Posted on 11/19/2017 12:17:13 PM PST by ConservativeMind
What is the optimum A/1c number for a non-diabetic?
Right. They also found that healthy cell replacement triggered new attacks killing them. These studies resulted in reclassification of T1D from “chronic” to “terminal”. You would think simply observing a day without insulin would have made that classification obvious.
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Between 4.0 and 6.0.
I know what carbs are, but what are ‘fast carbs’?
>I know what carbs are, but what are ‘fast carbs’?
http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/different-between-fast-carbs-slow-carbs-2306.html
Basically, any carb that goes right into blood sugar. Most carbs found in nature don’t spike blood sugar quickly but fast carbs most of which come from processed foods do.
You can turn slow carbs into fast carbs primarily by separating the fiber from them. For instance, whole blackberries would be slow carbs, but pulped juiced blackberries would be fast carbs because the sugars would hit your bloodstream very quickly.
I understand that cinnamon turns fast carbs into slow carbs. Is that also your understanding?
What are the benefits?
>>>Diabetes aside, what do people here think about fasting in general, maybe a day or two every week?
What are the benefits?<<<
Reduced calorie diets are shown to improve longevity. There is this book called 5:2 which I’ve read that says there is way to get the same effects by reducing caloric indicate twice a week. 500 calories for women and 600 calories for men. You’ll have to read the book to understand the why behind it. I did follow that diet to lose weight. It was much easier to only have to use will power some days of the week than all.
You can almost completely control your own health with proper diet and excercise
This is particularly true for diabetes and Crones
I also recommend cleansing using cascara sagrada and psyllium shakes min 2x per year for min one week. 2/3 better
Fasting is waaaaaY UNDERRATED and very powerful
Ghandi said “ hunger is my power “
majority health problems are caused by overeating and indolence
My 2c
Mark
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“I understand that cinnamon turns fast carbs into slow carbs. Is that also your understanding?”
In the book 4 Hour Body” by Tim Ferris, he reported having a monitor implanted in his body, like they do for severe diabetics. He tried several things that were reputed to dampen the blood sugar surge after eating, but found two additives which seemed to have a significant (drug-like) positive effect.
Cinnamon and lemon.
[ Diabetes aside, what do people here think about fasting in general, maybe a day or two every week?
What are the benefits? ]
Humans are built for fasting occasionally, this is how humans lived for thousands of years before refrigeration or supermarkets
RE : the “hogwash”, the implication is the diet creates the physiological environment by which new cells are generated. That fits serendipitously with the fact that a huge amount of inflammatory response in human physiology is due to human metabolism not being adapted to managing the sugar load generated by the modern sedentary lifestyle.
When most of us were serfs, or had to get by on hurculean manual labor to make a living it wasn’t as pronounced, but with heavy automation coincident with “savory” being found to be enhanced in cheap foodstuffs by the addition of sugars there was the onset of a near perfect storm upon human physiology overall. It tracks perfectly with a host of maladies.
Cancer cells (most, or all?) are unable to manufacture glucose as I understand it. It stands to reason that if you go to ultra low to no sugars you’re going to starve it.
Damn, that means the government will have to mandate that children get only all flavor enhanced carbs in school diets!!!
Yup, in caveman lingo fasting was a term denoted by their language for “poor spear thrower”, LOL
Have no idea what prompted your screed. P4L means “ping for later” — and, since you must not have noticed, I addressed the comment to myself. I’m bookmarking this thread so I can easily find it later.
Carbs that go immediately into your blood as sugars. Refined sugar, refined flour, white rice. White food is bad for you.
I went on an 800 calorie diet once for about 6 weeks and got sick. Yeah, I lost weight but I felt like my body was eating muscle.
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