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Controlling type 2 diabetes with diet alone
Diabetes & Endocrine System | Last Active: Oct 14 1:28pm | Replies (42)Comment receiving replies
Hi @chesterc, I would like to add my welcome to Connect along with @lisalucier and others that have posted here. I started working on my diet 4 or 5 years ago because I was looking to improve my health some. I have been told I'm pre-diabetic but that's been for years and I've never crossed into the full blown diabetes. I was also looking for answers for my small fiber peripheral neuropathy when I found Dr Terry Wahls book "The Wahls Protocol". She has an interesting story that she used diet to reduce and get rid of most of her MS symptoms - https://terrywahls.com/about/about-terry-wahls/. Her book started me looking into changing my lifestyle from live to eat to eat to live (as much as possible anyway).
There is a lot of information out there on what to eat and what not to eat but I'm finding out the real key is to reduce or eliminate sugar, eliminating processed foods as much as possible, eating/buying organic food as much as possible, and zero fast foods - hamburgers and french fries were my nemesis. That's what I strive for but I will be the first to admit I start the day with good intentions and a cookie will find it's way into my hands and it's gone. When I do fall a little, I try to get back on the wagon so to speak.
I found this study (it links to a PDF) on Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/) which is a great place to search for health information and studies. It is from the JAMA Network (The Journal of the American Medical Association):
Controlling Diabetes with Diet:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/579572
John
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@chesterc Chesterc, one of the problems many of us face with diabetes is the cost of the medication. Insulin, if you have to buy your own at standard prices, can run as much as $6,000 per month. But thankfully there are alternatives.First thing you need to know is that the pharmacist is supposedly doing something illegal if they offer, without being asked, the least expensive alternative. However, if the customer asks, they are required to tell about alternatives. One great alternative, at least for me, is the two Novolin R and Novolin N, with many chain pharmacies sell at about $25 per small bottle. The R is quick acting, and the N is longer lasting, and takes longer to start work in the body. But even better, if you have good pharma insurance and can purchase more at a time, the bottles cost about $10 each, or about $115 for 12 bottles, about 90 days worth. Ask your pharmacist.
@chesterc I think all of us have an occasional sweet of some sort. They say to just plan it into your daily carbs.
@oldkarl I am amazed at how little I have to pay for pharmaceuticals. Between Medicare and my supplemental I pay very little. For those of you not yet on Medicare, when you do get on it, it will be a blessing. That’s assuming that the current administration does not change things of course.
JK
@contentandwell I am sure the current admin will change things if they can to take more money from po' fokes and put it in the pocket of rich foks.
Hi @oldkarl - It's not like the admin from the past 8 years has done anything to help us. At least the poor folks who can't afford health insurance or don't want to buy it, won't have to pay a fine to the greedy government for not having health insurance - heard the number was around 6.5 million people. I'm just glad I'm still able to work full time at age 74 with a company that appreciates what I can do for them. I think that's why I like Toastmasters so much - the meetings keep sex, religion and politics out of the discussion. Just saying that is something we should strive for here on Connect. ☺
Hope all of my Connect friends have a Happy Holiday and a Blessed and Pain Free New Year!
John
@oldkarl ya got that right.
JK
Hi, @chesterc -- hope you had lovely holidays. Just wanted to check in with you and see how things are going with your diet postdiagnosis and keeping your levels controlled?
Connect
Thank you John and to the others who offered advice. I guess that the answer is to keep calm and carry on.
Without self testing I am very much in the dark so that should be a priority, I will lake an effort to read as much as possible ( thanks for the link) and press ahead with the diet. I too have an occasional cookie and have yet to convince myself that this will put me on the slippery slope. Otherwise our diet seems very good to me.
I will watch out for further advice.