"Ranee Mueller" > wrote in message
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>
> I have a condition that I've had since I was a teenager, and it
has
> many complicated side effects on my health. Anyway, recently a
doctor
> told me that it may be related to insulin resistance, >
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> Thank you!
>
> Regards,
> Ranee
>
THE authority on low carbohydrate diets is the late Robert Atkins,
M.D. His _early_ books are the definitive source of his thousands of
clinical trials. (Perhaps you can still locate them at a source like
Amazon.com.) I shall not make any attempt here to go into the details
of this regimen, as Dr. Atkins has spelled it all out in his books

The LAST person to have been trained in anything of this sort is a
Registered Dietician, then comes your physician. they still believe
there is nutritional value in pasta (not as much as in Wonder Bread),
but a wonderful fun/fake food nevertheless. I am personally
acquainted with several R.D.'s whom I am very fond of, but their
dietary ignorance (from the University programs they were trained
with - financed by the food industry) is jaw-droppingly abysmal.

My personal dietary experience is based upon my hypersensitivity to
any commercially produced foods that trigger a rush of insulin that
put me to sleep for 30 minutes. Maintaining my weight, not reducing
it, has always been my goal.

Only with, and because of ,a lower (read: controlled) carbohydrate
diet was I finally able to keep my head & body balanced. This was an
enormous victory and a protocol that I have followed easily &
successfully for 20 years. ***It is simplicity itself: learn how to
count grams of carbohydrates (charts abound) and keep records
initially on how you feel after a day of 'x' number of grams of
carbohydrate. One hundred grams per day is the usual middle ground,
and you can go up or down from there. Keep tweeking your intake until
you feel/know you are well-balanced.*** There is nothing radical in
this approach and nothing dangerous to you and/or a fetus/nursing
child. The only extremes of a low carbohydrate diet are experienced
by those who wish to lose substantial amounts of weight - not your
goal.

No comment on any medication, as that is not my field. However, since
your physician's first resort was to medication instead of regulating
your carbohydrate intake, that should tell you all you need to know
about his training in all matters dietary. Caveat emptor.

If your condition is insulin-related, there is everything to gain and
nothing to lose by giving this protocol a genuine test.

Best of the best to you,

--
Mabry
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