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"Let
your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food."
Hippocrates
“No one has ever explained to me how you can
ask someone to lower their blood sugar level and yet recommend a
diet based on sugar.” Dr Charles Clark, Diabetes expert.
Hello and welcome to The Low Carb Diabetic. My
name is Eddie and I am a type 2 diabetic. I was diagnosed in March
2008 my blood glucose level was 26.4 and my Hba1c was 11.4.
Two weeks after I was diagnosed, my father died
from diabetic complications. He had followed the advice of his
healthcare professionals, and ate the food as recommended. Eating
starchy carbohydrate food with every meal, and trying to keep high
blood glucose numbers down, with ever increasing amounts of injected
insulin and many other prescribed drugs. That diet was recommended
to me by my healthcare team, and is the type of diet promoted by
DUK, the largest diabetes charity in the UK. After two months of
following the recommended diet, and trying to control my blood
glucose, and never seeing a lower number than 12 on my blood glucose
meter, I started to become very concerned. Through basic research, I
had learned that blood glucose numbers this high are dangerous.
Having witnessed at first hand what these sort of numbers can do, it
was time to look harder for an alternative, an alternative to the
eat starchy foods with every meal advice. An alternative to chasing
highly elevated blood glucose numbers, with ever increasing
medication.
One day when surfing the internet I found a man called Fergus Craig.
That chance meeting changed my life. Fergus is a long term type 1
diabetic who struggled for years to lose weight and get control of
his diabetes. Seven years ago and with the onset of diabetic
complications he decided it was time to improve his health. He
worked hard and researched thoroughly, he realised his diet was the
reason for his diabetic problems. He also realised high carbohydrate
food was slowly killing him. Seven years on his complications have
gone, he holds stable non diabetic blood glucose numbers and runs
marathons.
Following Fergus’ low carb. diet methods and with his help, my blood
glucose level dropped to non diabetic within days. A low
carbohydrate diet has given me many other health benefits. I truly
believe a reduced or low carbohydrate diet will benefit all
diabetics. Try the diet for seven days, watch your blood glucose
levels fall, very often dramatically and you will prove to yourself
diabetes does not have to be progressive. You have nothing to lose
and so very much to gain. The best of luck and health to you and
yours. Please go to
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