Diabetic Dream Food, The Diabetic Index Recipe Book
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To a diabetic food is poison. Carb puts up blood sugar. Fat puts up insulin resistance and the wrong type of protein will be turned into sugar by gluconeogenesis. So one has to eat a low carb, higher good fat, higher right protein diet. That is no mean feat. One has to know by heart the carbohydrate contents of most foods and avoid anything which contains more than 15% carb by gram weight. One has to avoid saturated fats with an even number of atoms less than 18 in their carbon chains, avoid trans fat, avoid Omega6 fat (which is particularly inflammatory to type 2 diabetics due to their 2x-5x higher than normal insulin levels which produce 2x-5x more delta 5 and delta 6 desturases which push the Omega6 pathway into an inflammatory state). One has to eat lots of Omega3 poly fat both long chain and short chain (both of which are anti inflammatory) and attempt to balance the saturated fat we have to eat with mono unsaturated fat. Then one has to eat the right type of mono unsaturated fat (Omega 7 in preference to Omega 9).