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Randerolf · 07-18-2003, 09:21 PM

i eat sugar like a madman. I love it. I''ve been on a gummi bear kick since I rediscoverd them.

I'm thin and in good shape (I guess). I park on top of parkign garages and at the back of parking lots to get steady "exercise" and am a waiter so I am carrying things all the time and running around a lot, keeping my heart rate up.

My granmother had diabetes.

How can I prevent it? Tell me about it.

HarmlessRabbit · 07-18-2003, 10:30 PM

I'm an atkins diet fan, and he talks a lot about how a low-carb diet can prevent or reverse diabetes. I personally know a couple people with diabetes that have been able to go insulin free by eating low carb.

Here's one article from the site:

http://atkins.com/Archive/2001/11/28-316866.html

But, in any event, other (non-atkins) studies have also shown that excess sugar intake and obesity are factors in adult onset diabetes. You don't have to swallow the whole atkins rhetoric, you can just cut back on the sugar and the simple carbs (white bread, rice, etc).

the human body didn't evolve to process the amount of sugar a typical american throws at it, and i think diabetes is a response to that. Up until a few hundred years ago, humans didn't get anywhere near the amount of sugar in their diet that we get today.

07-18-2003, 09:21 PM	#1 (permalink)
Randerolf Fireball Location: ~	Diabetes i eat sugar like a madman. I love it. I''ve been on a gummi bear kick since I rediscoverd them. I'm thin and in good shape (I guess). I park on top of parkign garages and at the back of parking lots to get steady "exercise" and am a waiter so I am carrying things all the time and running around a lot, keeping my heart rate up. My granmother had diabetes. How can I prevent it? Tell me about it.

07-18-2003, 10:30 PM	#2 (permalink)
HarmlessRabbit Junkie Location: San Jose, CA	I'm an atkins diet fan, and he talks a lot about how a low-carb diet can prevent or reverse diabetes. I personally know a couple people with diabetes that have been able to go insulin free by eating low carb. Here's one article from the site: http://atkins.com/Archive/2001/11/28-316866.html But, in any event, other (non-atkins) studies have also shown that excess sugar intake and obesity are factors in adult onset diabetes. You don't have to swallow the whole atkins rhetoric, you can just cut back on the sugar and the simple carbs (white bread, rice, etc). the human body didn't evolve to process the amount of sugar a typical american throws at it, and i think diabetes is a response to that. Up until a few hundred years ago, humans didn't get anywhere near the amount of sugar in their diet that we get today.