Dr Kash, I’m humbled by your kind comments.
Keith

I must do a mini-book on that, it’s important.
Meantime, I think I remember a good piece by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger at HealthNews
You’ll have to Google it.

You’re way off Jan and have clearly bought in to the propaganda fed to you.
We are naturally hunter-gatherer’s and this group never get diabetes.
Meat, fish, fruit and veg. Where’s the carbs in that?
You’ve adopted the line that the food industry wants you and everybody else to believe: we need carbs and we needs complex carbs etc.
It’s all bunk. Grains and starches are NO PART of our natural diet.
I wish you well with your type 1. But you won’t beat it till you listen to those who have beaten it! If you go along with ANYTHING said by those who make it a lifelong disease, then you’ll have a lifelong disease!
Prof.

She told me that a low-carb diet runs the risk of ketosis, and can deplete the liver of its glucogen stores. I agree that some people go overboard with this diet to a dangerous degree. This is undoubtedly why Ken Rebong complained of elevated uric acid levels.

Also, I disagree with the author’s premise above. He states, “If diabetes is a disease which cannot safely handle carbs, why is God’s name tell patients to eat the stuff? It has never made sense.” This is twisted logic.

The body needs balanced levels of carbs, proteins, and fats to maintain a healthy equilibrium. Carbs and 50% of proteins give the cells the glucose they need to operate correctly. Fats help slow down the process to a nice smooth rate. All three are necessary elements of a healthy diet.

To say that, “diabetes is a disease which cannot safely handle carbs” is completely misrepresenting the situation. A more correct assessment is to say that the body needs carbs to operate, but diabetes is a disease wherein people have lost the insulin needed to process carbs correctly. So by taking insulin, you’re simply restoring the body to its natural state.

Paying attention to the glycemic index can absolutely have helpful affects. Also, it’s totally safe to experiment with different carb rates to see how it affects performance. But to strive towards extreme lows — or even eliminating — carbs can have seriously dangerous long-term consequences.

Rebecca..hi, I am retired from the medical field and spent many years struggling with “script overdose 101″Not really having the research knowledge at the time many drugs have been handed out and then later we see many other situations that come from the side effects. Type II diabetes is in epic proportions and improper eating and seditary life has played a part..but there has to be other contributing factors. I am in contact with several other physicians that research this area and are coming up with new info daily..by the way they have recently considered lowering the normal 100-125 range to 60-90 which will put even more in the category typeII..I am going to eliminate the carbs as Dr. Keith-Scaott suggested 1-2 weeks and will report back…weedbychoice

“I’ve cured thousands of diabetics by simply saying ‘Do not eat carbohydrates.'”

So what is wrong with this picture? Yet another doctor adding to the confusion between refined carbs, starchy carbs and junk food vs whole, plant food, complex carbs. I would prefer to give patients the benefit of the doubt so far as intelligence goes and explain the difference to them. There is a whole crew of doctors out there who have been doing this for many years… Fuhrman, McDougall, Barnard, Shitani, Ornish, Esselstyn….

People need to understand the difference between starchy carbs and those found in non-starchy veggies, but they always seem to be lumped together in peoples’ minds and even in books. We can eat lots of green leaves and low carb vegetables without affecting blood sugar adversely.

Diabetics also need to get the message that just keeping their blood sugar under control doesn’t stop the damage to their bodies, so they will be motivated to stop the starchy carbs and get well. Of course, they need to know they CAN get well, and most doctors aren’t telling them that, probably because they don’t know it themselves.