Nothing has put me off from following a low carb healthy diet. My health is to important to me to mess around with it. Now I have heard a couple of diabetic friends saying that they didn’t have time to read labels, the money to purchase fresh veggies, the time to cook, the family didn’t like it, and the insulin takes care of the carbs so it didn’t matter. I guess that anyone can make up a reason if they are hell bent on living in denial, I just don’t happen to be one of them.
I don’t know why the low-carbohydrate diet is so unpopular in the Y!A diabetes section. I can only assume that the naysayers are 1) Type 1 diabetics who can bolus with insulin when they eat lots of carbohydrates, 2) Type 2 diabetics who caught their diabetes early enough to incorporate certain types of carbohydrates (lucky them), 3) Type 2s who are in denial, 4) Type 2s on insulin who eat whatever they want and compensate with dangerous amounts of insulin or 5) people without diabetes who have bought the lie that the low-fat, low-calorie diet is the only way to go (yeah, tell that to people who spike over 300 when they eat pasta and yogurt, two so-called ‘healthy’ foods). Either way, I am a very strong advocate of the low-carbohydrate diet, especially for Type 2s who use exercise, diet, and oral medication to control their blood sugar.
April 24th, 2010 at 1:30 am
Nothing has put me off from following a low carb healthy diet. My health is to important to me to mess around with it. Now I have heard a couple of diabetic friends saying that they didn’t have time to read labels, the money to purchase fresh veggies, the time to cook, the family didn’t like it, and the insulin takes care of the carbs so it didn’t matter. I guess that anyone can make up a reason if they are hell bent on living in denial, I just don’t happen to be one of them.
April 24th, 2010 at 1:30 am
I don’t know why the low-carbohydrate diet is so unpopular in the Y!A diabetes section. I can only assume that the naysayers are 1) Type 1 diabetics who can bolus with insulin when they eat lots of carbohydrates, 2) Type 2 diabetics who caught their diabetes early enough to incorporate certain types of carbohydrates (lucky them), 3) Type 2s who are in denial, 4) Type 2s on insulin who eat whatever they want and compensate with dangerous amounts of insulin or 5) people without diabetes who have bought the lie that the low-fat, low-calorie diet is the only way to go (yeah, tell that to people who spike over 300 when they eat pasta and yogurt, two so-called ‘healthy’ foods). Either way, I am a very strong advocate of the low-carbohydrate diet, especially for Type 2s who use exercise, diet, and oral medication to control their blood sugar.