thanks rockyromero

i went searching 4 these countries 4 easy vegetarian recipes

found some good ones on google can’t wait 2 make them 🙂

will post them if they r edible 😀

goodnight ◙

the abstract it simplifies it couscous

Impact of Behavioral Interventions in the Management of Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Abstract
Research on the role of behavior change as an efficacious intervention for adults with type 2 diabetes is evolving. Searching PubMed and Ovid Medline, we identified and reviewed primarily randomized controlled trials from 2010 to 2013 of adults managing type 2 diabetes without insulin. All studies are evaluated in terms of the rigor of their design and their impact on glycosylated hemoglobin. The most efficacious interventions appear to be low-carbohydrate/glycemic load diets, combined aerobic and resistance training, and self-monitoring of blood glucose, which educates patients about the impact of their food selections and physical activity on their blood glucose.

Impact of Behavioral Interventions in the Management of Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11892-013-0423-7#page-1

great can’ t 2 use my supertracker

2 create my reversible meal

due 2 ugh

the site says

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, this website is not available.

After funding has been restored, please allow some time for this website to

become available again.

ugh ugh

the world must be so embarrassed by our congress 🙁

well i’ll go read

ta ta all

couscous

i’m glad that u can still enjoy ur chocolate buttons 🙂

i’m going 2 have 2 figure out how 2 make some healthy chocolate

diabetic friendly w/ out the chemicals after this experiment

i read that atkins coconut or payday like bar is good

will have 2 research

delayed 2 13th day

fasting the last 2 days 500

due 2 error calculating a new meal on the last 11th day

usually when i buy a lentil product the amount of serving per container is 2

not this 1 it was 4 ugh hope it did not mess me up

it went way over

i did weigh this morning after 11 days

i have been a plateau since ? (it’s on my gov site that is still down ugh 🙁 )

always 196 195 194 193 up & down

so after 11 days w/ the messed up 11th experiment

i’m 192
that seems 2 be not allot
but the whole point is the reverse

so after these 2 fast days 2 complete this experiment

i’ll get a blood test

sounds like the 2 months 4 women is going 2 b in the horizon ugh

this is discouraging

need a hug

Speedy

thanks 4 the hug i really needed that hug

still do need many more

i think i’m going 2 take a vacation from all of this

then go back 2 the rhythm of the 5:2

& then get some courage 2 do it 2 months straight again this experiment

maybe using what the blogger did (link way way b low) the atkins advantage drinks

this is so depressing 2 know that my body would not relinquish even @ ave 800 cals 4 the wk w/ fasting

it would only relinquish 1 pound ugh 🙁

mayb i should go back 2 2000 on a 5/2

i dont know???????????????????????????

▶▶▶☞▶▶▶▶▶☞ however, the more i research it is also weight that is very much the key 2 reversing it ☜◀◀◀☜◀◀

so i’m not going 2 waste my $$$$ on a blood test when i lost only 1 lbs even w/ that miscalculation of cals on last day it is still not a great loss 🙁

found an article american diabetes assoc by uk professor Corresponding author: Roy Taylor, roy.taylor@ncl.ac.uk.

The extent of weight loss required to reverse type 2 diabetes is much greater than conventionally advised. A clear distinction must be made between weight loss that improves glucose control but leaves blood glucose levels abnormal and weight loss of sufficient degree to normalize pancreatic function. The Belfast diet study provides an example of moderate weight loss leading to reasonably controlled, yet persistent diabetes. This study showed that a mean weight loss of 11 kg decreased fasting blood glucose levels from 10.4 to 7.0 mmol/L but that this abnormal level presaged the all-too-familiar deterioration of control (87).

Data from the Swedish randomized study of gastric banding showed that a loss of 20% body weight was associated with long-term remission in 73% of a bariatric surgery group, with weight change itself being the principal determinant of glucose control (13). Dietary weight loss of 15 kg allowed for reversal of diabetes in a small group of individuals recently receiving a diagnosis (21).

FULL ARTICLE
Type 2 Diabetes
Etiology and reversibility

http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/36/4/1047.full

women it is 8 wks straight & all of them were recently diagnosed

this is not 4 over 2 yrs diagnosed they r going 2 study that in the future

i don’t know i’m so confused???????????????????????????????????

this is a guy b low WHO DID THE 11 DAYS

I reversed my diabetes in just 11 days – by going on a starvation diet

A family bereavement, high blood pressure, an unavoidable job change. I thought everything came in threes — but I was wrong. There was more bad news around the corner.

I was a fit 59-year-old and had just had an annual health check at my GP surgery. This revealed I had high blood sugar — 9millimoles per litre, whereas a normal level is 4-6mmol/l — and my doctor suggested I could have diabetes.

Further tests confirmed that, yes, I was type 2 diabetic. I was stunned. I have always been a healthy weight (I am 5ft 7in and just 10st 7lb), had no family history of diabetes, ate a healthy diet, never smoked, and I definitely did not have a sweet tooth.

Determined to find a solution, I began researching the condition and how to beat it.

In type 2 diabetes, the pancreas does not produce enough insulin to keep glucose levels normal (in type 1, the pancreas stops producing insulin altogether), and if I didn’t take action, I would be 36 per cent more likely to die early and could suffer bad sight, poor kidneys, heart failure and strokes. I’d also eventually be on medication.

My GP said that my diabetes was mild enough to be controlled through diet alone, and gave me a wad of leaflets on nutrition for diabetics. I took up salads, cut down on carbohydrates and ate my five-a-day — but progress was slow. Over seven months I shed a stone but my blood sugar was still too high — around 7mmol/l.

Not satisfied with this, further internet research threw up a more drastic approach. Scientists at Newcastle University had devised a radical low-calorie diet that studies suggested could reverse diabetes in under eight weeks.

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★☆★This involved eating just 800 calories a day (a man’s recommended intake is 2,500) — 600 calories from meal replacement shakes and soups and 200 calories from green vegetables. You also drink three litres of water a day.★☆★

The theory behind the diet, which is the brainchild of Roy Taylor, professor of medicine and metabolism at Newcastle University, is based on the fact that type 2 diabetes is often caused by fat clogging up the liver and pancreas, which are crucial in producing insulin and controlling blood sugar.

This is why weight gain is such a risk factor for the condition, particularly if that weight is carried around the belly and abdomen. However, there are some unfortunate people like myself who seem to be disposed to accumulating fat in the liver and pancreas, despite being a healthy weight.

Professor Taylor’s studies have shown that drastic dieting causes the body to go into starvation mode and burn fat stores for energy — and the fat around the organs seems to be targeted first.

This leads to the liver and pancreas becoming unclogged, and insulin and blood sugar levels returning to normal.

★☆★One study by Taylor’s team, published in 2011 in the journal Diabetologia, found that out of 11 type-2 diabetics following the diet, all reversed their diabetes in under eight weeks.★☆★

★☆★Further studies revealed that type 2 diabetics needed to lose one-sixth of their pre-diagnosis body weight to remove enough fat from the pancreas to allow normal insulin production to resume.★☆★

After contacting Professor Taylor, and getting the nod from my GP, I decided to follow the diet (experts warn never to start such a drastic regimen without first checking with your doctor). My target weight was 8st 12lb.

But surviving on a soup, two shakes and green veg (necessary to provide some fibre and keep the bowels healthy) wasn’t easy.

The diet involved eating just 800 calories a day compared to a man’s recommended intake is 2,500
The diet involved eating just 800 calories a day compared to a man’s recommended intake is 2,500

The first full day, a Sunday, I woke with no decent breakfast to look forward to — just some watery shake. (The meal-replacement shakes from the shops work fine — I used The Biggest Loser brand, but there are many available.)

After just one day my glucose levels had dropped from 6mmol/l to 5.9mmol/l. Hunger was never far away. But Professor Taylor said that the hunger pangs were something to celebrate, as it meant that the diet was working.

Toast yourself with water, he said, and the hunger will disappear. And it worked: I downed a pint of water and the hunger went.

★☆★The weight came off fast. By day three I had already lost 2lb.★☆★

Day four saw my glucose level plummet from 5.9mmol/l on the Sunday to 4.6mmol/l. I even started to get used to the idea of a shake for breakfast: thoughts of fresh crusty bread went out of the window. I was training my mind to reduce my choices and yet value the options remaining.

Lunch was my own delicious, thick mushroom soup (I blended mushrooms, onions, veg stock and herbs together), washed down with a cherry-flavoured shake. I gulped down a chicken soup supplement before leaving the office to see a play in the evening. Concentration levels were fine, but climbing up my local Tube station stairs afterwards was a real slog. I felt tired and lethargic.

The pattern continued each day. I experimented with more soups such as carrot, tomato and pea, baked veg, stir-fried veg, boiled veg and casseroles, liberally seasoned with herbs I’d never used before, such as cumin and paprika.

Some mornings I walked to work fine, others I was in a bit of a daze, and on certain days walking round the office was an effort. My family were concerned about me getting thinner and somewhat short-tempered.

Day six was a bad day. Despite it being mid July, I wore four layers of clothing to keep warm — and even then my fingers grew numb. I felt tired in the evening, and then constipation set in. Perhaps it was because I was not drinking enough water. Laxatives saved the day and the following morning I recorded my lowest overnight fasting glucose reading — 4.3mmol/l — a real boost.

On day eight I played cricket and it was hard watching teammates stuffing themselves with doughnuts. I had to toast a century-scoring colleague with water.

Three days on, I was down to 8st 13lb with my glucose level down to 4.1 mmol/l.

But I could not ignore concerned comments at work about my ‘shrinking’. Some of my clothes no longer fit me, and even I was slightly alarmed about how thin I had got in the face.

I was known as the ‘disappearing man’ by colleagues. It was time to stop the diet. (I then returned to a healthy wholegrain diet comprising lots of fruit and veg, chicken, fish and non-fatty foods).

Two months later, I got myself tested at the surgery to register a healthy, non-diabetic 5.1mmol/l and was elated when my GP told me: ‘Your diabetes has resolved itself.’

I had stuck to the diet for just 11 days, and reduced my blood sugar to a healthy non-diabetic level. It has remained that way for the past year — my latest reading was 4.9mmol/l. I have kept to just under 9st, joined a gym and gone running three times a week.

On Professor Taylor’s advice, I have also started building up my upper body muscle: bigger muscles soak up more glucose as energy, and thus prevent the body from storing more than it needs.
Professor Taylor started investigating the diet after he became intrigued by the observation that type 2 diabetes is reversed almost overnight in obese patients following gastric bypass surgery for weight loss.

‘The surgeons’ explanation was that it was something clever to do with gut hormones, which help control our appetite, but this was clearly unsatisfactory.’

Professor Taylor instead focused on the fact that patients were unable to eat much in the days following the surgery, and wondered if this could in fact be responsible for reversing diabetes.

‘I realised that this led to a sudden shift of fat away from the liver and pancreas. I thought we could test this by taking people with type 2 diabetes and mimicking the very sharp reduction in food intake after surgery.

‘I predicted this could strip fat out of the liver and pancreas and both organs would return to normal — and our subsequent work has confirmed this.’

★☆★And the work continues. Alan Tutty, 54, from Seaburn Dene, Sunderland, is one of 34 volunteers in Newcastle University’s second trial looking at longer term effects of the diet. In eight weeks between last November and January, he, too, successfully reversed his type 2 diabetes, shedding 26lb to reach his target weight of 13st 3lb.★☆★

‘Since coming off the diet, my weight has occasionally risen to 13st 9lb, but it’s always crept back down to 13st 5lb,’ he says.

The approach has been met with excitement by other experts in the field. James Walker, consultant diabetologist at Livingston hospital, West Lothian, believes the research challenged conventional thinking.

‘A lot of people have perhaps too simplistically thought that once the pancreas starts to fail, and stop producing insulin, it is an inevitable decline. But this diet challenges that.

‘And what is brilliant is that it works so quickly. We’ve even produced a little diet booklet in West Lothian for patients mainly nicking Roy’s ideas.’

★☆★Professor Taylor’s team is now looking at whether it works for those who have had type 2 for many years, and also whether the pancreas stays free of fat following the diet. ★☆★

The findings are due to be published next year. In the meantime, I’ll stick to my healthy diet to keep myself diabetes-free. I don’t fancy tackling those shakes again.

For more information, visit ncl.ac.uk and search for type 2 diabetes.

there is also a this blog this person did

http://cosmoscon.com/2013/09/03/reversing-type-2-diabetes/

do i understand the boredom on fast days

i’m wondering should i just get a bunch of celery like mimi

and come up vinaigrettes no oil different seasoning & munch all day when bored

what do u think?

thanks again 4 the hug 🙂

boy! i really just want 2 go buy a big family symphony hershey chocolate bar & enjoy it!!!!!! 🙁

ruthi,

thanks 4 the hug

i only took a vacay from the forum & everything

i’m not giving up never did

just needed some time 2 regroup

went back 2 my good old 5/2

i belonged 2 fitness pal b4 supertracker
so i was using that when it was not available

i just like it
it is very exacting & easier

concerning processed i cooked everything i had some organic amy lentil soup when i did not want 2 cook the cheese of course not i stopped the jello because of ur concerns that were correct concerning stevia or other alternative

so i don’t know what u r talking about?

how is ur grandson & daughter & u?

Annie Somerset

thanks 4 ur hugs 🙂

hi ruthi

high fat like avocado cream
cheese nuts

but carb cycle

root veggies i agree

not the caveman meat fat

one thing happened i’m more vegetarian

still will sprinkle egg fish & white meat along this lifestyle

i guess u missed it in my posts on my 11th day

i lost 1 measly pound ugh better than nothing

i really don’t like fitness pal u have 2 do so many things 2 track what ur eating it is so complicated u can’t c cals when u add unless u go 2 database then go back etc ugh ugh ugh

so when r u going back 2 give the parents another rest? 😀

Speedy

c post w/ lozlex want ur opinion 2

it does help 2 write it down keep writing it here

& ur right about the satisfaction factor w/ the 5/2

the carb cycling mod 80/low 20 and only one high carb day

the seeded red grapes i freeze them so that they r on my 1 feastday only best popsicle in the world. because ur right it is sugar

have u tried the olive oil mayo it is tasty & better 4 u

thanks 4 ur post it is nice 2 c we r not alone in these travails

happy nonfastdays & fastdays & 1 feastday 😀

hi 2 all,

this sentence really struck a chord

“but there are many people who try to eat well and don’t drink or eat sugary foods yet have diabetes” exactly me b4 being a diabetic

he is explaining how 2 reverse diabetes

i kind of knew deep down that this is very true

http://www.examiner.com/article/cardiologist-says-diabetes-can-easily-be-reversed-on-gluten-free-diet

very interesting letter from the cardiologist to Tom Hanks

never heard of him however he is talking about reversing type2 diabetes

i went 2 subscribe 2 his blog

An open letter to Tom Hanks: Don’t be diabetic!

Posted on October 9, 2013 by Dr. Davis

Tom Hanks announced on the David Letterman Show that he was diagnosed with diabetes after many years of struggles with blood sugar. All the news media have captured the story; here’s the USA Today story.

Mr. Hanks seems like a genuinely nice guy. So here is my open letter to him. Should he stumble on it, it provides the blueprint that I have been using to get rid of diabetes, a very realistic prospect for most people with diabetes–if they choose to do it and stick to it.

Now, not knowing the full details of Mr. Hanks health and lab values, I make the assumption that he is a type 2 diabetic. Adults can indeed develop type 1 (which is often triggered by wheat, by the way, via autoimmunity). Adults can also develop a sort of diabetes often regarded as in-between types 1 and 2 called the Latent Autoimmune Diabetes of Adulthood (LADA), though it behaves more like type 1. (There are also other forms, though rare, such as type 1 diabetes that develops from pancreatic disease beyond autoimmune beta cell destruction.) Because type 2 diabetes is, by far, the most common and the form that is driving the nationwide epidemic, I will assume that is the form Mr. Hanks shares. (LADA is next in line.)

Dear Mr. Hanks–

I believe it was very courageous to share your diagnosis on television with a national audience. I am sure you will be flooded by well-wishers as well as many people with advice. I’d nonetheless like to alert you to several issues relevant to diabetes:

–The majority of diabetes is reversible. Most people can make the choice to have diabetes or to not have it. I hope that you choose not to have it. This is because it is caused by diet. Sadly, it is caused by conventional advice to “cut your fat and eat healthy whole grains.” People often blame too many soft drinks and junk food, but there are many people like you who, I’m sure, try to eat well and don’t drink or eat sugary foods–yet have diabetes. This is due to grains.

More than sugary foods, grains raise blood sugar to high levels. The glycemic indexes, for instance, of whole wheat bread, oatmeal, and multigrain breads are among the highest of all foods. They ENSURE having high blood sugars. (To see for yourself, use your glucose meter and check a blood sugar immdiately prior to a meal; consume the food in question, then recheck a blood sugar at 1-hour after eating, not 2 hours as often advised to assess the adequacy of blood sugar control on diabetes medication. You want the blood sugar peak, which is around 1 hour. You will see blood sugars of 200, 250, or 300 mg/dl after eating grains.) High blood sugars from “healthy whole grains” are also toxic to the beta cells of the pancreas (“glucotoxicity”), making blood sugars go even higher. In some people, the loss of beta cells means there can be no reversing diabetes, but this is less common early in the diagnosis.

–Ignore conventional dietary advice. Even better, do the opposite. Unfortunately, in the world of conventional diabetes advice, including that from most healthcare professionals, “Stupid is as stupid does.” The diet advised for people with diabetes makes fasting blood sugar and HbA1c (the 90-day measure of blood sugar) go higher, not lower.

–There are a number of other reasons that grains, especially wheat (white and whole) can be blamed: The gliadin protein of wheat is degraded in the gastrointestinal tract to small peptides that act as opiates and bind to the opiate receptors of the human brain. This triggers appetite for carbohydrates, the worst foods to eat for anyone with diabetes. Wheat germ agglutinin, another protein in wheat, blocks leptin and cholecystokinin, both of which should trigger satiety. In the presence of wheat, appetite is not satisfied.

Beyond the powerful strategy of grain elimination, we do not restrict fats but get plenty of olive oil, coconut oil, and the fats from animal organs and meats and supplement with:

–Vitamin D–The insulin-sensitizing effects of raising your 25-hydroxy vitamin D level to 60-70 ng/ml helps regain control over blood sugar. A typical male requires 6000 units of D3 in gelcap form to achieve this level.

–Magnesium supplementation–While the effect is modest, correcting common magnesium deficiencies stacks the odds in your favor of regaining control over blood sugar. I advocate magnesium malate, 1200 mg, twice per day.

–Omega-3 fatty acids–from fish oil. After eating a meal, there is a flood of particles in the bloodstream (lipoproteins), representing the digestive byproducts of the foods consumed. These particles can block insulin. Omega-3 fatty acids from fish oil activate an enzyme that accelerates clearance of after-meal lipoproteins, reducing their insulin-blocking effect. I advocate 3000-3600 mg per day of the EPA + DHA omega-3 fatty acids, divided in two doses for assured day-long reduction of lipoproteins.

Those of us who follow the above principles drop fasting blood sugar and HbA1c precipitously, often enough to get off medication, reduce HbA1c into the 5.0% range, and become assuredly NON-diabetic. Even if you are among the few who have impaired pancreatic beta cells and produce insufficient insulin, elimination of grains will minimize need for medications. And, by the way, we should also pass this information onto David Letterman, who also admitted to having high blood sugars during your interview.

My sincerest hopes that you benefit from these suggestions, I remain

William Davis, MD
Author, Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health

http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2013/10/an-open-letter-to-tom-hanks-dont-be-diabetic/

Q: How does wheat make us fat, exactly?

A: It contains amylopectin A, which is more efficiently converted to blood sugar than just about any other carbohydrate, including table sugar. In fact, two slices of whole wheat bread increase blood sugar to a higher level than a candy bar does. And then, after about two hours, your blood sugar plunges and you get shaky, your brain feels foggy, you’re hungry. So let’s say you have an English muffin for breakfast. Two hours later you’re starving, so you have a handful of crackers, and then some potato chips, and your blood sugar rises again. That cycle of highs and lows just keeps going throughout the day, so you’re constantly feeling hungry and constantly eating. Dieticians have responded to this by advising that we graze throughout the day, which is just nonsense. If you eliminate wheat from your diet, you’re no longer hungry between meals because you’ve stopped that cycle. You’ve cut out the appetite stimulant, and consequently you lose weight very quickly. I’ve seen this with thousands of patients.

Q: But I’m not overweight and I exercise regularly. So why would eating whole wheat bread be bad for me?

A: You can trigger effects you don’t perceive. Small low-density lipoprotein [LDL] particles form when you’re eating lots of carbohydrates, and they are responsible for atherosclerotic plaque, which in turn triggers heart disease and stroke. So even if you’re a slender, vigorous, healthy person, you’re still triggering the formation of small LDL particles. And second, carbohydrates increase your blood sugars, which cause this process of glycation, that is, the glucose modification of proteins. If I glycate the proteins in my eyes, I get cataracts. If I glycate the cartilage of my knees and hips, I get arthritis. If I glycate small LDL, I’m more prone to atherosclerosis. So it’s a twofold effect. And if you don’t start out slender and keep eating that fair trade, organically grown whole wheat bread that sounds so healthy, you’re repeatedly triggering high blood sugars and are going to wind up with more visceral fat. This isn’t just what I call the wheat belly that you can see, flopping over your belt, but the fat around your internal organs. And as visceral fat accumulates, you risk responses like diabetes and heart disease.

i guess my homemade multigrain bread should be another kind of flower

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/09/your-addiction-to-wheat-products-is-making-you-fat-and-unhealthy/245526/

Ruthi

yepper it was in that starvation mode refusing 2 give

well @ least it broke the plateau

but now it goes up & down but still lower 🙂

i always said 2 my clients

most people do not like 2 complain or b confrontational but please please do so that we can solve it or eliminate it
otherwise we would never know. good luck in finding the correct person 2 keep ur biz humming 😀

nov should be great how is the weather in the pyrennes?

so what do u think about this dr?

“The majority of diabetes is reversible. Most people can make the choice to have diabetes or to not have it. I hope that you choose not to have it. This is because it is caused by diet. Sadly, it is caused by conventional advice to “cut your fat and eat healthy whole grains.” People often blame too many soft drinks and junk food, but there are many people like you who, I’m sure, try to eat well and don’t drink or eat sugary foods–yet have diabetes. This is due to grains.”

this resonates hard

happy nonfastdays & fastdays

Ruthi

yes they do tend 2 forget the basics of science

hy·poth·e·sis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

noun
a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation.

i agree it is more complex there is allot more 2 it

this forum & lifestyle has helped me look @ the cold hard facts

i do have 2 be the guinea pig
2 @ least try

i mean all those years of being that organic whole grain person w/ no sugar healthy cooking bla bla bla wood stove organic gardening living off the earth basically a flower child yadayadaya

BIG BOMB DROPPED!!
weight increase
& type2
& high-blood pressure
& cholesterol
through me 4 a super big looop!

while my whole family (except my mom & dad) eats super big bags of peanut mm’s they cringe @ my brown rice wholegrain bread prefer white french bread eat anything & they r overweight but w/ not 1 medical problem (which i’m very glad) my dad/mom skinny super healthy both die 1 of heart 1 of leukemia

it is such a contrast it is so so weird!!!!!!

i just have faulty genes something turned on the bad stuff

when u read of how genes turn on & off

or macrobiotic the gut
it is an interesting world the science

u luv sugar but r not a type2 right?

happy nonfastdays & fastdays

couscous,

as i said in previous post

well @ least it broke the plateau
but now it goes up & down but still lower 😀

i also wrote 2 u just this day on the 70%

still not found?

what do u think about the cardiologist?

thanks

happy nonfastdays & fastdays