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Yes, of course, and I've also learned here that it's important to have a nurse who blames and judges you for being obese and diabetic. That makes for excellent patient care apparently.

Yes, these are the things that matter.

Ah, so that's your point. Seems pretty darn obvious to me. If your disease was caused by lifestyle and "remitted" by changing that lifestyle, you wouldn't want to return to old habits. Thanks for clearing that up!

Uh, since when does the difference even matter? It would be specific to the disease process and the individual. What practical difference does your terminology make?

OK, then, remission is it. Why are we quibbling over terminology? The point is: if you want to cure your T2DM or put your T2DM "in remission," the ADA guidelines are not very helpful.

Giving up diet coke for water is not "giving up calorie dense things for less calorie dense things."

Ok, whatever you want to call it or however you want to define it. It's possible, it happens, it's a real thing XD

*shrug* Who cares what I sound like? Seriously, there is no healing from diabetes!? Then how do you explain people who've done it? When someone goes from using exogenous insulin everyday to control blood sugar to no need for the medication while still controlling blood sugar: I call that healing! Smh. I guess the only…

Well, I believe she said Big Pharma is why she gets out of bed everyday... I assumed she meant for work, but maybe I misunderstood. Is there another explanation?

Artificial sweetners increase cravings for sweet: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892765/pdf/yjbm_83_2_101.pdf This study followed 62 overweight women trying to lose weight who regularly drank diet beverages. Half the women were randomized to start drinking water instead, the other half continued drinking diet…

I'm confused, Steven. What exactly is this link suppose to confirm? You're building a strawman by saying "eat all the sugar and carbs and just shoot up on more medication." The point is: that 45-60 g of carbs per meal is arbitrary and unhelpful. T2DM is a dietary disease, and it needs a dietary cure. If these people want…

Yes, I work side by side with these people. I talk to them every day. I even talked to the educator 3 years ago when I first found out about the ketogenic diet--to make sure I wasn't going to kill myself! (I'll admit, eating butter the first few times was scary). Now I'm down almost 30 lbs from where I was after having my…

Get a clue.... and you already mentioned you work for Big Pharma, so... I'm not surprised.

Totally agree. It's an utter disgrace. The vast majority of people are totally clueless. Even diabetes educators at the hospital know that the ketogenic diet works so much better for T2DM, but their hands are tied and they aren't allowed to teach it. ADA guidelines are taught to protect medicare/medicaid reimbursement.

To clarify, they don't help unless you are replacing sugar. Although they won't increase blood sugar, they still stimulate an insulin response, which drives hunger.

As I read this, I am having my higher carb treat: blueberries with whole goat milk kefir and heavy cream. I just add the heavy cream to balance out all the carbs! If you do have a carby day, you could balance it with a day of fasting. I have starting to incorporate regular fasts into my week, and I started losing weight,…

Yeah, my aunt recently was in some kind of weight loss competition for work where they dunk you and measure you lean body mass. She cheated a little and did a bunch of weight lifting the day before to make her muscles swell up and retain water. It can be short-lived, but it does make a difference.

I avoid sugar completely. I'm a little more open to artificial sweeteners--probably since I grew up around them with family with type 1 diabetics. However, don't think that no calories means no consequences. They don't help with weight loss. I would use sparingly.

I don't even know where to start with that horrible advice. You already claim it's "unquestionably true," but hopefully my response can help someone else. I feel I've thoroughly explained how excess insulin promotes both diabetes and obesity. It's a direct causal effect. Give people insulin: they get hungry, they gain…

Yup, I'm a nurse too. I see you've bought into the same lie as many other healthcare professionals: blame the patient. I'm past that now, but I understand. I used to have the same damning perspective. EDIT: in case anyone was wondering, this person poignantly expresses exactly how most doctors and nurses judge you for…

It's funny how you left out certian items that even you know are indefensible garbage.

You better believe it! XD

@FunkyTobias I think you missed my sarcasm in calling them "super helpful" tips--by which I meant "not helpful in the least." Both sections from the site are mostly BS, IMO.

NOPE, the man who won the Nobel for isolating insulin, Dr. Banting, gave his patent away for free because he believed this life-saving drug should be available to everyone who needed it. Big Pharma is the reason new (but not necessarily more effective) versions of insulin are constantly created when patents run out so that…

I also can't help but share all their detailed nutrition advice. (It's just your basic low fat, calorie-restricted, CICO-based approach, which has been tried-and-proven-false for decades.) Oh! And they also say make sure you space your eating throughout the day (so you can keep stimulating your insulin response) and don't…

@psulemon From one of the biggest manufacturers of insulin, Novo Nordisk. Even they don't deny what every clinician already knows: Insulin causes weight gain. Check out their super helpful tips: Does Insulin Cause Weight Gain? People who start insulin often put on weight,2 but the amount of weight gain differs from person…

No, you are pigeonholing me--just like you did by bringing in Taubes and the carbohydrate-insulin hypothesis. Any diet with all whole foods is going to have protective and satiating elements, such as fiber, which will mitigate the insulin response of those foods. Also, I never said insulin was the ONLY hormone, just the…

Ah, ok. "a small subset of people struggle with excessive insulin production," and meanwhile half the US is either diabetic or prediabetic. "you can get fat even with lots of foods that dont drive insulin" Of course you can! It's just not as easy, quick, or enjoyable. Most people are not getting fat and IR because they are…

If you think insulin driving weight gain is a fringe belief, then why don't you try this study of n=1? Get yourself a bottle of regular insulin and inject a few units or so before meals and at bedtime. See how incredibly hungry you feel and how quickly you gain weight. See how much trouble you have losing it. Or just give…

Well, then by all means, please don't say it again. You aren't explaining yourself, and you have no evidence to share. Things you believe aren't correct by default. @stevencloser