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Low Carb & Low Insulin Diet
Diabetes boils down to the body's inability to maintain normal blood sugars. For type 1 or juvenile diabetics this is because the cells which produce insulin no longer work. For type 2 it may be due to lack of adequate insulin production or loss of insulin sensitivity.

Eating a high carb diet is probably one of the worst recommendations for diabetics since from a dietary standpoint carbs (and to a much lesser degree protein) are the only things that actually raise your blood sugar. Consider a small example where you eat a supposedly healthy bowl of low fat spaghetti with red sauce and have to take 15 units of fast acting insulin. For one, insulin absorbtion is not fixed--this means your body may only take 75% of that dosage or may take 100% (rare though). For this reason, when you are dealing with higher carbohydrate (and again to some degree protein) then you have a very difficult problem on your hands that if you are seeking a normal A1C (mine in currently 5.0 using low carb & low insulin) requires a lot of baby sitting and frequent post-prandial (after meal) highs and lows.

Alternatively, if you eat the right kind of vegetables and enough protein to fill you up cooked in butter with a cream sauce for your vegetables you may only have to dose 3-4 units of fast acting insulin to cover it. Considering the absorption problem you are dealing a much smaller margin of error if you shot up too much or too little--you won't be riding the same roller coaster as the blood sugar rise and fall curve is much flatter. This is exactly why low carb and low insulin diabetes management is useful and makes so much sense.

If you aren't eating as many carbs and you only eat enough protein to fill full then what other macronutrient do you use to get the rest of your calories. Fat of course. Hopefully this isn't too shocking for many people but fat has gotten a very bad rap and is anything but bad for you. A helpful ad free website dedicated to promoting a low carb and low insulin solution to diabetes is D-solve which has a how to section as well as mountains of medical research on this topic. Also included there is plenty of evidence showing that fat is not the enemy it is made out to be.

In a perfect world diabetics should be able to achieve normal blood sugars. With the traditionally recommended higher carb, low fat diet normal blood sugars (A1c between 4.2-4.8) are impossible. Diabetics following such a diet will find themselves on a very frustrating and never ending roller coaster and with higher then normal blood sugar level they will eventually have diabetes related complications. The ADA and other government organizations treat diabetes as a progressive disease with no means of stopping the complications--this is because there is no way to achieve normal blood sugars on their higher carb diet.