Sun, Oct-05-03, 14:47
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Senior Member
Posts: 2,816
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Plan: Atkins/Protein Power
Stats: 256/179/160
BF:38.9/27.2/24.3
Progress: 80%
Location: Triangle NC
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Ketosis in diabetics has always been an indicator of uncontrolled blood sugar. Now they go more by direct blood sugar measurements, but for many years diabeticcs were told to test their urine for ketones. This may be where your friend got this idea.....of it could be the hundreds of articles out there that say fat is bad, protein is bad, ketosis indicates muscle breakdown (it doesn't, it's the fat breaking down that causes ketones), protein causes kidney damage (it doesn't, it will likely make it worse if present, but doesn't cause it!), etc etc.
There's a lot of disinformation out there! Just ignore the nay-sayers....most have no idea what they're talking about, they're just parroting what they've heard!
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