Carb Creep – A Common Complication of Meat-Based Diets For Type 2 Diabetes!
For over a hundred years doctors have promoted one version or another of the popular Atkins diet as a treatment for Type 2 diabetes. The idea is that if you just don’t eat carbohydrates, your blood sugar levels will normalize on their own. If you cut out the bread, the potatoes, the pasta, and desserts, and then cut back on the carrots, beets, and tomatoes too, then you have a rough approximation of the kind of diet millions of Type 2 diabetics use to control their blood sugars.
But most of those Type 2 diabetics notice their blood sugar levels creeping back up after a few months. The reason for this is a combination of poor portion control and increased insulin resistance called ‘carb creep’.
A high-protein, high-fat diet isn’t the best way to fight insulin resistance. Your cells do become less insulin-resistant as blood sugar levels go down, but they become more insulin resistant as they are exposed to saturated fat, which is abundant in a meat-heavy diet.
As long as the Type 2 diabetic is strictly regulating their carbohydrate intake, the added insulin resistance may not result in higher blood sugar levels. When just a little carbohydrate is added back to the diet, however, as little as 2 to 4 grams a day (the equivalent of a couple of carrot sticks), blood sugars begin to creep up.
The simple fact is that most Type 2 diabetics find strict low-carb diets, the kind of low-carb diets that don’t even permit fresh leafy salad greens… unsustainable over the long run. There is also some evidence that all the saturated fat in a meat-based diet can interfere with thyroid function by interfering with the transformation of the thyroid hormone from its storage form (T4) to its active form (T3). And when you get off that diet, blood sugars will begin to rise slowly, but your weight may rise very quickly.
In fact, it takes just 6oz (100g) of excess carbohydrate for you to regain 2 pound (about 1kg). That’s because the carbohydrate gets stored in your liver in the form of glycogen, which combines each molecule of sugar with four molecules of water. A little extra carbohydrate gets combined with a lot of extra water weight.
Most Type 2 diabetics find that a diet providing carbohydrate from abundant servings of raw, sun-dried, and lightly cooked vegetables along with 1 or 2 pieces of fruit a day controls their blood sugar levels and satisfies their appetite. The advantage of a wholesome plant-foods diet is that it works for you and keeps on working without the problem of carb creep.
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