lo carb vs ADA

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>. Some of us can handle pastas, breads, >etc. Some cannot.

The above statement is a little bit misleading as is the YMMV that keeps getting tossed around.

Carbohydrates break down into sugar at a much higher rate than protein or fats.

It is true that some can tolerate pasta, bread, rice etc better than others. The reason isn't that "some people can tolerate these things and some can't" , the reason is that the people who can tolerate these things haven't progressed in their diabetes to the point where they can't. Diabetes is a progressive disease. At first you can handle many foods if you are exercising and exerting some control over your eating, however the key is WHY you can tolerate these foods. When you are type II your body is resistant to the insulin you make. At first your body starts making more and more and more insulin to overcome this, and it works for awhile but gradually the resistance gets worse and your body can't make enough insulin to batter down the walls. At first, because your body is making this excess insulin, you don't show up as being diabetic. The only way to test for this would be to test for insulin levels which doctors rarely do, they depend instead on blood glucose levels.

Once you reach the point where the insulin isn't working well anymore, if your diabetes is caught and you diet and exercise, you'll do well. At that point, if you were lucky enough to catch it at that point, diet and exercise will appear to handle it, however, if you are eating high carb levels, you are still forcing your body to create that excess insulin and are overtaxing your beta cells.

You have to think about more than what your meter shows each day. That isn't the end of it.

Keeping your carb levels lowered will help you in the long run immensely.

Having said that, I will still say (and have said repeatedly on this list): if you can find a diet, any diet, that helps you lose weight and you are happy on it then DO IT. Weight loss is the number one way to lower your resistance to insulin. If you can lose weight and keep it off you will find your diabetes much easier to control.

There are people who have a different type of diabetes, who aren't overweight and who's problem is they aren't making enough insulin (they may be resistant also), they are rarer and there is still a lot of research going on about them.

Meenie