Has anyone heard of the Dash Diet? My doctor told me about it because I have high blood pressure, but I wondered if it would do my diabetes any good. I will be researching it, but wondered if anyone has been on it or heard of it?
Debbie ----- Original Message ----- From: "silversurfer1952 ." <silversurfer1...@hotmail.com> To: <silver-list@eskimo.com> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 1:59 PM Subject: CS>Diabetes / Low carb diet > Hi Robb, > > There are other diets besides Atkins one could follow that would help > stabalize diabetes. Example: Years back when I was at the Hippocrates > Institute in Boston (now in Florida), I met a married couple who were there > on account of the husband's cancer. As they were following the diet, the > wife who had diabetes found that she had to steadily decrease the amount of > insulin she was taking. Without a high carb diet, the insulin wasn't needed > as much. The Hippocrates diet is a raw vegetarian one. > > I have an excellent low carb diet book by Diana Schwarzbein, MD. The two > diets she outlines (one meat-based, one vegetarian) are balanced and easy to > follow. It takes a little "carb counting" at first to get used to things, > but it only took me one week of counting before I was able to eye-ball > things and know how many carbs I was getting. > > A friend of mine of over 30 years developed diabetes a few years ago. She > is following some sort of low carb diet but I don't know which one (I could > find out though). She actually started the diet in order to lose weight and > lower her high blood pressure, both of which she has suceeded in doing. > Almost as a by-product of the diet she found her diabetes stabalizing. I > don't know the particulars of her "disease" as we no longer live in the same > city and write only infrequently, but I know she's doing much, much better. > > Btw, it's not uncommon for kibble-fed housecats to develop diabetes. In a > newly diagnosed cat, it *is* possible to turn around the condition by > supporting the pancreas and other organs with "glandulars" from Standard > Process for example, and by feeding a meat-based low-carb diet. Cats are, > after all, obligate carnivores. In fact, if I were diabetic I too would > take these glandulars (eg: Pancreatrophin), and follow a low carb diet of > course. Seek out a good naturopath in your area. > > all the best, > Elle > > From: Robb Allen (view other messages by this author) > Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 07:25:35 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ > > I'm not sure what good advice you are talking about.........I can't go on > the atkins diet anyway........I WON"T live on meat and cheese.....and there > is NOTHING else on the diet that I like........Atkins would finish ruining > my health.......There is a similar discussion on another group......about > the Hallalujah diet.....which by the way is the most hideous diet I have > ever seen........I'm sure there aren't many that could stick to that > diet.......and if they did it wouldn't be living .......it would be > hell........Robb > > _________________________________________________________________ > STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.msn.com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgmarket%3den-ca > > > -- > 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> > >