As part of the update I wanted to let you know, I have three very important dates in my ‘primal life‘. 2/15/2009 – Diabetes Diagnosis, in the hospital after an ambulance ride 2/18/2009 – Day of Hospital Discharge 8/1/2009 – The day I went ‘fully primal’ after reading Mark Sisson’s website MarksDailyApple.com, specifically this post, “Definitive …
The key to living a long and fruitful life, diabetes complication free, is learning to manage diabetes properly. You properly manage diabetes by obtaining and maintaining truly normal blood sugars.
I knew it was coming; I gritted my teeth for as long as I could… Paula Deen is a diabetic … shocker! She’s just like I was… an obese, carb eating machine. The surprise is that it took this long for her to be diagnosed. Who knows, she may have actually been diabetic years ago… …
First let’s look at a few facts. 1) 90% of diabetics fail at maintaining normal blood sugar, if you doubt that… read this post. “90% Fail“. I truly think the number is much higher than that…. but this is the medical industry’s numbers. Using conservative and ‘rough’ estimates… there are approximately 30 million diabetics in the …
Did you read the latest headlines Yesterday? According to this article, “The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) is streamlining litigation for all federal cases alleging injury caused by the diabetes drug ACTOS®.” and… “Plaintiffs allege that individuals who use Actos face an increased risk of developing bladder cancer. Plaintiffs further allege that the defendants …
November was a month of ‘bashing’ the American Diabetes Association…and a month of thanks too of course. December was a month of experiments. The popularity of my humble attempt at educating, motivating and entertaining people (the blog) … has exceeded my expectations. Every month saw increases in readership… including November and December when people have many other …
If you are NOT yet ‘low carb paleo’ … please, I urge you to give it a try. Step outside your comfort zone… like I am going to do. ;)
I am experimenting again … eating only butter, cream and coconut oil. Here is the introduction and Day 1 post, “Fat Fast Day 1.” In yesterday’s post, “Day 2” … I ranted against the ADA and their ridiculous anti-saturated fat stance in addition to providing details on my fat fast. In this post I will talk briefly …
I will go into the details of Day 2 … but first a Public Service Announcement (PSA). Do you know what Diabetes is? It is hyperglycemia, which means… high blood sugar. check it out, “click here“. Do you want to stop all of YOUR diabetes symptoms from worsening? … if so then normalize blood sugars. Normalizing …
I recently completed a 24 hour high carb experiment. I proved that I was still a diabetic among other things, if you missed the post here’s a link, “Date with the Devil – Follow Up“. This post is regarding a new experiment… in a totally different direction, this will be an almost 100% fat test. …
If you are not familiar with my ‘Date with the Devil’ posts, you should read Day 1 and Day 2 before proceeding. In brief, I went very high carb for 24 hours, ‘the devil’ was high carbohydrates. I received quite a few comments and questions regarding my experiment … which told me I needed to …
I had a … date with the devil??? YES!!! … and by devil I mean… Carbohydrates!!! Now…I”m not talking about eating an orange wedge… or even a baked potato! We are talking full BORE high carb eating!!! ………… however I remained GLUTEN FREE! :) Note: If you are not drug / insulin free and if …
Why a new experiment? To gain knowledge of course! My high carb experiment was only 24 hours, from Noon to noon, 12/5 and 12/6/2011 but that was long enough. The devil being … carbohydrates. :) Notes 1) I am a Type 2 Diabetic who successfully self treats my disease with diet and exercise. I maintain …
Do you have a child that has diabetes symptoms? Have they had high blood sugars (hyperglycemia)? … but were tested for diabetes using an Hemoglobin A1c test? If so, I would urge you to read this post and consider other options, an article below states the tests are inaccurate for children. I’ll also discuss an …
The topic of today’s post is an important one … especially for those seeking a deeper understanding of why “low carb paleo” works. Bear with me, as the post progresses, there will be studies and more links to help explain things. The cover of Time magazine has it right … YOUR DNA is NOT …
Please bear with me during the first part of this post… please? … I am in an ill mood! “Why?”, you ask. November is ‘diabetes awareness month’. Seemingly every literate person on the planet is ‘aware’ of diabetes. It’s in the news, it’s on commercials… how can anyone NOT be aware of diabetes??? This is …
This post originated from an online discussion I engaged in recently, I urge YOU to read this and think about ‘who’s side are you on?” My only reason for participating in nutritional debates or ‘online discussions’? I’m hoping a few lurkers may be persuaded to at least check out a ‘low carb primal’ lifestyle. …
Serving size matters … that is. The American Diabetes Association or as I like to refer to them… American Diabetes Ass., likes to tell everyone that they do not promote a high carb meal plan. Sadly, many diabetics believe them. To some degree the ADA is able to ‘get away with this’ thanks to TINY serving …
I’ve been up to quite a bit of “primal fun” over the last couple of weeks … and I wanted to share it with you. I do some pretty crazy stuff at times… Why do I do it? 1) To test conventional wisdom. So much that we have been taught is wrong. Sadly these errors …
This post is going to be highlighting a major contributor to ‘who I am’. Her online name is, “Dr. BG”. She authors a very informative blog, “Animal Pharm“. I originally found her through Mark’s Sisson’s blog roll… a huge debt I owe Mark in and of itself. IF YOU have benefited from my diabetes …