LowGlycemic Load Diet Facilitates Weight Loss in Overweight Adults with High Insulin Secretion

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Fair enough, but not that it still may be impossible to discover an efficacious recommendation to the general public, if it so happens that the general public consists of subgroups of people with considerably different kinds of nutritional biochemistry. My general impression from a number or recent research reports is that suggestive evidence is accumulating that this in fact is the case, e.g. the distinction between those with insulin resistance and those without.

You're quite right, but there is also accumulating suggestive evidence that if you want to stop the progression of diabetic complications it may be necessary not only to bring down prolonged modest BG elevations, but also transient high prost-prandial BG spikes. In other words, while BG spikes are not as bad as modest prolonged elevations, they're still bad enough to damage you, although more slowly than prolonged modest elevations.

I do hope so. There are certainly a lot who do. But you can't read this newsgroup without noticing that there is certainly a significant number of doctors who react with dismay to the idea that patients should be given some responsibility for dosage adjustment, etc.. In my own UK NHS experience, whenever I've changed medical group practice I've selected a new practice with a particularly good reputation, but I've nevertheless had to work my way through a few doctors before I found one that wasn't upset by how much I wanted to know, how much I did know, and how much I wanted to take my own decisions based on them helping me to become as fully informed as I thought necessary.

I'm not talking about a mild reluctance. I'm talking about doctors who far example would refuse to tell me what my blood pressure was, and would simply go on insisting that all I needed to know was that it was "ok for my age".

Yes, I would agree, and as I've posted in the past, I've discovered by expriment that with my typical kind of diet, 2lbs is about the threshold for me above which I gain weight and below which I lose it.

I'm sure, however, that you can recall a number of doctors disagreeing with your diet on the grounds that a member of the public couldn't be trusted not to eat 2lbs of ice cream and think they were following your diet.

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