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Questions: Answer YES or NO Can diabetes be cured? Can diabetes complications be reversed? Is exercise the answer to reversing type 2 diabetes? if a person maintains normal blood sugar levels for 20 years, will a doctor will still consider their diabetes to be cured? For the answers to these questions and detailed explanations for … Continue reading Reversing Diabetes
Regardless of what the medical and pharmaceutical industries think about older diabetics, I firmly stand with Dr. Richard K. Bernstein in believing that older diabetic patients have just as much right to have normal blood sugar as younger patients and non-diabetics. While older diabetics are more likely to have co-morbidities along with diabetes, a low-carb … Continue reading Older Diabetics
What Is Ketosis? Ketosis is a natural metabolic state in which your body runs primarily on fats and ketone bodies, instead of carbohydrates (i.e., glucose). What Is a Ketogenic Diet? Any dietary protocol that allows one to achieve and maintain ketosis (as described below) is the ketogenic diet for that person. The clearest explanation of … Continue reading Ketosis and Ketogenic Diets
TRUE or FALSE? Insulin resistance occurs when excess glucose in the blood reduces the ability of the cells to absorb and use blood sugar for energy. Insulin resistance is caused by too much glucose and too much insulin. You can have a normal blood sugar and still be insulin resistant. Insulin resistance can be reversed … Continue reading Insulin Resistance
Diabetics have been told that they need to lower their blood glucose and A1C. (If you need a reminder of what this means, please see our recent blog posts on A1C and blood glucose. With additional information in More on Blood Glucose.) As a result, many of us have been focused on doing whatever we … Continue reading Hyperinsulinemia
As a diabetic, you may have heard a dietitian (or even someone else less qualified) talk about "glycemic index" and "glycemic load." The short story is that knowing about glycemic index and glycemic load really has very little value for diabetics. The glycemic index was created based on results from non-diabetic persons. Glycemic load is … Continue reading Glycemic Index/Glycemic Load
Glycolysis refers to the breakdown of glucose and gluconeogenesis refers to the synthesis of new glucose. Both are absolutely essential metabolic processes. At its most simple, gluconeogenesis is when excess protein, beyond what your body needs for cell growth and repair, converts into glucose. Gluconeogenesis is the endogenous production of glucose in the body, especially in … Continue reading Gluconeogenesis and Glycolysis
It is the purpose of Adventist Vegetarian Diabetics™ to help diabetics, or those at risk for diabetes, to learn how to manage, control, reverse, and/or prevent diabetes and to achieve and maintain normal blood sugars and insulin levels without medications and/or insulin if they really want to do that. We believe that a low-carb dietary protocol … Continue reading Diabetes Medications & Insulin
We often hear the question, “Why is it that my fasting blood glucose is always so much higher than at any other time of the day? Especially when I have had nothing to eat since supper (or bedtime)!” At its most simple, “Dawn Phenomenon” is “very high blood glucose in the early morning due to … Continue reading Dawn Phenomenon
For many years, healthcare providers have told diabetics that diabetes is a progressive disease and that there is nothing you can do to keep your diabetes from getting worse and eventually suffering one or more diabetes complications, including: peripheral neuropathy ==> foot ulcers ==> amputations blurry vision ==> retinal damage ==> blindness kidney disease ==> … Continue reading Complications of Diabetes
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