Is insulin resistance diabetes? and how many carbs should I eat….?
I know that I should ask a nutritionist, but I dont think I can afford one. Im really confused.
i am a diet controlled diabetic for 2+ years. i had a nutritionist help after first diagnosis.they use a formula involving your weight, sex, fasting BG, etc… to find out . being a male at 250 pound i was allowed 75 grams of carbs per meal and 30 per snack. that seems to be working for me.
My advise would be to check your glucose before eating, write down the carbs you ate and measure again in 2 hours. if its up, remember not to eat as many carbs and when you find what works for you stick to it. weather its 50 carb 40 o r whatever. Good luck…………
admin on October 14th 2009 in Carbohydrate Counting Diabetes Diet
lilboomer25 responded on 14 Oct 2009 at 8:29 am #
i am a diet controlled diabetic for 2+ years. i had a nutritionist help after first diagnosis.they use a formula involving your weight, sex, fasting BG, etc… to find out . being a male at 250 pound i was allowed 75 grams of carbs per meal and 30 per snack. that seems to be working for me.
My advise would be to check your glucose before eating, write down the carbs you ate and measure again in 2 hours. if its up, remember not to eat as many carbs and when you find what works for you stick to it. weather its 50 carb 40 o r whatever. Good luck…………
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Delisa Dove~ LDS responded on 14 Oct 2009 at 9:14 am #
Are you talking about PCOS-That is insulin resistance-This is what I have and I just found out I have Diabetes -So Yes! -You can.
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rickyoutfield responded on 14 Oct 2009 at 9:20 am #
Diabetes Type II is just an extreme form of insulin resistance.
The human body developed on this planet over the past 2 million years. During all but the last 8,000 of those years (and 8,000 years when you are talking of an evolutionary time frame is but the blink of an eye), the human body evolved eating meat, fat and high fiber vegetables, with some roots and tubers.
Eight thousand years ago the "agricultural revolution" took place, with man learning how to domesticate grain. Virtually overnight, man became dependant upon carbohydrates as the main source of food. Archeologists point to that exact time period that the average height of man drops by two inches and all of the degenerative diseases we have today became prevalent in the society of that time.
With today’s accepted high carbohydrate diet it is projected that by the year 2025 there will be over 300 million diabetics planet wide. It is just not the diet our bodies evolved with.
Carbohydrates are simply long chains of sugar molecules hooked end-to-end. When a person eats carbohydrates their normal digestive process breaks up these chains into the individual sugar molecules, and they pass right through the intestinal wall into the bloodstream, and load up the bloodstream with sugar.
If this happened every once in a while it would not be a problem. But as diets today are so high in carbohydrates, people have a constant high level of sugar pouring into their bloodstream year after year!
This requires their body to continuously produce high levels of insulin to keep that sugar level down. (Insulin’s job is to push sugar out of the bloodstream into the cells where it is used for energy.)
Eventually the cells in their body becomes insensitive to the effects of the insulin (insulin resistance). To handle this problem of insulin resistance their body begins to produce even higher levels of insulin. This continues until their pancreas reaches the maximum amount of insulin it can produce, and when the insulin resistance increases again, their blood sugar begins to rise out of control.
The result is type 2 diabetes! Type 2 diabetes is actually an extreme case of insulin resistance.
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http://www.diabetes-support.com