Interesting article focused rather for type 2 but does not come badly to improve values we type 1 although following the indications of our doctor and modifying our dose of insulin.
The most successful author of diets explains how to overcome diabetes and lose weight
Michael Mosley, the BBC doctor and journalist who announced the 5: 2 diet, now returns with the 'Blood Sugar Diet', which is already the most popular regime in the United Kingdom
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“I have designed a diet plan and a program of vital habits that not only reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes, it can also reverse the disease in those who suffer.And in just eight weeks. ”
This is the adventurous claim of the new book by Michael Mosley, the doctor and journalist of the BBC that announced the diet 5: 2 with the Super Sale 'The Fastdiet Diet' (Atria Books), and who has beat all the records againIn the United Kingdom with his new text, 'The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet' (Short Books).
First, the new regime proposed by Mosley may seem another miracle diet, but the truth is that it has a greater scientific base than the vast majority of the food plans that are published.The journalist has based his proposal on the investigations carried out by Roy Taylor, a professor of medicine and metabolism at the University of Newcastle, who achieved that a group of eleven obese volunteers, nine men and two women, would get rid of diabetes forever, thanks to a diet of only 600 calories a day.
Mosley narrates in his book (whose content has been advanced in several deliveries in 'The Daily Mail') The story of Alan Tutty, who was one of the lucky participants in the study carried out by Dr. Taylor.In just eight weeks he managed to lose 12 kilos of weight and, more importantly, escape from diabetes that had diagnosed him before enlisting the experiment.Their sugar levels have been stable since then.
Tutty's case is not isolated.The volunteers lost 15 kilos and all managed to control their blood sugar levels.Since the study was made public, and the British media realized it, the testimonies that ensure the benefits of the plan have multiplied.Now Mosley goes a step further, and has designed a diet that, he says, not only convenient diabetic or prediabetic people, but also "anyone who wants to lose weight quickly and recover control of their health."
No more carbohydrates
Actually, the diet 'Blood Sugar' is nothing more than an adaptation of the Mediterranean diet, in line with the new nutritional paradigm that has been proposing scientists such as ASEEM Malhotra, one of the most prestigious cardiologists in the United Kingdom, or the scientific disseminator, or the scientific disseminator, or the scientific disseminatorGary Taubes, author of 'How we gain weight and what to do about it' (RBA books).
According to these, the increase in refined carbohydrate consumption is the main responsible for the obesity and diabetes epidemic that the health authorities are not managing to stop.Among other things because they are not giving the appropriate recommendations.
Not even diabetic people are receiving adequate recommendations and continue to eat carbohydrates such as bread, pasta or rice
The intake of this type of carbohydrates causes an increase in insulin.This hormone transforms this nutrient into energy, in the form of sugar, but, in turn, stores what is left over in the form of fat, mainly around the abdomen.And, taking into account how little we move, it is very easy to.In this process there is also an added problem.When insulin levels are raised, sugar down, somethingthat stimulates hunger, and pushes us to want more and more carbohydrates.A vicious circle that, if not cut, leads us direct to suffer obesity and diabetes.
In Mosley's opinion, not even diabetic people are receiving the appropriate recommendations and continue to eat carbohydrates such as bread, pasta or rice - which are part of the standard low fat diet that doctors recommend - although at the metabolic levelThey act similar to sugar.
"I was recently in a London hospital chatting with a 55 -year -old man who was about to amputate his foot due to his type 2 diabetes," Mosley says in the book.“When I asked him what had given him breakfast that morning he told me that he could choose between white bread or corn flakes.Twenty years ago, they could forgive you for giving the diabetics this type of food, but since then there have been dozens of studies that suggest that this is not what we should do. ”
A 'hardcore' review of the Mediterranean diet
In Mosley's opinion, the Mediterranean diet is the best option to lose weight and keep the blood sugar levels at bay, something that proved a recent review of 20 trials, in which more than 3,000 people with type 2 diabetes participated.
The Mediterranean diet is the traditional diet that has greater scientific support.The predimed study - the major research that has been carried out on nutrition and health worldwide - has scientifically demonstrated that the Mediterranean diet enriched with nuts and extra virgin olive oil reduces by 30% the risk of myocardial infarction, myocardium infarction,of stroke or death vascular accident due to cardiovascular cause.
The diet does not completely eliminate any nutrient group.Carbohydrates are present, but in their healthiest forms
The regime proposed by Mosley is nothing more than a shock version of the Mediterrene Diet, in which refined carbohydrates are completely eliminated (which are present in this in the form of bread or pasta).For the rest it is very similar: it is a diet rich in fruits, legumes, vegetables, fatty fish, nuts and olive oil.
The diet does not completely eliminate any nutrient group.Carbohydrates are present, but in their healthiest forms: legumes, vegetables and whole grains.These contain a greater amount of fiber, take longer to be absorbed by the body and do not cause the dangerous rosages of blood sugar.
The other foundation of the diet, and this is the most difficult to carry, is that it is reduced to only 800 calories daily, more than the original Taylor diet (only 600) but far from the 2,000 that are usually recommended inA healthy adult.This idea is based on the fact that a very restrictive diet causes our bodies to consume their internal fat reserves.And by consuming the fat that obstructs the pancreas it can re -generate insulin normally, and glucose levels can stabilize again.
Olive oil is the healthiest type of fat.(Corbis)
due to this strong caloric restriction, , nor are we noticDose, precisely to follow the diet), since blood glucose could decrease too much people who are taking medication to control hypertension.Nor is it an adequate diet for pregnant women, under 18 or people with a body mass index under 21.
This would be a diet type menu for a week.
Monday
Breakfast
Green tea shake and blueberries (110 calories)
Meal
Red pepper with cucumber salad, tomato and feta cheese (220 calories)
Dinner
Berenjena stuffed with lamb and grenadeTuesday
Breakfast
Egg Skally with avocado (200 calories)
Meal
Operates without carbohydrates: cheese, ham, apple and nuts (290 calories)
Dinner
Cauliflower vegetarian curry (270 calories)
Wednesday
Breakfast
Nuces and fruit signs (180 calories)
Meal
Beet Falafel (290 calories)
Dinner
Vegetarian frittata (320 calories)
Thursday
Breakfast
Mushroom stuffed with goat cheese and pine nuts (150 calories)
Meal
Pate of sardines (20 calories)
Dinner
Steamed fish with vegetables (370 calories)
Friday
Breakfast
Almond butter with apple, seeds and berries of the Goji (110 calories)
Meal
Temperate zucchini and cheese salad (280 calories)
Dinner
Spicy chicken with lentils (470 calories)
Saturday
Brunch
Jewish with cheese and mushrooms (260 calories)
Dinner
Sirloin with pepper sauce (510 calories)
Sunday
Brunch
Scamon Egg with salmon (320 calories)
Dinner
Baked chicken (420 calories)