Dear Roxanne, Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed your post! I admire you for taking responsibility for your health and overcoming diabetes!
My sincere sympathies on your cousin dying and the 'mystery' that this may have caused for some. I know this must be a difficult time for you and the family and my heart goes out to you. How is his wife dealing with all this? What kind of 'friends' are accusing the wife? Or did I not read it correctly? We are glad you are back and hope that life will be bright and happy for you! Remember that you have many friends you don't know on this group so if you have to talk, let us know! Sincerely, Orpha oilth...@valink.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roxanne" <rtr...@bellsouth.net> To: <silver-list@eskimo.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 9:57 PM Subject: RE: CS>Atkins diet Warning > Dear Orpha, > > I've been doing Atkins for six years after I received a diagnoses of > diabetes. I have lost 170 lbs, and I have my endocrinologist blessings. He > says most people do not take matters seriously when they have diabetes. My > diabetes is controlled with no medications, just Atkins. If you are > following Atkins, and read the book, you will find out that you need to find > how many carbs your body can handle. After the two weeks induction, or ever > how long you stay on induction, after than period, the book recommends that > you start adding back carbs in limited amounts, after a time you add in > fruits. Green veggies is a must on Atkins. I enjoy many fruits that I > choose to eat. Low carbs ones like strawberries, melons, blueberries and > things like that. A lot of people will add a half of bakes potato which is > fine on maintenance with Atkins. Since bake potatos and white flour and > rice, raises my blood sugar, I choose to stay away from those. > > The book also recommends limiting your proteins if you have any kidney > damage from diabetes, but since I don't, I eat all I want. > > Sorry, I haven't been around lately. My cousin committed suicide about a > month ago, and I have been going back and forth to visit with relatives in > Mississippi. Nobody believes he committed suicide, most think the wife had > something to do with it. Long story . . . Depression and suicide runs in > the family, so I don't know what to think. He was an attorney, and never > complained of depression. It's so weird, nobody wants to talk about it, > it's like . . . My relatives act like that everything is normal, except for > the friends who don't except it's suicide. Very complicated. Anyway, I'm > back for now. > > Roxanne > > Roxanne > > > > Dear friends, > > > > I have been following the thread about Atkins diet and just wanted to > share > > a word of caution for those of you on it and others who may be > > thinking about getting on it. > > > > Now I have not done the Atkins diet and I never will for a couple of > > reasons. First, I do not feel great on a high protein diet! Secondly, > > I > like > > to eat a lot of fruit and vegetables and I would not enjoy being > restricted > > to eating them. > > > > Back in June I was at a health forum in Nashville and listened to an > > interesting lecture by a low carb bar formulator who discussed carbs > > and different diets like Atkins. > > > > According to this speaker, it can be dangerous to eat more the the RDA > > of protein for long term as the liver does not know what to do with > > the > excess > > protein and then it goes to the kidneys. This protein may be harmful > > to > the > > kidneys. He said he wants to share this out of heartfelt concern to > > all because he has 2 personal friends who did the Atkins diet for a > > few years, and they overdid the protein, now both of these guys are on > > kidney > dialysis. > > > -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
