One struggling diabetic wrote the following post:
“I was watching YouTube the other night. Maybe someone can help me understand. This John McDougall guy is pushing eating potatoes, rice, and corn to cure his [diabetic] patients. His idea is that meat and oils are bad for diabetics because it clogs the arteries with fat which makes a diabetic more fat and insulin resistant. I’ve tried the potatoes, rice, and grains, and my sugars go into the 300s. If you eat meat, people say that that is going to clog your arteries and eventually kill you, so I’m confused on what to eat. I’m afraid I’m going to be living on vegetables only and vegetable smoothies for the rest of my life.”
My first response was to point out that McDougall’s rationale is based on a false premise that fat “causes” diabetes. It is not fat, but sugar, that promotes insulin resistance and, eventually, diabetes. Other members commented:
Glenn wrote, “Following John McDougall’s dietary advice is a recipe for consistently high blood sugars. As diabetics, we need to be doing the exact opposite of what he preaches—lots of meat, eggs, vegetables, and no starches.”
Cheryl wrote, “Every single time that I ask those starch and high-carb diabetes diet pushers to show me the numbers, they can’t show healthy results. Cholesterol goes up; blood sugar goes up; eye, kidney, and heart damage goes up. A person last night tried to tell me that an A1C of 7% is perfectly normal. That’s like walking around with an average [blood glucose] of 172! You’re being wise to do your research. The fat-in-diet-causes-high-cholesterol myth has been shown to be false, and you don’t have to look too hard to find [solid scientific research]. It’s been in much mainstream health news for the last several years. McDougall is a book seller who is trying to push old information. He probably thinks the earth is flat, too.”
Deb wrote, “The key is not eating grains of any kind, sugars, or starches like potatoes or fried foods that have flour for breading. Those are inflammatory, which cause inflamed areas in the arteries and veins. This prompts the body to send fats/cholesterol to those areas as a sort of Band-Aid® to soothe the areas. Eventually this leads to blockages.
“If you’re going to eat low-carb with healthy fats, don’t eat grains, starches, or sugars. It’s a recipe for heart disease/artery blockages.”
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