Thu, Oct-31-02, 00:02
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Senior Member
Posts: 433
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Plan: Bernstein/Atkins
Stats: 210/180/125
BF:
Progress: 35%
Location: Georgia
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Yeah, the roller coaster ride hypoglycemia gives you would be aggravated by eating a lot of fruit. I'd say most of us who post to this forum probably started out hypoglycemic (I did) before we became diabetic. I'd be *highly* wary of following this plan. You may want to get her to take a glucose tolerance test. If I had known then what I know now, I'd've known when I had my glucose tolerance test about 10 years ago that my pancreas tended to overreact to sweets by flooding way too much insulin into my system--thereby causing hypglycemia, but in time that overreaction can cause the body to become desensitized to the insulin and the pancreas has to create even more to flog the now desensitized insulin receptors to react to the insulin, which creates even more insulin resistance. A very vicious cycle which ultimately results in diabetes if left untreated. Ask any of us here--we know. Go pick up Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution (2002 edition) and read it carefully cover to cover, then come back here to the low-carb forum and ask anything you want. We've all 'been there done that'. If we can save your wife from becoming diabetic then we'll have our reward.
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