put health warnings on carbs, anymore than cheese should carry warnings "contains lactose" or bread "contains gluten". Ingredients list sure, but warning, no. If some of us have a disorder, we can learn which ingredients we need to avoid. We don't have to insist that everyone else should be "warned" against foods they actually find healthful, beneficial, and enjoyable.
 
No Ruth. I'm sorry. I didn't begin a diet simply to lose weight; although that helps with the Type 2 problem. My diet is a diabetic's diet, which doesn't include sugar, or any other food that causes insulin spikes. That's what I was told a diabetic's diet should be, so that's what I eat. The weight loss is a welcome bonus to the lowering of blood sugar readings.
 
What people get told about diets for diabetes, really varies, depending on WHEN they were told and WHERE they live.

Years ago, T2s were treated with low carb diets only, because there weren't the oral meds that we have now, and there was a special diet for diabetes.

I've bought low carb and diabetic cookery books from the 50s, 60s and 70s and the attitude certainly was different. None of this base your diet on carbs stuff.
 
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