can low carb diet cure diabetes? or get it enough under control to not need insulin.?

I have type II diabetes and have been taking oral medication (pills) for it. I admit that I haven’t tried too hard to eat right but now I want to get healthier and lose weight and most of all get rid of the diabetes. I am planning to do Atkins, which is low carb diet. Will low carb dieting lower and regulate my blood sugar and get rid of diabetes? Will it at least control it enough to not need the insulin (in small dose for now) that my doctor wants me to start taking. Please help!

8 Responses to “can low carb diet cure diabetes? or get it enough under control to not need insulin.?”

  • Maggie May says:

    Absolutely! Eating better will help control the fluctuations of your blood glucose levels, and in turn reduce the amount of insulin you need. Simple Carbs are mostly sugar anyways, and the less sugar in your diet the better!

  • hinda98 says:

    Absolutely see your doctor and then get on it! My husband was off of insulin (and onto pills) within 12 days of starting Atkins. Low carb certainly can help control blood sugar levels!!

  • Blossom says:

    You might also like to look into grapefruit. They’ve discovered it can help lower control insulin release and therefore your hunger and craving for carbs, but I would check it is okay with the doc first because is interacts badly with some drugs. As for low carb diet – cut right down on starches but not all your fruit and veggies!

  • roymayramariacesillia says:

    no it cant go away but you can control it and live as a normal person and you may not need insulin!

  • r.thiruvelan says:

    Yes when you go for low carb diet then you can’t need insulin, but you can’t stop your oral medication. Because you need it to maintain the blood sugar level. If your are interested to know about diabetes its cause and its treatment with alternative medicine such as herbs, homeopathy, yoga and acupressure, then you can visit;

  • cykotica78 says:

    Yes, but I highly suggest that you get your doctor to get you a referral to a diabetic educator before starting a diet. One thing I learned, is that I really didn’t know anything about food and the way inwhich it affected my blood sugar levels.

    My educator taught me about not only the way to eat, but the right things to eat.

  • Tin S says:

    Probably will work for you . Yes a low glycemic diet is in order. You need a GLYCEMIC INDEX. You will find it easier than Adkins Diet. And works better. Heres the website:http://www.mendosa.com/gilists.htm

    The glycemic load (GL) is a relatively new way to assess the impact of carbohydrate consumption that takes the glycemic index into account, but gives a fuller picture than does glycemic index alone. A GI value tells you only how rapidly a particular carbohydrate turns into sugar. It doesn’t tell you how much of that carbohydrate is in a serving of a particular food. You need to know both things to understand a food’s effect on blood sugar. That is where glycemic load comes in. The carbohydrate in watermelon, for example, has a high GI. But there isn’t a lot of it, so watermelon’s glycemic load is relatively low. A GL of 20 or more is high, a GL of 11 to 19 inclusive is medium, and a GL of 10 or less is low.

    Foods that have a low GL almost always have a low GI. Foods with an intermediate or high GL range from very low to very high GI.

    Both GI and GL are listed here. The GI is of foods based on the glucose index–where glucose is set to equal 100. The other is the glycemic load, which is the glycemic index divided by 100 multiplied by its available carbohydrate content (i.e. carbohydrates minus fiber) in grams. (The “Serve size (g)” column is the serving size in grams for calculating the glycemic load; for simplicity of presentation I have left out an intermediate column that shows the available carbohydrates in the stated serving sizes.) Take, watermelon as an example of calculating glycemic load. Its glycemic index is pretty high, about 72. According to the calculations by the people at the University of Sydney’s Human Nutrition Unit, in a serving of 120 grams it has 6 grams of available carbohydrate per serving, so its glycemic load is pretty low, 72/100*6=4.32, rounded to 4.
    This has a list of 2, 480 foods.

    It should be your eating bible for life. Take care >

    Use ¼ to ½ teaspoon of cinnamon per day. Add it to your coffee, oatmeal, smoothie, or wherever you find it palatable.
    If you already suffer from diabetes, be sure to stay on a regular schedule with your cinnamon usage so that your blood sugar levels don’t yo-yo.Use the same amount at the same time every day so that you can get a sense of how cinnamon affects your own personal blood sugar readings.
    Use the powdered spice or a cinnamon stick. Cinnamon pills are also available, and can be found easily via an online search. MHCP is water soluble and is not found in cinnamon oil.

    Lime and lemon juice delay the digestion of starches as does vinegar. I’ve found that 2-3 tablespoons of lime or lemon juice reduces my post prandial BG response by 10-20 points. Rick Mendosa’s site has a lot of material on acids in the diet. Take a look at http://www.mendosa.com/acidic_foods.htm .

  • Nomad D says:

    There is no known cure for diabetes, but, yes, a low-carb diet combined with exercise can potentially improve glucose levels in type 2 diabetes to the point where you would no longer need to use medication to treat it.

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