Diabetes is a horrendous condition. If you can imagine all your small blood vessels falling apart all over your body you can get a sense of just how bad it is. That’s why you end up with gangrene, amputations, go blind and lose your kidneys as well as double or triple your risk of heart disease, cancer, dementia and infections of all sorts. All from too many sugar spikes in the blood.
Sugar, in all it’s forms, from table sugar to potatoes, bread and fruit really needs to be seen as a poison. Prof John Yudkin’s book “Pure, White and Deadly” was promoted in our medical school before it was thrown out and the incorrect ‘fat was bad for you’ idea was brought in.
The standard medical advice for the past few decades has been that you need a “balanced” diet with lots of carbohydrates and you need to measure your insulin needs to keep your blood sugars in check. There are plenty of doctors now questioning that advice.
If you have diabetes you need to educate yourself by reading their thoughts, at least enough to start questioning your doctor if s/he is still working within the misguided standards of care that has led to diabetes being called a progressive irreversible disease.
It’s a tough thing to find out your doctor may not have a clue about this and you may be the one to help reeducate them. You can do that by asking them to review the pages that I have on this page.
I believe the dietary guidelines will be changing but I don’t recommend that you wait because every day that you live with rampant blood sugar levels is another day you’ve spent damaging yourself. If I had diabetes I know what I’d be doing.
The place to start is to get your daily carb intake under 20 grams of total carbs. I suggest my book Evolving Food Pyramids, that you can read for free. You very well may need to reduce your insulin input by 50% on the first day that you do that to prevent excess insulin driving you into hypoglycaemia. If you have been a diabetic on insulin for any length of time you should know that this can be a fatal condition and you should be able to recognise the symptoms and be able to act accordingly so that you pull yourself through it.
For Type 2’s you can either massively reduce the amount of insulin you need or eliminate it altogether. For Type 1’s you will generally need some insulin but it will again be greatly reduced.
I’ll add to this page over the coming years but in the meantime here’s some recommended information sources. Feel welcome to be in touch and ask any questions you want.
I recommend this page first:
https://www.dietdoctor.com/diabetes
You’ll find some supportive articles in a diabetes search on my website:
http://daragrennie.com/?s=diabetes&x=0&y=0
For Type 1’s particularly kids here is my favourite Facebook group