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Old Thu, Dec-22-16, 12:17
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Default The 6 Best (and Worst) Diets If You Have Diabetes

Terrible advice from The Cleveland Clinic, no less.

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Best diets
Champion diets offer well-rounded nutrition

1. DASH. Created to help lower blood pressure (aptly named Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension), the DASH diet goes well beyond that. It is a well-rounded, healthy nutrition plan for everyone. DASH is rich in fruits, vegetables and grains, and low in fat, sugar and sodium.

For example, on a 2,000-calorie DASH plan, each day you would eat:

Six to eight servings of whole grains
Four to five vegetables
Four to five fruits
Two or three servings of dairy
Six or fewer servings of meats (in this case, a serving is one ounce)
Include about four portions of nuts, seeds and legumes weekly and you’re set.

2. Mediterranean. This diet, based loosely on the eating habits of people in Greece, Southern France and Italy, reduces red meat intake and increases vegetables, nuts and healthy fats. For instance, it recommends getting most of your calories from grains, then fruits, vegetables and beans, and lastly, dairy.

You can eat healthy fats such as those from avocados and olive oil every day. Eat sweets, eggs, poultry and fish sparingly — only a few times each week — and red meat only a couple of times each month.

3. Plant-based. Most plant-based diet plans cut out or dramatically limit meat. A vegan diet cuts out meat and dairy. A vegetarian diet cuts meat, but allows foods like eggs and cheese.

A flexitarian diet is mostly vegetarian, but adds meat in as a “treat” now and again. This program features 300-calorie breakfasts, 400-calorie lunches, 500-calorie dinners and two 150-calorie snacks daily.

Worst diets
Extremes, quick fixes and supplements fall short

1. Low/no-carb diets. Be cautious of any diets that recommend avoiding all sources of carbohydrates and encourage a focus on high-fat proteins like red and processed meats. These plans may result in weight loss but aren’t great long-term.

Using insulin and avoiding carbohydrates can put you at risk for low blood sugar. A high-protein diet can also increase your risk of heart disease and kidney problems. If you do want to follow this kind of diet, you should definitely check with your physician first.


2. Fasting/extreme calorie reduction. Any diet that promotes fasting for long periods can cause low blood sugar. Even if you aren’t taking medication for your diabetes, it’s important to maintain consistent eating patterns for weight management and blood sugar control.

Any diet that encourages very low caloric intake (800 calories or fewer per day) can also increase the risk of low blood sugar and reduce muscle mass. This diet should also be supervised by a physician.

3. Cleanses or diet pills. Beware of too-good-to-be-true claims made about non-prescription pills and cleanses. These dietary supplements are not FDA-approved, so you don’t know what you’re getting. Some products may even harm your health or contain ingredients that interact with your prescription diabetes medications. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/...-have-diabetes/


Note how detailed and informed the comments about the "Best" diets are, versus the ignorance displayed about low carb or even fasting. And lumped right in there with the "cleanses" and diet pills. Infuriating.

It's no wonder they assume that everyone is one insulin because following their "best" diets, everyone probably is!
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Old Thu, Dec-22-16, 13:38
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And that's the key assumption. No one would experience low blood sugar unless they were eating a carb-rich diet and/or taking insulin. It's more of the same from the "T2D is a disease for life, learn to live with it" experts.
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Old Thu, Dec-22-16, 16:51
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Searched for who wrote this...it didn't sound like Dr Mark Hyman though Flexatarian could be his "Pegan" ...maybe. And DASH is #1 because it comes out in studies as #1?...not.

It was written by two RNs/CDEs from their Diabetes Clinic not the Center for Functional Medicine.
https://health.Cleveland clinic.org...-have-diabetes/
The Diabetes center at Duke, a section of the Endocrinology Dept., is also another world away from Lifestyle Clinic.Their CDEs support an ADA diet, linked right on main page, offer weight loss surgery, insulin and oral med therapy....While LC is hidden away in a regional hospital outpatient clinic north of main campus. Six years ago the LC option was hard to find, now, thanks to Google and more public exposure, Duke + Diabetes also leads to Dr Westman.

So many silos in big hospitals ... patients are so confused and ill-served.

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It's all really horrifying because it has such real world consequences which include all the suffering of diabetic complications and the possibility of premature death. We here are the fortunate ones, able to do our own research and come to our own conclusions.

Jean
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Old Thu, Dec-22-16, 20:27
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I think they're right that the DASH diet goes right beyond lowering blood pressure. For me, that sort of approach went right past it. Didn't even give it a wave.
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Early death lowers one's blood pressure very effectively.
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