One more plus of a diet of Atkins

Excessive weight, most often, accompanies such disease as diabetes 2 types. Those who are familiar with diabetes, who has diabetics in family or among acquaintances, know, this illness is how dangerous. If not to treat him, and to neglect everything, then consequences can be the most sad: from injury of a nerve, loss of sight till a lethal outcome. And it is impossible to underestimate danger of diabetes. Though we want to frighten nobody too.

There is also good news – observing a certain diet and physical activity, it is possible to keep quality of life and to differ in nothing from those who have no diabetes. Therefore the main thing for diabetics is, of course, food.

When made to my mother this diagnosis then warned that it is necessary to change a diet urgently. The benefit, a state her was not started, the disease only began. Offered it a low-carbohydrate diet. We, of course, did not believe that only one food it is possible to solve a problem. But what our surprise when in 2 months of such food mother not only lost several extra kilos was, but also sugar level in blood at her became normal.

Surprisingly in this case the fact that advised mother a diet opposite to the fact that usually advise diabetics – most often sick diabetes advise a diet with the high content of carbohydrates and low content of fat. To be fair It is necessary to tell that recently approach to it after all changes. But so far very few people know that low-carbohydrate food – the best for diabetics.

Diabetes arises when the organism ceases to produce hormone insulin, or incorrectly uses it. Insulin in turn helps to process sugar from food and will transform it to energy. At diabetics insulin does not perform the work properly, and sugar level in blood can become dangerously high.

Since 70th years of last century recommended to diabetics food with the low content of fat, because of heart troubles to which diabetics are more inclined. And insulin was controlled insulin injections. Thus, the main requirement to food was – the low content of fat. Calories which earlier the patient received from fat were replaced with calories from carbohydrates. Ideally, if it would be wholegrain products, vegetables, fruit and nuts. But often calories undertake also from white loaf and pasta.

New approach at doctors who treat diabetes, following: such diet (with the high content of carbohydrates and low content of fat) can do much harm on the contrary sick diabetes. Instead more and more experts advise to pass to a low-carbohydrate diet. Such to which my mother and which really helped her adhered.

And now we will pass to Atkins's diet. At this style of food there are a lot of followers. But now them can become even more. Because food according to Atkins is no other than a low-carbohydrate diet which so well helps diabetics and also is quite good prevention of diabetes.

Of course, we know that carbohydrates – excellent fuel for our organism, is a good power source because they easily turn into glucose. However, when we consume too many carbohydrates, insulin is necessary for its processing more. But when it is not enough, sugar just cannot be processed more, it gets into all organism, so and into blood. Excess sugar to be stored in a type of fat that leads to increase in weight and if here to add the increased sugar level in blood, then we have the developing diabetes 2 types.

Science – for!
Of course, you should not trust too special cases, one of which (history of my mother) I described. It is necessary to weigh everything pros and cons. Let's weigh.

Tony Leeds, specialist in obesity of hospital Whittington, London:
Old opinion that diets with the high content of carbohydrates suit people with diabetes are not absolutely true. Often they lead even to deterioration in symptoms of a disease. New researches show that the diet where the amount of carbohydrates decreases proved to be better, and the amount of proteins increases a little. And it is better to adopt this rule of food not only sick diabetes, but also to all people as it guarantees decrease in glucose in blood and, therefore, the need for insulin.

In 2004 the Diabetes edition conducted a research which also showed that the low-carbohydrate diet is good for patients with type 2 diabetes. By results of a research, patients reduced sugar level in blood after 5 weeks of a low-carbohydrate diet. If to consume a day less than 30 grams of carbohydrates within a year, then it leads to decrease not only sugar in blood, but also fats (triglycerides) and also good cholesterol grows.

The American Diabetic Association in 2008 changed the recommendations for patients and now considers a low-carbohydrate diet – an effective remedy of treatment of diabetes 2 types, especially at corpulent people.

Tom Sanders, professor in Royal college of London:
For patients with diabetes normal weight is crucial. Therefore it is worth watching food and physical activities regularly. As for low-carbohydrate diets – that I cannot advise it for all. But such food can bring benefit to those who want to keep weight under control. For diabetics of 1 type low-carbohydrate food is not shown at all.

Deepa Harthi, clinical consultant:
Carbohydrates are the major fuel, especially for a brain, and they also contain fiber which is important for healthy intestines. If decided to try a low-carbohydrate diet, consult at first with the nutritionist. One of side effects from a low-carbohydrate diet – a hypoglycemia when sugar level in blood falls too low that leads to a headache, lack of concentration and locks.

How many to hang up in grams
So, it is clear that you should not rush thoughtlessly in food according to Atkins. It, in principle, for any diet it is not useful. But there are also many confirmations to the fact that low-carbohydrate food has good effect for diabetics 2 types. For example, Tony Leeds (which words we already cited) considers at all that in about 5 years Atkins's diet will be an official diet for diabetics 2 types.

It is necessary to find out, few carbohydrates are how many? It was not succeeded to find any recommendations in grams almost. Because some physicians advise only 30 grams a day, and others – 300. But most of all the following compounding meets: 120 grams a day, it include black bread, green vegetables, bean.

Most likely, everything is very individual, and you should not consider carbohydrates grams, it is necessary to follow the following simple advice only:

- Diabetics need to control the level of carbohydrates, but it is not excessive. Completely it is impossible to lose carbohydrates.
- Eat carbohydrates in the smaller portions, limit consumption of sweet drinks, including fruit juice (it is possible only 1 glass a day).
- If meat – that low-fat, butter we exclude. Fish is resolved.
- Think not of amount of carbohydrates and fats, and of that food was healthy: raw products, organic vegetables and fruit, any semi-finished products.

And in conclusion all would like to wish good health and joy. And my mother after all insistently advises to follow her example. She says that low-carbohydrate food helped it to stop development of diabetes without side effects. "If I began to follow an obeszhirenny diet, I am for some reason sure that in blood now I all the same would have a high sugar level. Therefore I can recommend only a low-carbohydrate diet" are the words of my mother.