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Originally Posted by Amylaze
As a noob to diabetes & low carb your comment got my attention. Where is a good place to start on this website in order to learn more? Thanks
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Welcome Amylase
not Ken, but I'll give you a roadmap to this forum and Ken and others can later add more about meters and fasting.
If you enter from this page
http://forum.lowcarber.org/index.php? you can see all the sub-forum topics and which ones have been active. Places to learn about the different Low Carb diets, newbie questions, journals (Ken's is great!) general health topics...and under that one you find Diabetes.
Check out the Diabetes sub-forum, read back through the threads as there are many videos and websites linked there that will explain insulin resistance and how to control it through diet.
http://forum.lowcarber.org/forumdisplay.php?f=45 One of the best 18 minute TedxTalk videos explaining insulin resistance, obesity and diabetes is a new one by Dr. Sarah Hallberg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da1vvigy5tQ or her website:
http://fitteru.us Her rule is No GPS (Grains, Potatoes, Sugar) and don’t drink any calories. You don’t even have to count carbs if you do just that.
Another excellent website with links to many shorter videos and articles on a wide range of Health and diabetes topics is:
https://lowcarbrn.wordpress.com This is a large resource guide written by a diabetes educator, check all the links under Everything Else tab, and under each topic, plus she has a free diet ebook for diabetes.
A simple real food, low carb website is: Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, has written one of the best explanations of not only how to eat, but why, all on one page
http://www.dietdoctor.com/lchf. His video lecture, which took place at 2011's Ancestral Health Symposium is an excellent 50 minute review of reasons for the US obesity epidemic and what to do about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSeSTq-N4U4
His diabetes page, How to Normalize Your Blood Sugar is
http://www.dietdoctor.com/diabetes
Fasting (or Only eat when hungry, stop when full) has been part of Low Carb for years, but last year Dr. Jason Fung burst on the scene using extended fasts to particularly help diabetes. The very long thread about it here stays active and at the top of the Diabetes forum because he is prolific on his blog and Dr. Eenfeldt's website, the DietDoctor.
http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=461563 A good place to start now is this lecture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcLoaVNQ3rc
Many members here follow the Atkins diet and have for years. A summary of the rules are at the top of the Aktins forum:
http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=236482 During Induction you are limited to 20g carbs, that is a plan I followed with success from Dr. Westman's clinic at Duke, an author of the New Atkins. Of course, many here also follow the amazing Dr. Bernstein plan that is 30g carbs/day split 6-12-12.
http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=470804
Much info here, but fasting is quite easy when you are first fully fat-adapted following a ketogenic diet like the ones listed. If this is a new diagnosis, you might consider removing grains and high sugar fruits from your Mediterrean style diet, it may be all you need.