Learning what really is a low carb lifestyle

PatsyFitzpatrick

Here is a web site I found. Please if you understand what a carb purpose is for our body please respond. I am trying to understand this from a type2 diabetes. Yes a nutritionist or dietitian is knowledgeable but it is the MD who is pushing pills. So confusing. :grumble:

Your thoughts.

http://authoritynutrition.com/how-many-carbs-per-day-to-lose-weight/

prattiger65

I have no idea, but type 2 is bad juju. I just wanna wish you well and say good luck.

FXOjafar

Carbs are broken down basically into glucose which *can* be used as a fuel for the body. When you eat carbs, your body breaks them down into glucose and then your pancreas releases Insulin to help you process the glucose (converted to fat) to use as fuel. Excess glucose gets deposited as fat and saved for later.

As you know, Type 2 Diabetes happens when the body is unable to deal with the glucose load because of an inhibited Insulin response leading to a buildup of toxic glucose and no way to get rid of it.

Eating a low carb diet helps you by limiting the excess glucose load thus requiring much less insulin keep your blood clear of it. When eating low carb, it is important to replace the carbs you used to eat with fat for energy and sufficient protein to protect against muscle loss. A natural process called "Ketosis" enables you to directly use fat to fuel your muscles, and brain with the few essential carbs you need for one or two brain functions coming either from what you eat (You need less than 20g carbs a day for this essential function), or from a process called "Gluconeogenesis" which converts protein into glucose.

A good place to start learning about a low carb lifestyle is the reddit group http://www.reddit.com/r/keto which has a wealth on info, faqs, diet calculators and diet plans to get you going.

PatsyFitzpatrick

I have no idea, but type 2 is bad juju. I just wanna wish you well and say good luck.

Thanks

PatsyFitzpatrick

Carbs are broken down basically into glucose which *can* be used as a fuel for the body. When you eat carbs, your body breaks them down into glucose and then your pancreas releases Insulin to help you process the glucose (converted to fat) to use as fuel. Excess glucose gets deposited as fat and saved for later.

As you know, Type 2 Diabetes happens when the body is unable to deal with the glucose load because of an inhibited Insulin response leading to a buildup of toxic glucose and no way to get rid of it.

Eating a low carb diet helps you by limiting the excess glucose load thus requiring much less insulin keep your blood clear of it. When eating low carb, it is important to replace the carbs you used to eat with fat for energy and sufficient protein to protect against muscle loss. A natural process called "Ketosis" enables you to directly use fat to fuel your muscles, and brain with the few essential carbs you need for one or two brain functions coming either from what you eat (You need less than 20g carbs a day for this essential function), or from a process called "Gluconeogenesis" which converts protein into glucose.

A good place to start learning about a low carb lifestyle is the reddit group http://www.reddit.com/r/keto which has a wealth on info, faqs, diet calculators and diet plans to get you going.

PatsyFitzpatrick

FXO Thank you I will checkout the reddit website.

EvgeniZyntx

The web site you cite in the OP has a very slanted presentation. The first three sources referenced do not support the sites starting point. The idea "The reduced weight through a reduced fat diet didn't work or gave poor results"? The references chosen showed positive intervention results.

While a reduced carb diet (not necessarily low) seems to have some benefits to diabetics, I'm not read up enough to suggest one way or another in terns of low carbing for diabetics. I do know there is a lot of contention. I'd start at the Wikipedia articles on the subject and read the references posted as a start.


Edit: spellcheck hates me.

yarwell

Diabetes is a difficulty handling carbohydrates, either from inability to produce insulin (Type 1, autoimmune, usually juvenile onset) or from too much insulin floating aorund leading to insulin resistance and bodily processes not working properly (Type 2, frequently associated with obesity as fat deposits in pancreas / liver may be part of the cause).

Type II diabetics will benefit from eating less carbohydrate see for example the Swedish studies of a 20% carb diet which have long term published follow up. http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/5/1/14

We previously reported that a 20% carbohydrate diet was significantly superior to a 55–60% carbohydrate diet with regard to bodyweight and glycemic control in 2 groups of obese diabetes patients observed closely over 6 months (intervention group, n = 16; controls, n = 15) and we reported maintenance of these gains after 22 months.

The controls were switched onto the lower carb protocol in the interests of improving their health.

http://bloodsugar101.com/
http://www.diabetes-book.com/ <- this by a lifelong Type 1 diabetic who trained as a medical doctor later in life.