Diet and diabetes

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/...shtml?focuswin

This programme asks how much our diet is responsible for the rise in diabetes in the UK and worldwide. We also ask if the conventional complex carbohydrate, low fat diet recommended by the diabetic industry is really the most appropriate for managing the condition, or would a lower carbohydrate diet, with emphasis on low Glycaemic Index carbohydrates, and slightly more proteins and fats, be more successful in the long run?

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Re: Diet and diabetes

You know this is interesting, because in my area the endocrinologists are beginning to recommend a "consistent carbohydrate" diet. In other words, they recommend their diabetic patients eat 20-50 carbs per meal, in order to help stabilize their blood sugars. 20-50 carbs per meal is about 60-150 grams per day (they count total carbs, so their net carbs might be considerably lower). They also recommend to stop using sugar, stop drinking fruit juice (eat the whole fruit instead), and look for "hidden" sugars in food products. (Sounds eerily similar to low carb doesn't it?) None of them recommends the American Diabetic Association's diet anymore. In fact a friend of mine was hospitalized recently and the endocrinologist gave him a diet limiting the carbs to 30 per meal.

I'm in a semi rural area near two "big medical" cities (a couple of world reknown university hospitals with research centers). The doctors here tend to do whatever the doctors in the Big Cities are doing. So the consistent carb "diet" is most likely what the Big City doctors are doing.