Thu, Dec-18-03, 04:54
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Ex-Patriot
Posts: 3,364
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Plan: CAD-ish
Stats: 232.5/199/168
BF:no/earthly/clue
Progress: 52%
Location: London, UK
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drinking moderately, which is defined as one drink per day for women and two drinks for men.
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Most of Europe would get a diagnosis as "immoderate" if this guideline were in any way realistic.
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Originally Posted by alaskaman
there was an article about a local counselor who is having success by putting alcoholics on a lowcarb diet. Her reasoning is that alcohol cravings are like sugar cravings, and that hard drinkers are also frequently hypoglycemic. She admits she has no studies to back this up, only empirical success stories. But she points to Atkins, says he got no respect either at first. It kind of makes sense to me, lots of us find that alcohol sabotages our lowcarb efforts, so why wouldn't high carbs sabotage efforts to curb drinking? She thinks the two are diff sides of the same card, she may be right.
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I've been working with a national alcohol-control organization for 5 years, and this is one correlation which comes up time and time again. There is even an unofficial term, "alcoholic hypoglycemia," which gets thrown around to describe the phenomenon. People in our program frequently talk about the "witching hour" around 5 PM, when blood sugar goes through the floor and the desire to drink is most insistent. A lot of people find that controlling their blood sugar is the key to a successful moderation program, and until their blood sugar is under control--through diet, exercise or whatever--their good intentions will be frustrated.
Emily
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