Tuesday, July 24, 2007

GREEN BEANS AND FASTING BLOOD SUGAR

According to the folks at http://www.watercure2.org/ the best way to keep your liver from dumping glucose into your bloodstream at night is to eat *GREEN BEANS* right before bedtime. Go ahead, have some butter - just a little - on them, too.

The green beans have tryptophan, an amino acid that makes serotonin, which, in turn, keeps the water balance in your body steady. They also have fiber and no carbs.

I tried the green beans, and I am happy to report that my fasting blood sugar the next two mornings was under 125 - in the non-diabetic "normal" range.

So, my liver wants green beans at bedtime! Hah! Guess I will give it what it wants.

And the water cure continues to work well for me, making my post-prandial readings less than 140 on average - again, totally normal. But this assumes that I am eating 5 small meals per day, sticking to my 25gm fat, 100 gm carbs, and 100 gm protein on a daily basis, and taking my alpha lipoic acid and reishi mushroom and a good multivitamin/mineral complex, and 10 gm Omega 3 fats, flax and fish oil. I also eat a protein bar before going for my daily walk (5 gm fat, 15 gm carbs, and 15gm protein) and if I overeat at any time, I have extra water and salt, and walk the extra calories off. Thirty minutes of walking uses up about 150 calories for me, I am 5'9" tall.

It is still lots better than taking insulin. And I have half a pancreas to work with, so this means anyone who is just "Type II" can pull this off and avoid the trail of tears that comes from insulin, the resulting increased insulin resistance, and end stage diabetes, with loss of vision, kidneys, and toes.

Better to adapt the food to what the body wants and needs, take the water cure, and avoid medications as much as possible.

Martha

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Dallas Real Estate Broker said...

I am type 2 and I will say diet and exercise have completely taken me back to normal ranges from a 323 just a year ago.

Diet now includes mainly Vegan meals with black beans, green beans, corn, spinach, olive oil, vinegar, fruits, sprouts, squash and other veggies.

Type 2 can absolutely be gotten under control with the right diet plan.

Anonymous said...

Umm. A normal fasting level is 100 or under. Anything over a 100 in considered to be borderline diabetic.

Martha Katona said...

Yes, this is true. Since I am severely diabetic, both type I and type II, achieving anything under 125 is a victory for me. Also, as people age, the goals creep up a bit. The newest from the ADA for older people is not to control down to normal levels, ie under 100, but to allow for a higher number. The last clinical trial on tight control had to be stopped due to increased death from all causes among 3,000 people when they took diabetics down to "normal" range. As long as my A1c is under 7, I am happy and my doctor is too.

Anonymous said...

New to your sight. I love the info. I'm a diabetic type ll. Not in control. High 300. They gave me I Insulin. I will try green beans too. I'm insulin resistant. And it's true the units just keep going up.

Martha Katona said...

Start by balancing protein and carbs. You can use whey protein to balance without adding fat, and it will kill your appetite. Then add supplements. Good ones are alpha lipoic acid, berberine, fish oil, etc. Go for a 30 minute walk each and every day. I walk for 30 minutes in the house if the weather is too bad. Follow the diet in the left side bar of this blog to lose weight. A great place to get food composition is calorieking.com and a great place to make food labels for your recipes is recipecalc.com.

Good luck. After I lost my weight, added good supplements and gentle exercise, I feel better now than I have felt in decades. Life has a funny way of teaching us the lessons we need to learn.

Martha

Anonymous said...

My blood sugar was in the mid-400s in late December when I was diagnosed with Type II diabetes. I was put on Metformin twice a day and insulin. Initially I was injecting 20 units of Lantus at night but went up to 25 when my blood sugar was still in the mid-200s. My vision had gotten very blurry. Since then I've ramped up on non-starchy vegetables and pretty much cut out certain carbs (bread, potatoes, sugar). With the change in diet and an increase in Metformin, I've stopped the insulin and I'm almost always under 100 in blood sugar in the morning. My vision is almost back to normal.

Martha Katona said...

Congratulations! And it is very sad that we have a food supply that is killing us. I always tell people the human body has a preferred fuel mixture. It is 1 to 1 protein grams to carb grams. The protein is a huge molecule, and when you eat it along with carbs, it stops the blood sugar spike from the carbs. You would not put diesel fuel into a gasoline engine, yet that is what you are doing if you are eating carbs by themselves, or more carbs than protein. The good news is you can avoid diabetes if you apply this rule strictly. The bad news is if you go on eating the way everyone else eats (fast food, carbs by themselves, more carbs than protein) you will be diabetic along with everyone else who is not paying attention.

Anonymous said...

That's exactly what the dietician I met with said. He gave me one of those charts with a plate divided into quarters. One quarter is protein, one quarter carbs (starchy veg like peas or potato; fruit; etc.) in the same amount as protein, and the other two quarters are non-starchy veg like carrots, spinach, kale, summer squash, tomatoes, etc.