Could carbs be the culprit?
………………………….. My first breakthrough came when I spoke with a fellow diabetic, a body- worker who listened patiently while I recited what I’d been eating for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks, conscientiously following the advice from my ADA-inspired seminars. “Just tear up those lists and menus,” he said with some disgust. After much experimentation, he said, the only thing that had worked for him was to strip all carbohydrates from his diet, then slowly add them back, monitoring his blood sugar to see the effect of each food. I tried that—replacing cereal with yogurt at breakfast, having salads instead of sandwiches for lunch—and things started to improve. The next time I went for some lab work, I got a letter from my HMO saying I had achieved “good diabetes control.” I had scored a 6.6 on a test called the Hemoglobin A1c, which measures blood glucose over a period of several months. (Anything under 7 is considered good by the ADA.) Still, my score translated to
