foods to control diabetes naturally there is maybe not a single topic with
more confusion than that of insulin resistance and carbohydrates so we're
going to take a look at it and clear it up coming right up so obesity is rampant
diabetes and insulin resistance is just as rampant or maybe even more and yet
the official guidelines don't make a whole lot of sense when you look at them
more closely so here's what everyone agrees upon diabetes is the same as
insulin resistance and we're talking type-2 diabetes not type 1 which is a
pathology it's a disease of the pancreas and the insulin producing cells but
diabetes type 2 is the same thing as insulin resistance the body cannot
produce enough insulin because the cells are resistant so the blood sugar keeps
going up there is no disagreement on that point and then there is also no
disagreement that low glycemic index foods are better than high glycemic
index foods in terms of managing diabetes so blase emic index is a
measurement of how quickly blood sugar Rises in response to eating a certain
food so they know that it is about insulin resistance they know it's about
blood sugar they know carbohydrates raise blood sugar and they know that the
foods that raise blood sugar more are worse than the foods that doesn't raise
it quite as much complete total agreement but then is where it all falls
apart then they say in order to treat diabetes in order to treat insulin
resistance in order to manage it the best you want to eat low glycemic index
foods and they define high GI foods as over 70 as medium 69 to 56 and low
glycemic index foods are less than 55 so then you go
look up what are the best low glycemic index foods and these are the ones
recommended by the diabetes.org and I looked up the glycemic index values on
Google and some of them were in the Google headings under WebMD and Mayo
Clinic and some were under on lists posted by health harvard.edu and
University Health News comm and according to diabetes.org the best low
glycemic index foods are muesli glycemic index 86 whole wheat bread 74 sweet
potato 60 pumpernickel whole grain rye bread 56 they say to eat plenty of
oatmeal which in its more whole form like old-fashioned rolled oats would be
55 and instant oatmeal would be 79 most fruit should is 40 to 65 they say pasta
is 47 lentils is 42 and the closest they get to something healthy is butter beans
at 31 so they tell you to eat a diet with plenty of whole grain carbohydrates
which we see ends up mostly in this range with maybe pasta slipping down a
little bit into the green range and when you look for how much carbohydrate you
should eat then diabetes.org Health Line Mayo Clinic WebMD and all registered
dietitians they keep reiterating the same numbers it's almost like Dogma
let's not question these numbers 45 to 65% of calories should come from
carbohydrate that makes it about 250 to 300 grams of carbohydrate per day and
they should be whole-grain low carbohydrates such as the ones we've
shown here froot oatmeal pasta muesli whole-wheat
bread sweet potato that's what they tell you to eat a lot of that's the best low
glycemic index foods for managing insulin resistance and diabetes and I
just have to wonder have they never ever heard of foods that are really low in
glycemic index wouldn't it make sense if we know that place low glycemic index is
better then why wouldn't we look for foods that are really low as opposed to
just a little bit lower than the absolute worst maybe it's just me I
don't know but let's look here once we get down to really really low numbers
like less than 15 such as avocados non starchy vegetables lettuce spring mix
power greens kale and things like coconuts coconut cream and most nuts
walnuts pecans macadamia nuts extremely low glycemic index and if you eat
something like power greens or spinach if you eat a whole tub a pound it's like
one of those big big boxes it has 5 grams of net carbs at a glycemic index
of about 15 you cannot eat enough non starchy vegetables to raise your blood
sugar it isn't possible so wouldn't it be better to eat a whole lot of those
and not so much of those and then we get to the real superfoods in terms of
turning around insulin resistance and this is these are things like meat fish
butter eggs extra virgin olive oil anything that is essentially carb free
in nature has a zero glycemic index but it's like they
never even heard of these foods they keep just quoting each other and talking
about whole-grain carbohydrates 300 grams a day and a low glycemic index as
being less than 55 so I think it's time for us to wake up and I don't know why
they are so inconsistent they know lower glycemic index is better and yet they've
never heard of these foods that most people who are doing ketogenic diets are
thriving on the only thing I can think of is that they bought in so
wholeheartedly into the fat phobia and the dogma that grains are necessary and
carbohydrates are necessary that they never really question it they bought it
so wholeheartedly they have so much invested that they're just quoting each
other and never really looking at what's going on I don't have an answer I have
no idea how they can be so inconsistent but I hope this helps to wake you up and
open your eyes a little bit and don't ever call a low glycemic index of 55 low
glycemic realize that low glycemic index is zero or in the single digits or teens
that's low glycemic index that's where you're gonna reverse insulin resistance
and you can create a healthy whole food diet entirely based on foods below 20 if
you occasionally wants to know I'll have a barrier or a fruit that gets a little
bit higher or maybe some butter beans then then so be it but if you're trying
to reverse insulin resistance then stay away from the official guidelines not
only do they not manage or reverse insulin resistance but they create it so
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related to insulin resistance and the way to reverse it is to eat truly low
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