"Mabry" > wrote in message
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> "Ranee Mueller" > wrote in message
> ...
>>
>> 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, >
> [snipped]
>> 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

No offense to you, but Atkins was a quack.