A rather surprising statement about this is made around the 1:15:00 mark in this video by Dr. Lustig. This is certainly encouraging to know that diabetes sufferers do have this option. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2787021/
Keto is about the same: Veggies, Protein and Water. REDUCE big time sugars and carbs... I quit bring that Dead Bread into my house probably 12 yrs ago.....
Wow!!!! Thank you for this interesting comment Joyce Martino. I have been kind of lazy... but I do believe that every word that Stanley Jacob M. D. wrote about methyl suphonyl methane is true! www.msm-info.com/
The "Paleolithic Diet" has high amounts of protein and vegetables, but very low carbohydrates, since everything is uncooked.
The connection between sugar consumption and diabetes was suspected by 1845: In 1845, Claude Bernard wrote in his red notebook, “The digestion of carbohydrates takes place in two steps; first: transformation into glucose, second: glucose is burned in the lung. If this doesn’t happen, diabetes occurs.” Claude Bernard asked, “Is this true?” The physician William Harvey attended lectures in Paris on diabetes management given by Claude Bernard. Back in England William Banting visited William Harvey and followed his advice. In 1863, Banting wrote a booklet called Letter on Corpulence, Addressed to the Public[6] which contained the particular plan for the diet he followed. It was written as an open letter in the form of a personal testimonial. Banting accounted all of his unsuccessful fasts, diets, spa and exercise regimens in his past. His previously unsuccessful attempts had been on the advice of various medical experts. He then described the dietary change which finally had worked for him, following the advice of another medical expert. "My kind and valued medical adviser is not a doctor for obesity, but stands on the pinnacle of fame in the treatment of another malady, which, as he well knows, is frequently induced by [corpulence]." (p24) His own diet was four meals per day, consisting of meat, greens, fruits, and dry wine. The emphasis was on avoiding sugar, saccharine matter, starch, beer, milk and butter. (the salt in butter stimulates production of insulin) Banting was correct.
Excess sugar in the blood is normally transported by insulin into the cells and there sequestered as fat, so avoiding high levels of sugar in the blood will prevent type 2 diabetes and at the same time reduce obesity. Our forefathers knew all this yet in 1980 it went out in the trash:
Fruit juice is just wonderful tasting sugar water and will promote tooth decay, diabetes and obesity. The fiber in fruit is what makes the difference. It greatly slows absorption of the fructose.
The order you eat food matters. You should start the day off eating vegetables first. It helps stabilize your blood sugar for the rest of the day and reduce cravings.
With reference to the thread title, the origin of the Banting diet was the research of Claude Bernard into diabetes, and yes in 1845 they had already worked out that removing sugar from the diet helped control diabetes. I've read the S.A.D. (Standard American Diet) is 42% sugar measured by calories, and is therefore effectively a membership of death row.
Banting's own experience revealed that removing sugar, starch and beer also reduced corpulence (obesity) because the body moves sugar from the blood stream into cells and stores it there as fat to protect against excessive sugar in the bloodstream and, more significantly for most of our existence, to store fat for the winter or any time of famine. The sugar in the bloodstream itself causes damage, and increases insulin resistance which is the path to (type 2) diabetes but additionally the fat advances diabetes by absorbing insulin which appears never to saturate the fat but the fat keeps absorbing insulin and it degrades during storage in the fat, so is lost forever. This requires addition of insulin to over come both the insulin resistance and the losses in the fat.
Improve diet gradually Any change in diet must be accomplished over a period of time, a month or two, for several reasons. Increasing fat consumption requires the body to make more bile to digest it. Fiber is also more difficult to digest than sugar and simple carbs. Another factor is the microbe population of the digestive tract - microbes able to digest the new diet need time to multiply.
BRAT - a recovery diet Starting a healthy diet is a gradual process and after a bout of sickness it will be necessary to restart the digestive system with many sips of water or rehydration fluid, and gradual introduction progressing slowly from top to bottom of what I call a 'recovery diet'. Ice chips to slow the intake of water Water, broth, decaf teas, clear fruit juice Electrolyte beverages Peppermint tea Bananas rice applesauce toast Crackers pretzels plain potato eggs, low-fat poultry & meat fruit (courtesy of health line) Two reasons for a recovery diet are 1. A healthy diet places heavy demands on the digestive system as both fat and fiber are a lot of work to digest and require restocking digestive substances. 2. A person recovering after a bout of D & V is likely to be very hungry and eat too much all at once, and then throw it all up again. Then back to square one. So eat a little and often. If you are a person who can successfully do intermittent fasting and ketogenic diet, consider taking a few weeks to get all the way back into it.
In addition to the damage sugar and simple carbs do, there's the problem of empty calories. A person will hunger/have cravings, until receiving enough of each required nutrient. 'His (Banting's medical advisor's) own diet was four meals per day, consisting of meat, greens, fruits, and dry wine.' Note therefore the greens and the fruits. Dried fruit is often a good substitute, but don't over eat dried or other fruit as it may ferment in the gut and cause pain. And given the amount of damage today's typical US diet does, I'd avoid the alcohol as well. Julia Ross has written books on what to eat and why.
Why is our present day diet so bad when they had it right all those years ago? There has been some research published on this question and bits I recall are that there was a question of why heart attacks were becoming common, and the obvious culprit was sugar but that would have harmed the soft drinks industry and sugar industry, so some bribes were paid and the blame was put on animal fats and cholesterol. And that blame has been propagated down the line in medical advice and official guidelines, the food pyramid, and cookbooks.
Well it cuts out all the refined sugars and all of the fake sugars that are not really chemically a problem for people. Put another thing it does is it cuts out almost all convenience foods and if you're just going to cook stuff at home just cook stuff at home you don't have to worry about paleo
