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Originally Posted by keeranx  Complex carbohydrates (the breads and pastas for example that your pamphlet mentioned) are your best bet. They don't spike blood sugars like simple carbohydrates (hard candies, sodas etc...) |
Complex carbs do spike your BGs. Meters don't lie. Whole wheat bread and pasta are nearly as bad as white for me.
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Low carb dieting is not healthy whether you're diabetic or not..the body is deprived of necessary energy and resorts to burning off stored fat and ketones develop as a result (your sugars are also likely to be high often if you seriously limit your carb intake).
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We as a race evolved on a low carb high fat diet. It is the most natural diet for us. Only when high refined carb diets are added to peoples living on their natural diets do obesity, CHD, diabetes, cancer, and other diseases appear. Not increase but appear! High carb diets are unhealthy. The resulting elevated level of insulin is the primary culprit. It is the food and fat storage hormone. THE hormone responsible for fat storage.
You are right in thinking that a low carb diet will burn off fat, and that's the whole point, isn't it?
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You need carbs for energy and even for burning fat and maintaining a normal metabolism (low carb dieting lowers your metabolism because your cells are starved of the energy they need from carbs).
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Fat and protein only provide energy when it's convenient? "Don't eat fat because it contains too much energy and will be stored as fat!" in reality, Some of both protein and fat will be converted to carbs. Regular and ongoing glucogenesis, the reason we take basal insulins equalling roughly 50% of our daily total dose, is a significant generator of our daily carb needs.
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Find a low carber with no energy. I dare you!
Find a study (not a heart or diabetes association) that says low carbing lowers metabolism or is bad for you in any way.
Actually the only diet that causes decreased metabolism is a semi-starvation diet, that is the typical weight watchers food reduction type of diet. Long term weight reduction is extremely difficult for these dieters.
Zeroing In On Health – The Blog! Semi-Starvation Diets
