Diabetes and Parkinson's, post by Simon

[parkie13]

scienceofparkinsons.com/201...

[Astra7]

Very interesting. Thanks

[alexask]

Interesting. My son is a type 1 diabetic and he has a continuous glucose monitor (freestyle libre). I used one of his patches for a couple of weeks and was surprised to find that I did not respond well to sugar with my levels spiking to 13 mmol/L after eating sweet stuff and also when doing vigorous exercise. I then eliminated alcohol (of which I drank too much perhaps 2 glasses of wine a night on average with more on social occasions) , ate low carb, healthy meals, (a lot of cauliflower cheese). After 5 days of this my insulin response went back down to normal - I could eat cake and biscuits with no spikes.

Most here probably know this, but you need to get your energy from somewhere, and that can either be from carbs or fats. Fats are not inherently bad for you, with the exception of trans fats ( found in biscuits, potato chips, sub-standard chocolate). I still find it shocking that the government advice on healthy eating still involves eating a lot of carbs and that "low fat" is still seen as a good thing. But then there are a lot of corn producers and cereal manufacturers with product they need to sell.

[park_bear in reply to alexask]

sciencedirect.com/science/a...

" Higher carbohydrate intake was associated with an increased risk of total mortality (highest [quintile 5] vs lowest quintile [quintile 1] category, HR 1·28 [95% CI 1·12–1·46], ptrend=0·0001) but not with the risk of cardiovascular disease or cardiovascular disease mortality. Intake of total fat and each type of fat was associated with lower risk of total mortality (quintile 5 vs quintile 1, total fat: HR 0·77 [95% CI 0·67–0·87], ptrend<0·0001; saturated fat, HR 0·86 [0·76–0·99], ptrend=0·0088; monounsaturated fat: HR 0·81 [0·71–0·92], ptrend<0·0001; and polyunsaturated fat: HR 0·80 [0·71–0·89], ptrend<0·0001). Higher saturated fat intake was associated with lower risk of stroke (quintile 5 vs quintile 1, HR 0·79 [95% CI 0·64–0·98], ptrend=0·0498). Total fat and saturated and unsaturated fats were not significantly associated with risk of myocardial infarction or cardiovascular disease mortality."

[parkie13 in reply to park_bear]

Long Live butter