Shopping used to be extremely frusting for me. The grocery store looked like a big well organized mine field. I am both diabetic and celiac (extreme wheat allergy) and there is either sugar or wheat in almost everything. The high fructose corn syrup is the worst kind of sugar for diabetics. That stuff is bad news.
Now on a high raw food diet it's much easier and I don't even need my medication if I stick to it.
Cutting carbs is effective for weight loss and diabetes for another reason. All carbs must be turned to simple sugar in the body before they can be digested. Bread and pasta require even higher production of insulin for that purpose resulting in a supression of glycogen. It causes hormonal imbalance and slows the metabolism.
When I cut these foods I lost a ton of weight and normalized my blood sugar.
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Date: 2004-05-06 05:19 pm (UTC)Now on a high raw food diet it's much easier and I don't even need my medication if I stick to it.
Cutting carbs is effective for weight loss and diabetes for another reason. All carbs must be turned to simple sugar in the body before they can be digested. Bread and pasta require even higher production of insulin for that purpose resulting in a supression of glycogen. It causes hormonal imbalance and slows the metabolism.
When I cut these foods I lost a ton of weight and normalized my blood sugar.