Follow Up to Diabetes discussion.

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In a message dated 8/24/03 7:01:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

alonmarcus writes:

A diet such as Atkins has controlled every patient that I have put on it and

followed it. I have quite a few that were able to stop insulin

Alon

Hi,

 

Could you elaborate? How long were they on the diet and do they have to

continue? How long were they on insulin previously? How was the Atkins diet

applied? Was it the basic beginning diet or modified? Have they managed to stay

off

insulin?

 

Thanks,

 

Bobbi

 

 

 

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Could you elaborate? How long were they on the diet and do they have to

continue? How long were they on insulin previously? How was the Atkins diet

applied? Was it the basic beginning diet or modified? Have they managed to stay

off

insulin?

>>>>>I find that control is usually quite quick. Within 2 weeks most have their

readings go way down. The two patients that were on insulin have been using it

for over 10 years, both are adult onset and are in their late 60s. They both

lost a lot of weight before they could discontinue. They both had a hard time

controlling their sugars even with long and short Actinex insulins.

Now they both can do more of a Zone diet, ie carbs at higher levels. Others i

have treated got off oral diabetic meds quite quickly. I do use both the diet

and CM and nutritional (and modern western herbals) with them however. Before

the switch to a low carb diet however the effects where very small. Now i see

normal HbA1 routinely.

Alon