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1. Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution: The Complete Guide to Achieving Normal Blood Sugars
- Little Brown and Company
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3. Eden Organic Black Soy Beans, No Salt Added, 15-Ounce Cans (Pack of 12)
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5. Derma Sciences 31022 Medihoney Calcium Alginate Dressing, 2" Width x 2" Length (Pack of 10)
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6. Prep Solutions by Progressive Microwavable Four Egg Poacher
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8. O'WELL Diabetes Testing Kit, 100 Count | Easy Touch Meter, 100 Easy Touch Blood Glucose Test Strips, 100 Lancets, Lancing Device, Control Solution, Owner's Manual, Log Book & Carry Case
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The best thing your mom can do is self educate - learn as much about the current information as she can. Knowing how diet can help control T2D is such valuable information.
Here is a really good book, written by a medical doctor who is now in his 80's and has been a diabetic since his teens. https://www.amazon.ca/Dr-Bernsteins-Diabetes-Solution-Achieving/dp/0316182699
I think this is a good place to start. He also has a web site with lots of video lectures on various topics for both T1 & 2D . Also, I have found trying to find ready-made Low Carb/Keto/Diabetic premade food was hard to find and VERY expensive. It is not that hard to make great food at home that is based on whole food and is high in nutritional value. Now that she is a T2D she must change her lifestyle and relationship with food to live a healthy and complications free life.
I have now been on a full keto diet for 4 years and my T2D is totally under control - with NO MEDS. I was taking 3 kinds of meds before changing my diet.
Here is my playlist of Keto foods that have keept my BS in the very healthy normal range. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWxb2cfHHa24T7pXv6ssnDw/playlists
If you want to help your mom, the best thing is to learn with her about T2D and how a very low carb diet can make a huge difference. Supporting her journey will encourage her and the support is so appreciated (I love that my family are 100% helping keep to my keto lifestyle- they see how much it helped me)> Let me just complement you – you are amazing for wanting to do this for your mom. Best of luck to her and may she get her T2d UNDER CONTROLE!
Hope this helps. CHeers
What I've come to believe is that people have two options with treating type-2 diabetes. Basically they can place their trust in (most) doctors/the drug industry and The American Diabetes Association/and the sugar and grain producers trade lobbies and change very little in their lives. Keep literally poisoning themselves with the foods and destructive habits that are killing them, begin a program of treatment of extremely expensive medical intervention to supposedly counter all this, and then start the downward spiral of progressive disease that "experts" flatly say is inevitable. Or alternately, many of us believe that you can instead take charge of your own treatment, make some simple and cheap lifestyle changes that will almost certainly reverse your disease (if too much damage hasn't already been done to your body, which with most people at diagnosis it likely hasn't), and then go on to lead a healthy, happy and long normal life. But while the second option sounds like the obvious choice - or perhaps instead just a scam and a lie - the problem here is that it requires the intelligence to take charge of your own treatment. And the self discipline to make some lifestyle changes that, while easy to describe on paper, are anything but easy to accomplish in real life. Anyway...
If you want to go the second route, start learning. Alan has already linked to his site, and I'm particularly fond of this video as a quick and easy to watch intro. For a first book, I'd suggest "Blood Sugar 101" by Jenny Ruhl. Although there is much more you should read beyond this - authors like doctors Berstein, Fung, etc.. But in any case, good luck with whatever course you choose.
Reversing Type 2 diabetes starts with ignoring the guidelines
Just a fyi, they sell these at my local supermarket and at walmart near me and is a good substitute to black beans and taste great imo.
https://www.amazon.com/Eden-Organic-Black-Beans-15-Ounce/dp/B000GZS9Q6
I came across this biochemist's blog after Amazon recommended one of his books, The World Turned Upside Down. I hadn't seen him mentioned here before, and I enjoyed this blog post about sparring with "medical" bureaucracies that don't want the word about low carb diets getting out. So I figured I would share.
I would reccomend two things:
ONE: (A) If she is not checking blood glucose several times a day she should start doing this. You can buy meters and strips on Amazon, at your drugstore or have your Endocrinologist order it.
(B) get her on a low carb diet, like keto or similar.
TWO: consider trying medihoney alginate dressing - made from Manuka honey. It was the thing that turned the corner for me with similar wounds
It's easy to quickly do four eggs in this microwave egg "poacher", no peeling needed:
Once out of the microwave, I sometimes save to eat as a cold "hard boiled" egg later, or chop up for egg salad or chicken salad. The only issue I have with this process is that the eggs are not in the right shape to do deviled eggs. :(
Intermittent fasting (IF) is a common tactic recommended by a number of doctors recently for controlling insulin resistance, including Dr. Felice Gersh (gynecologist) from the book PCOS SOS and Dr. Jason Fung (nephrologist) who wrote the book The Obesity Code.
A lot of people report intermittent fasting working well for them. The scientific evidence (to me) seems a bit understudied. I have not personally tried it because I work a very mental job and the brain dullness while fasting doesn't work for me. I do practice IF overnight and try not to eat between dinner (6pm) and breakfast (10am).
I would personally not choose to stop metformin while fasting. Metformin is not the kind of medicine that will give you lows, so fasting shouldn't harm you while on it. If you go off you may experience more of the gastrointestinal symptoms when you start up. Also, metformin requires constant levels to work well. That being said, Dr. Fung says that his patients do often hold off on metformin while fasting due to gastrointestinal distress from taking the meds without food.
Welcome to the club! Though not really, since being diabetic sucks. But here's some advice:
When I was first diagnosed, I sat down with a nutritionist for an hour. She helped me learn the difference in carbs, how they affect me, and how to portion them. She gave me easy charts to follow and advice on meal plans. It was nice because she wasn't judgey and didn't make me feel stupid for not really knowing what Carbohydrates on labels meant. Maybe you should seek out an appointment with one?
Get a blood glucose meter. It will tell you what your blood sugar is at. They're pretty cheap and available on Amazon or Walmart. You can measure it when you first wake up to see what your body naturally sits at without any food in it. Then measure it 2 hours after a meal and see how your body processed what you just consumed.
Also, you're AIC is not crazy high. With good diet and a little movement, you can get it back into the 5's or even 4's. Normal A1C range is under a 5.7. If you can lower your numbers, they'll take you off medication. But if you ignore the results and keep letting your A1C rise, you'll be put on higher dosages and more pills and then insulin. I know it's hard scary depressing news, but it's life saying "hey, it's time for a change."
You can do this.
I understand.
Where we differ is in the belief that it is about calories in, calories out.
Read some of Taubes writing. Begin here, or watch this: Big Fat Lies
Note, I am not a fan of Mercola but I agree with Taubes after reading Good Calories, Bad Calories.
Excess of any macronutrient is unwise but my version of moderation for fats and protein is significantly different from the advice I had from dieticians.