1. Where the heck did you get your information. Pre- insulin diabetics led horrific lives and looked nearly starved. Also, they used to go to slaughter housed and buy the pancreases from slaughtered animals, grind up and consume. Not effective. I've been living with diabetes since I was six. That was forty three years ago

Posted at 11:53PM on Aug 23rd 2007 by Laura Deed

2. Hi Allie Beatty & Laura Deed,

"Prior to the advent of insulin, in the 1920's, diabetes was treated with a low-carbohydrate diet". [Please note the abovementioned 'sub15% carbohydrate' reference (2005) is supported by Eric C Westman's more recent reference (2007)]...
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/reprint/86/2/276

Prior to the advent of epilepsy drugs, in the 1920's, epilepsy was treated with a low-carbohydrate diet. [Please note Alessandra Freitas' (2007) 'sub15% carbohydrate' reference]...
http://www.scielo.br/pdf/anp/v65n2b/03.pdf

The CAUSE of epilepsy & diabetes mellitus [type 1a, 1b, 1.5, 2 & 2.5] are the same ... "relative HYPOglycaemia" eg Sean W Limesand's (2003) ref...
http://jp.physoc.org/cgi/reprint/547/1/95

Since agreement was reached that the Earth is 'more round than flat' ... Very little research appears to have been going on in respect of reaching global agreement as to the CAUSE of diabetes mellitus & epilepsy. Very few blogs or comments at www.TheDiabetesBlog.com address the CAUSE of diabetes mellitus. By eliminating the CAUSE the CURE usually becomes more assessable.

Why is there so little focus [generally or by You specifically] upon the CAUSE of diabetes mellitus & epilepsy?

In a 1997 film, "First Do No Harm", Meryl Streep highlighted the extraordinary ability of a 'sub15% carbohydrate' diet, evolved in the 1920's, to CURE epilepsy.

Since 1977 [approximately 30 years ago] "Dr Jan Kwasniewski" has been highlighting the extraordinary ability of a 'sub15% carbohydrate' diet, evolved in the 1920's, to CURE diabetes [type 1 & type 2].

The Hippocratic Oath states: "To please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug nor give advice which may cause his death." It is the responsibility of every MD who has taken the Hippocratic Oath to ensure that ANYdrugTREATED 'diabetes mellitus / HYPERglycaemic Patient' is free from treatments which forseeably CAUSE diabetes mellitus / HYPERglycaemia. Since diabetes mellitus was discovered in approximately 1552 BC [approx 3,559 years ago ... presumably your MD has an opinion as to the CAUSE of diabetes mellitus and is happy to discuss Dr Kwasniewski's 'sub15% carbohydrate' diet CURE for type 1 diabetes?

(a) What steps has your MD taken to offer You the choice of a 'sub15% carbohydrate' diet?; and

(b) How often per year does your MD organise a C-peptide test to evaluate changes and/or monitor improvements in your own pancreas' insulin production?; and

(c) When, each day, is your highest threshold for urinating glucose? [the average threshold is 160mg to 200mg ... eg is your threshold higher before or after exercise/sleeping/eating and what explanation has your MD provided, to You, to explain why apparent 'excess blood glucose' is apparently 'defined', by your kidneys, as a level of over approximately 150mg]?

WHAT PREVENTS HYPERglycaemia...

Eat Less Often ... specifically ... Eat JUST clean water [zero % carbohydrate] between meals & eat ONLY when your blood glucose level, following your previous eat, has NATURALLY reduced to your chosen baseline blood glucose level [eg as related to the relative fuel demands of your particular activity level] and maintaining this habit, of 'supply & demand' glucose control, makes your prevention, of diabetes mellitus, sustainable.

...Warm thanks; Nick Dynes Gracey, BSc(Hons) Medical Biochemistry, Birmingham University, UK, WATerian c/o www.TheDiabetesBlog.com @ 10:50hrs FRI.24.AUG.2007.

ps... Diabetes Is Caused By Food And Or Drug Administration Too Much And Or Too Often.

www.thediabetesblog.com/2007/04/19/no-food-no-problem

pps... FOR MORE related info please follow the links via...

www.thediabetesblog.com/2007/08/19/type-1-type-2-name-confusion-is-a-problem/1#c6815015

www.diabetesmine.com/2007/08/looking-past-bl.html#comment-80364609

www.thediabetesblog.com/2007/08/22/controlling-type-2-beyond-blood-sugar/1#c6889380

ppps... Diabetes is NOT a disease ... diabetes is the CURE [for relative HYPOglycaemia]...

Harry M Salzer @ January 1966 @ Vol 58 @ Number 1 @ Journal Of The National Medical Association @ "Relative Hypoglycemia As A Cause Of Neuropsychiatric Illness".

Posted at 7:01AM on Aug 24th 2007 by Nicholas Dynes Gracey

3. What caused doctors to forget what they once knew was that studies in the 1950s connected "high fat" diets with heart disease.

Unfortunately, these were high fat diets ALSO HIGH IN CARBS. It turns out it probably was the CARBS in these "high fat" diets causing the high cholesterol and high blood pressure. Eating a low carb diet lowers lipids and BP.

In the 1970s "low carb" was studied again, but the "low carb" diet were ones where people were eating over 150 grams of carb a day! That's not low carb for a person with diabetes. 50 grams of carb is a lot and will raise most Type 2s blood sugar to dangerous levels.

There is also a simplicity to "eating fat causes fat" which captured the imagination of a public which is very poorly educated about science, which has made the issue emotional.

After decades of failing at low fat diets that made them fatter, people still can't accept that "fat is bad for you" is a lie and that "carbs kill" is the truth.

Posted at 8:41AM on Aug 24th 2007 by lottadata

4. Wow, lottadata, well summarized; and all true. It is so important to remember in this context that it is large amounts of insulin that cause fats in the blood to precipitate and adhere to artery walls. Worried about arterial sclerosis? Reduce your need for insulin, i.e., eat less carbs. So simple and proven a scientific fact, but so counterintuitive to a poor brainwashed public.

Posted at 9:06PM on Aug 25th 2007 by TechRightGuy