Comments on: Jet Lag, Sunshine, and the Death of the Atkins Fad http://www.diabetesmine.com/2005/08/jet_lag_sunshin.html A gold mine of straight talk and encouragement for people living with diabetes Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:09:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Alexis http://www.diabetesmine.com/2005/08/jet_lag_sunshin.html/comment-page-1#comment-34416 Alexis Mon, 08 Aug 2005 13:47:04 +0000 http://diabetesmine.dreamhosters.com/2005/08/03/jet-lag-sunshine-and-the-death-of-the-atkins-fad/#comment-34416 I think I still owe a small debt of gratitude to the Atkins Diet for shedding more light on the relationship between carbohydrates and blood sugars. It seems like carbohydrates vs. blood sugars were rarely discussed with Doctors, Diabetes publications, and Diabetes forums before the South Beach and Atkins Diets came out. I agree that a healthy balanced diet is certainly the way to go, but knowing now that carbohydrates are the main cause of making your blood sugar rise, it makes it much easier to determine how much insulin to take for each meal. When I was first diagnosed, I was given the standard meal exchange plan, and there was a long process of figuring out how much insulin to give. Changing my diet, meant simply guessing how much insulin to use and relying on glucose to keep me out of trouble. Seeing that you were diagnosed 2 years ago, I wonder how different the information you were given by your doctors was compared to someone like me who was diagnosed about 15 years ago. I think I still owe a small debt of gratitude to the Atkins Diet for shedding more light on the relationship between carbohydrates and blood sugars. It seems like carbohydrates vs. blood sugars were rarely discussed with Doctors, Diabetes publications, and Diabetes forums before the South Beach and Atkins Diets came out. I agree that a healthy balanced diet is certainly the way to go, but knowing now that carbohydrates are the main cause of making your blood sugar rise, it makes it much easier to determine how much insulin to take for each meal.

When I was first diagnosed, I was given the standard meal exchange plan, and there was a long process of figuring out how much insulin to give. Changing my diet, meant simply guessing how much insulin to use and relying on glucose to keep me out of trouble. Seeing that you were diagnosed 2 years ago, I wonder how different the information you were given by your doctors was compared to someone like me who was diagnosed about 15 years ago.

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