Myth: Low carbohydrate diets are good for those with diabetes as they need to avoid carbs.
Fact: Carbohydrates (carbs) are the body’s preferred source of energy, and everyone needs a specific amount each day to help the mind, muscles and rest of body properly function. Carb-containing foods ideally should comprise about 50 to 60 per cent of your total calories each day. That’s for people with or without diabetes. Low carb diets can often overloaded with protein and fat, as aside from carbs, these are the only other two nutrients we can get energy from (alcohol aside). Following a high fat, high protein diet over the long term has been shown to increase risks of heart or kidney disease in adulthood (people with diabetes are already at increased risk for this), another reason why it is ideal for half the body’s calories to come from foods like fruits and veggies, low fat dairy, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds.
How big pharma must love these dietitians that make claims that 50 to 60% carbs is the ideal target for Type 2 diabetics.
Wonder just where she gets the long term studies to back the claims she makes about the increase in heart and kidney disease?
Graham
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These dieticians all sound *exactly* alike. Their writing is nothing but copied and pasted, cookie-cutter material.
Amanda Burton is a 20-something year old person who completed a University degree in nutrition. Like all University graduates she assumes that what she was taught was correct and why should she question this? Once she's been in the real world for a while and see's what her advice is doing to patients she'll either start questioning the dogma or blaming the patient. My bet is that she'll start blaming the patient. Then once Amanda hits her 50's and starts putting on weight and getting sick, she'll just blame genetics. Vicious cycle and think of all the people she's harmed along the way.
Big Pharma and Funeral Directors will love this stuff.
In the absence of the long-term studies - can't we just expect them to look at the short term consequences of the recommended diet? I thought it was accepted that spikes and troughs are equally bad for us. Huge spikes and corresponding drops easily measured by the good, old fashioned meter and strips would surely indicate that this diet would speedily lead to complications and rises in HBA1C- oh wait a minute -isn't that what we have now?
She's just trying to make a name for herself or maybe after a job with a large pharmaceutical company.
Kath
Holy shit... (sorry) but these people who advocate carbs for diabetics or pre-diabetics (like me) are off their head!! I've lived very well now for two years on a low carb diet (approx 50g of carb a day). This talk is just such a load of bull. Rant over :)
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