You didn’t say what diet your mum changed from. You could replace a lot of grains and root vegetables (very high in carbohydrate) with a lot of non-root vegetables and see a big reduction in diabetes symptoms, but that doesn’t mean the diet is particularly low carbohydrate.
DakRalter@thelemmy.club 5 weeks ago
Traditional Indian omni diet. You don’t need to go low carb. In fact the desired ratio is 80% carbs, 10% protein, 10% fat. She still had grains and other carbs. It’s about the type of carbs (slow digesting). For example bread will nearly always be high GI because the yeast has done the digestion for you. Whereas white pasta will be lower, because it takes a long time to digest. Carbs are good, as long as it’s the right type of carbs.
People who say they’ve reversed their diabetes by going low carb haven’t reversed it, because it would come right back if they ate carbs. It’s like saying I made my arm fireproof by not holding a flame to it. Whereas going high fibre, low fat, low GI will allow you to still eat carbs without sugar spikes.
As I said, look into the work of Neal Bernard, who has reversed type 2 diabetes without cutting carbs and without any other lifestyle changes besides diet.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=FxPSvcv8GXk
You asked to be directed. So I’ve directed you.
davesmith@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
I said direct me to a low carb plant based diet.
In response you told me it didn’t need to be low carb. Easy block.