Posted on 05/11/2022 3:00:53 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
A new study suggests that controlling blood sugar levels within the first year of diabetes diagnosis reduces the incidence of major cardiovascular events. Furthermore, the team also found that the more a patient's blood levels varied 12 months after diagnosis, the more likely they were to experience dangerous cardiovascular events.
Dr. Martin Whyte, co-author of the study and Reader in Metabolic Medicine at the University of Surrey, says that "the conventional wisdom has been to slowly and steadily treat type 2 diabetes with diet and medicine dose-escalation over years—the period over which it took people to reduce their sugar levels after diagnosis was thought less important for major vascular protection. However, our observational study suggests that getting blood levels under control quickly—within the first 12 months after diagnosis—will significantly help reduce cardiovascular events."
Type 2 diabetes is a common condition that results in the level of sugar in the blood becoming too high. The condition is linked to obesity or a family history of type 2 diabetes and can increase a person's risk of serious health conditions.
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Remember, excess blood sugar comes from carbohydrates you can’t burn off in an hour or two and can’t get your insulin to pump into triglycerides to ultimately be destined for fat cells. Cut your carb intake and you don’t have to burn them off or have them floating around, corroding your vessels and organs.
You don’t even have to lose weight to make this work. Just stop eating so many carbs, please.
I’m dealing with this as a new issue with my in-laws, and watching them go downhill for no real reason, is frustrating, but eating entire cakes in a day and passing out for an ambulance, while not eating any protein or healthy fats, is just ruining their health—and these people raised my wife to eat much healthier than they now choose to do. One just got a diabetic sore without realizing they finally had driven over the edge being effectively diabetic. They have the money to eat better, but it’s not as fun, apparently, and one has grown to believe that any fat and any meat is unhealthy!
Vitamins and supplements can’t counter the amount of bad we can do to ourselves from our diet, sadly.
I have taken a novel approach to diabetes.
I do nothing to control it, and eat as much candy and carbs as I can.
I figure, I’m getting my body USED to high blood sugar levels.
American diet habits had their own Fauci, one Ancel Keys, who through misinformation and dishonesty (anything new here?) forced the FDA to recommend a high carbohydrate/low fat diet that is now responsible for the obesity and diabetes epidemic.
There are numerous excellent books on the subject and as a starter I recommend Gary Taube’s “Why We Get Fat”.
Been on a very low carb diet for a couple of weeks
No more night sweats
I read most of Taube’s excellent “The Case Against Sugar.” Highly recommended.
“Once again, the brilliant Gary Taubes manages to make a complex scientific subject easy to understand. The Case Against Sugar is a riveting history of ideas, a clear analysis of evidence, and an utterly persuasive argument that sugar is the new tobacco. Taubes methodically explains why sugar—not sloth, not fat—accounts for our unprecedented levels of obesity, cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. Taubes answers every counter-argument as he exposes bad research, reveals conflicts of interest, and explodes myths.” — Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project
You can still have carbs as long as you exercise daily. Exercise for T2 diabetics is most beneficial AFTER dinner, as this will help mitigate the blood sugar spike that can stick with you throughout the sleeping hours.
My A1C was up a bit I was given Metformin
Type 2 here. 53 yo male. Need to lose about 40# fat and gain about 10# muscle. A work in progress. Biggest advice I can offer is to just get out and walk. I’ve been amazed at how even just a 20 minute walk can help. Docs got me on Trulicity and it seems to be working really well. Would like to hear what others here are experiencing.
Spot on!
I got a blood glucose meter and have been testing myself frequently during the day before and after meals to see how my body reacted to various foods. When I ate low-carb my blood sugar was very stable and within safe limits. When I ate lot of carbs my blood sugar skyrocketed.
You don’t have to avoid tasty meals on low carb. Eggs bacon beef are all fun to eat. And for dessert a cup of low-carb hi fat keto yogurt mixed with some berries and dark chocolate is pretty dang tasty and does not affect your blood sugar levels hardly at all.
I feel so much better on low carb, And now with the results of the blood Metering I know why.
I was diagnosed with diabetes last year, but I don’t think it’s going to be any problem at all on a low-carb diet.
In Dec. blood tests showed my sugar was too high (108) so I quit bananas; cut diet cola by 75%; cut rice, pasta, bread, and crackers by about 75%. Eventually I may have to end all of that, but I’ll know in June if this has helped. I’m not big on sweets, but do love carbs. Have lost a few pounds.
(Are there OTC tests for this?)
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One of my in-laws is on Metformin, and uses that as the excuse to eat a whole cake, then have someone call an ambulance to help with the diabetic coma.
“I got a blood glucose meter”
By prescription, or can you get OTC?
I suppose you can get it prescribed, but I just bought mine over the counter cost about $25. Make sure that the one you buy comes with a Lancet and several needles and a bunch of test strips, often you have to buy these separately. Any pharmacy will have them.
+30 minutes minimum
+ Confine all eating to a 10 hour window.
Thank you. I’m curious to check myself.
It’s the best way to find out how your body reacts to different foods everybody is different. And that way you can find out what you should or should not eat. Be aware that the postmeal test must be taken between an hour or two hours after eating To find your Peak blood glucose level.
Is this a message from the grave?
Not true. Eating a low fat (and thus high carb) diet, I was running 5 miles/day, 5 days a week and still fat. Going off carbs and enjoying fat has caused a big weight loss that has stayed off for 4 years - in spite of a back injury that kept me from running for the first 3 of those 4 years.
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