Tue, Sep-08-15, 08:21
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Plan: Atkins, sort of
Stats: 184/166/152
BF:
Progress: 56%
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Type II or Type I
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Originally Posted by JEY100
I think testing your own BG at home, before and after eating certain foods, is one of the most powerful tools you can buy OTC to see what diet is doing to your health. I resisted pricking myself a few years, my annual BG was OK, but what happens between that one snapshot is important. Sorry for the hijack, but...
Type 2 at 15? He should get the message now that diabetes is not a chronic and progressive disease and can be reversed through diet. If appropriate to share, a teen may respond well to video info, consider these two new talks.
Dr Hallberg: https://youtu.be/Aw0HipUPrXs
Dr Jason Fung's view ....Big Lie #1: Type 2 Diabetes is a chronic, progressive disease. Truth #1: Type 2 Diabetes is a curable dietary disease. It cannot be cured with medication though.
Big Lie #2: Lowering blood sugars is the goal of treatment. Truth #2: The cure for Type 2 Diabetes is to lower insulin, not blood sugar.
There is a newer version of this talk, but this one is freely available
Dr Fung: http://youtu.be/FcLoaVNQ3rc |
Actually I was wrong. It's Type I. It seems to have come out of the blue. We saw him a while ago and he was normal weight but very thirsty. Apparently he collapsed at school and got taken to hospital.
Perhaps when he's older he may want to explore different treatments but as of now he is having to monitor his blood sugar 6 times a day and take insulin 4 times a day. |