Desperately seeking a diet chart for my husband

[madhu65]

Hi friends

Happy Bengali new year to all. My husband 54, a teacher, while going for a routine blood sugar test was scared to find that fasting sugar level was 126 and two hours after meal it was 171. Further investigations revealed that there was fatty infiltration in liver and it was enlarged in size too. The Triglyceride level was 337 and blood uric acid 6.8. His blood pressure was 145/90.

Now the problem is this that the doc has told him to restrict diet, prescribed Metformin 500SR BD, Rosuvastatin and Febustat OD. What should be his diet for proper nutrition as everything is restricted. He is reluctant to take anything too out of sheer apprehension. But if this continues I think, he will become severely weak.

We are from Bengal. Suggest a prolific diet chart that he can take regularly.

 Regards

madhu65

[MikePollard]

Drastically reduce refined carbohydrate, increase natural fats DO NOT FEAR saturated fats or cholesterol.:

dietdoctor.com/diabetes

Watch this video, subscribe to his blog and watch his video series:

youtube.com/watch?v=tIuj-oM...(Not working as expected?)

Info on statins:

spacedoc.com/

[patliputra]

Contradictory advice. Mike says do not fear saturated fat , Pragya says do not fear carb. No one gave you diet chart which you asked for .

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Pataliputhra  please share  the required diet plan to Madhu 65

[patliputra in reply to Hidden]

I do not conform to the idea of high fat. As such there is no diet plan . Each individual must find its own diet plan with certain restrictions. There is no controversy over diet which envisages reduced carbohtdrates and refined flour plenty of vegetables and sprouts. Of course no sugar and its products and its substitute. Non veg may be added as per desire. So let the incumbent devise his own diet plan. If he needs any help and guidance , we are all here to help him out.

[Hidden in reply to patliputra]

  The diet is not universal  to every person     and depending on  gender  body resistance power and age factors  and mainly   coming from   generation of our food.  so even ADA/WHO /FDA  may not  given diabetic  for special diet plan

  there are veg and non veg  varieties of persons so all the person must work out    their diet plan    at least 15 days continuous with glucometer testing  before  breakfast and after breakfast.  If any  of the item  seems to be high blood sugar spikes  skip it or  try with small quantity .

  if followed this for 15 days  You have the idea which food may not increased  blood sugar level or Not?

  this forum    has most of members followed LCHF and LW /LWMDR and ADA/WHO guideline  followed  for their diet.

  So   the members may try theirbest diet plan  but aim is toeep the blood sugar level in the normal way.

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Madhu 65 please search my profile posting as My  fiet plan7-7-2015and alsoShashikanth iyengar posting  which may help and  Pataliputra also given diet  plan    shortly

[madhu65]

Hi agrhar i tried to find out your diet plan of 7.7.15 but in vain. Would you be kind enough to cater it for me once again?

[Hidden in reply to madhu65]

  Madhu 65 the following is the link

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healthunlocked.com/diabetes...

https:/

/healthunlocked.com/diabetesindia/posts/132282336/my-diet-planV

Shashikanthiyengar diet plan

healthunlocked.com/diabetes....

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[simplebhandia]

The following is something I found on Dr.Fungs site, whom I am following and have reduced my BS from FBS 350 and PBBS 450 to today 90 and 110 without medicines and without going to any doctor. As Dr.Fung has said in the video that Mike posted, follow also intermittent fasting and you will not need medicines anymore. Read some of the blogs too.

Foods to Avoid Most of the Time (almost 0% of your daily dietary intake)

1.  Processed, Refined and Genetically Modified Carbohydrates

Products containing wheat or wheat flour, including: bread, bagels, breakfast cereals, pasta, crackers, and beer

Sugar and artificial sweeteners

Sugar or sweetened beverages, including: soda, diet sodas, and fruit juices

White rice 

Corn and soy containing products 

Cheese (processed cheese only)

Lunch meats

Margarine

Processed oils, including: vegetable and corn oils 

Foods to Eat Less Often (<10% of your daily dietary intake)

1.  Root Vegetables

Potatoes 

Yams

Beets

2.  Unprocessed Grains

Quinoa

Barley

Buckwheat

Spelt

Rye

Black rice  

3.  Bananas and Grapes 

Foods to Eat More Of (>90% of your dietary intake)

1.  Vegetables (grown above the ground) – high in fibre!

2.  Legumes and Lentils – high in fibre!

3.  Fruits – high in fibre when eaten with the skin!

Berries 

Cherries

Apples

Pears

Avacados – high in natural fat! 

3.  Nuts, Nut Butters and Seeds – high in natural fat!

Almonds, walnuts, pine nuts, and Brazil nuts are among the healthiest

Peanuts are actually legumes and not nuts, but they are a great source of natural fat and protein

Nut butters should be organic

4.  Meat, poultry and Fish – high in natural fat!

5.  Eggs – high in natural fat!

6.  Butter – high in natural fat!

7.  Unprocessed oils, including: coconut oil, olive oil and avocado oil – high in natural fat!

You can also use ghee for cooking

Fruits actually also to be avoided till BS becomes normal and then only one fruit a day with the fibre - no juices.

[suramo Star in reply to simplebhandia]

simplebhandia ,

I'm really awed by your achievement-- esp. bringing down the fasting blood sugar. Would you please elaborate how you achieved fasting blood sugar control? My fasting blood sugar is 140-195 despite my sincere efforts. Your guidance will help me a lot.

Thanks.

[simplebhandia in reply to suramo]

Hi Suramo,

send me ur email address - r u from India ?

[suramo Star in reply to simplebhandia]

simplebhandia ,

Yes, I'm from india. Ahmedabad. You can send my a private message on HU.

[cure Administrator in reply to simplebhandia]

simplebhandia said :

Foods to Avoid Most of the Time (almost 0% of your daily dietary intake)

1.  Processed, Refined and Genetically Modified Carbohydrates

Products containing wheat or wheat flour, including: bread, bagels, breakfast cereals, pasta, crackers, and beer

Sugar and artificial sweeteners

Sugar or sweetened beverages, including: soda, diet sodas, and fruit juices

White rice

Corn and soy containing products

Cheese (processed cheese only)

Hmm the cheese which we get in India(Amul cheese)....is that processed one???

If so..which cheese is recommended???

[cure Administrator in reply to cure]

 @ simplebhandia

May I  request you to share your experience about how you lowered your FBS..... my FBS is now hovering around  100 to 126

Is it possible to get it below 100??

Currently I am on LCHF+ Long wheat... carbs below 100 as my weight is 95 now.

Whatever carbs I am consuming....mostly are Long wheat.

I am from Pune-India

[simplebhandia in reply to cure]

@ cure

I am not following long wheat diet. But I do know that it takes much longer to reduce fbs than pbbs because of liver dumping sugar. You will have to wait it out till your liver gets empty again and for that the best what I believe is intermittent fasting. I started with 16 hrs fast and then progressed to 24 and then 36 hrs fasts. Then my sugar went below 100 fbs but still it fluctuates sometimes when I'm negligent like on Sunday's 

[cure Administrator in reply to simplebhandia]

Thank you.....Guess dinner before sunset will help....

Let me try it out.

Thank you once again

[amitkul]

dear Madhu,

Please go through my successful experiments on curing diabetes and high cholesterol. don't take statin drugs, they are harmful for heart as well as whole body. use lifestyle changes  as elaborated in my article

ezinearticles.com/?Curing-D...

[jingale in reply to amitkul]

amitkul  

With due respect, I don't see any measures to "cure" diabetes in your write up. Am I missing something?

[amitkul in reply to jingale]

Sorry for replying late dear jingale. the measures are simple. reduce carb, reduce total calories, use good fat such as Omega 3 and MUFA. avoid, trans fats and saturated fat, reduce PUFA. Be physically active to consume as much calories you eat. Do yoga. take lot of vegetables to fill up your stomach. Reduce or avoid grains. Do not depend on packaged processed food. This was all which I followed to reverse diabetes.

[jingale in reply to amitkul]

Dear amitkul

Thanks for responding, and congrats on reversing your diabetes. Cure and reversal mean different things, and one should avoid using them interchangeably.

[dialife]

Like in Jaundice when you give your Liver rest by consuming low fat food, so in Diabetes, you need to heal your Pancreas by eating a diet like Long Wheat Mash Diet Regimen (LWMDR). I reduced my blood sugar this way and so did many others. Just diet won't help. You need to heal the Pancreas too. Please follow healthunlocked.com/user/sho...

who pioneered the LWMDR, an old ayurvedic regimen and you can read my old posts too for more information. 

You can begin here. Read this thoroughly before starting on the LWMDR: bit.ly/1OaKGKi

[cure Administrator in reply to dialife]

For Jaundice ...sugar cane juice is best remedy.....

I don't know if sugar cane juice gives rest to liver...

Further....it is true a jaundice patient is allergic to fats...even with smell of frying makes a jaundice patient nauseating.....

Is there any data available what happens to a diabetic if he suffers with Jaundice??

Do ppl who suffered with Jaundice also attracts diabetes?? or otherwise???

[Hidden in reply to cure]

Both    are     related   to`   liver      and   high   fat  food   is   not    recommended    for   both

[Hidden]

While lots of diet methods are available ensure that you restrict carbohydrates and sugars including 

Lower done carbs like root veg, rice wheat and grains. Stop all sugars and switch to stevia drops Available online 

Avoid all bakery items as they are made of maida, vegetable fats or dalda and sugars 

Prepare your fish in raw mustard oil

Increase intake of good fats like ghee butter, cheese and if possible get virgin coconut oil available online 

I I follow a diet called LCHF and have an HBA1C of 5.2 a month back. Down from 7.2 six months back at diagnosis. 

My lipids are under control and all inflammatory markers below the safe limits 

Buy a glucometer at home and keep testing after meals to see what spikes. 

Safe limits are below 140 post meals. 

As only metformin is taken so no risk of hypoglycemia 

Suggest u get accucheck performa nano availonline from ebay.in

It's cost per test is only 8-9 Rs and meter is around Rs 1200 

Highly accurate. 

Keep posting the progress

All the best. 

[madhu65 in reply to Hidden]

Thanks Shashikantji for your post. I will do accordingly.