Can low carb diet cure diabetes? or get it enough under control to not need insulin.?!


Question: Can low carb diet cure diabetes.? or get it enough under control to not need insulin..?
I have type II diabetes and have been taking oral medication (pills) for it. I admit that I haven't tried too hard to eat right but now I want to get healthier and lose weight and most of all get rid of the diabetes. I am planning to do Atkins, which is low carb diet. Will low carb dieting lower and regulate my blood sugar and get rid of diabetes.? Will it at least control it enough to not need the insulin (in small dose for now) that my doctor wants me to start taking. Please help!Health Question & Answer


Answers:
Probably will work for you . Yes a low glycemic diet is in order. You need a GLYCEMIC INDEX. You will find it easier than Adkins Diet. And works better. Heres the website:http://www.mendosa.com/gilists.htm


The glycemic load (GL) is a relatively new way to assess the impact of carbohydrate consumption that takes the glycemic index into account, but gives a fuller picture than does glycemic index alone. A GI value tells you only how rapidly a particular carbohydrate turns into sugar. It doesn't tell you how much of that carbohydrate is in a serving of a particular food. You need to know both things to understand a food's effect on blood sugar. That is where glycemic load comes in. The carbohydrate in watermelon, for example, has a high GI. But there isn't a lot of it, so watermelon's glycemic load is relatively low. A GL of 20 or more is high, a GL of 11 to 19 inclusive is medium, and a GL of 10 or less is low.


Foods that have a low GL almost always have a low GI. Foods with an intermediate or high GL range from very low to very high GI.


Both GI and GL are listed here. The GI is of foods based on the glucose index

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