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LCHF DIET

What food in LCHF diet is good.please give what food to be in the morning, afternoon and evening and night.give examples. please help to reduce hba1c from ,7.4 to

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Praveen55Moderator

in reply to yvjanard

a year ago

yvjanard

1. LCHF is indeed very good approach to follow for diabetes. As you are aware, there are many members in our group who have benefited from this approach.

2. Nuts are also very healthy choice for LCHF, no doubt about that.

3.Now the last part of your question '' Are vegetables part of lchf food? Is lchf itself not complete food?''

LCHF is a dietary approach which in general calls for low carb, moderate protein and high healthy fat as per individuals requirements. Whether LCHF is complete food or not depends on what one includes in the diet. Our body needs macro-nutrients and micro-nutrients. We must make sure that we get all from our food. No one food may provide all. That is why it is good to include varieties of ingredients in our diet including LCHF.

As an extreme example, let us assume 300 gm almonds( nut) may fulfil the daily energy requirements of a particular person providing:

a. 1728 calories

b. 147 gm fat

c. 63 gm protein

d. 30 gm net carb

Based on macros, the above is an excellent LCHF/KETO diet. However, one has to find out if our body's requirements of essentials vitamins and minerals, essential fatty acids, complete protein etc will be supplied by consuming Almonds alone.

In general, non-starchy vegetables are included in LCHF diets because they are low carb and provide several vitamins and minerals. Based on that, I will say vegetables are part of LCHF in practical terms.

I suggest, you should talk to a dietician or a suitable health professional who will be able to advice you on a complete diet which meets LCHF requirements and also provides essential vitamins and minerals that we need. Sometime, we may have to consider some supplements. That would be a safe approach.

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Cann

in reply to yvjanard

a year ago

This is a difficult one, but for me I use kinesiology or muscle testing taught to me by a kinesiologist when I was seriously ill and given little hope of living very long by the conventional doctors.

I really wanted to live and get well and I sought out people recommended to me by those who had done the same - healed themselves.

Many use dowsing, but that didn't work for me, but it works for many.

I trust my body and muscles to tell me what is right for me. It has been used by thousands for thousands of years and, for me, is much more reliable than the drugs doctors prescribed for me (which actually nearly killed me due to allergies which they had no means or chose not to test before prescribing dangerous drugs to me).

If I were you, I would do the same - seek out knowledgeable people and only go with those you trust, but it is your decision. We are all responsible for our own health in the end.

It is easy to tell when you meet someone if they are right or not, or it is for me. I am very sensitive and I can tell if they are going to help me or not.

If I ate a diet that someone else told me to eat, I would be dead now, that is why the kinesiologist taught me to test myself.

She was testing me for a while, but she said that I needed to test everything I ingested or drank before doing so and she was right.

She could not be with me all the time and the body changes all the time.

I am so much better now, but I still don't eat or drink without testing or else I get a flare of some sort. My immune system was messed up by what happened to me in hospital.

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Concerned

in reply to Cann

a year ago

We are more alike than different. We are all recognisable as homo-sapiens. Our guts aren't as long as a chimpanzee's for example, so we evolved to eat less vegetation. Although the greatest volume of food might come from vegetables, the majority of calories must come from an energy dense source.

The differences you cite are very important, but with that said, anyone who has hyperglycaemia has too much carbohydrate in their bloodstream by definition, and needs to be eating less of it.

There is guidance as to what are the optimal amounts to eat. If we eat too little carbohydrate, the body attempts to make up the deficit from other foods. If we eat too much carbohydrate, the body converts it to triglycerides. This is not always visible as sub-cutaneous fat; it can remain hidden as visceral fat. An average person therefore needs between 120g and 160g low Gi carbohydrate per day (Jaminet and Jaminet, 2012).

The RNI for protein is 56g for an average man, 45g for an average woman.

The remaining nutrient to make up the balance is natural fat, which is relatively inert, and serves as the energy reserve for most activity. Only the energy demands for intense activity, that necessitates anaerobic metabolism, cannot be met by fat.

The ideal fat ratio is that which our body has evolved; 57% monounsaturated, 40% saturated, and 3% EFAs.

We also need to ensure we have sufficient water, fibre, vitamins and minerals.

Not that I'm advising you need to do this, if you couldn't occasionally, relatively easily thrive with only one normal-sized meal for a day, it's an indication that you aren't eating as healthily as you think, despite what you've been told (i.e. notable hunger should not be a companion between meals, day after day. That would mean you were having difficulties tapping into your fat reserves).

The nearer we eat to these ideals, the better our chances of chronic good-health.

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Cann

in reply to Activity2004

a year ago

Doctors had actually given me little hope 18 years ago until I found a kinesiologist who taught me to muscle test myself for what I eat and drink.

I was 5 stone 10 lbs at that time and no-one thought I would survive. This was after surgery and drugs that almost killed me.

Once I started muscle testing myself and eating what rendered my muscles strong instead of weak, I started to get better and put on weight.

It wasn't doctors, though I saw many and even paid privately for help. They could only suggest hospital on a drip.

I felt they could kill me if I went back in after all the damage that had been done to me, already.

It has left me with immune system problems, but as long as I eat what is right for me, I am managing it all.

My doctors know how I eat and they all say stick with it if it works for you. Other than that I have had no help from doctors and I can't take the drugs and the ingredients in them that they have prescribed.

I live this way to survive and enjoy my life.

If I could find a doctor that understands nutrition I might listen to them, but few know that much and there is no point talking to them about it. They only do one session in seven years training on nutrition, my GP once told me and apologised for advising me to eat marmite and stakes when I was seriously ill.

The drugs had caused a serious fungal infection and the marmite aggravated it enormously having yeast in it.

As for the stakes, my digestive system was so impaired by the drugs and surgery that I could not digest a stake - that nearly finished me off at the time.

Hopefully, you will now understand why I don't consult my doctor about what to eat.

Digestion is so complicated - it is not only what one eats, but what one digests or can digest, absorb and assimilate.

Experience is a great teacher and I have certainly experienced a great deal!

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in reply to Cann

a year ago

Yes .one should eat what is suitable to him/her . Meat should not be taken too much . When it is getting digested a chemical known as TMAO is released .If the levels of TMAO go up there is every possibility of getting strokes and heart attacks as per one study done recently . So we should not just go blindly on any recommendation . It s a personal need based choice .Though red meat is said to be the culprit , one does not know what new research would state after six months . TMAO is gut generated chemical Trimethylamine N_Oxide . It is formed by gut bacteria during the process of digestion of red meat . It is said digestion of red meat creates three times more of that when compared to plant proteins . But how and to what extent and whether white meat also equally produces is not yet established .