How to Eat Pasta on a Diabetic Diet

While on a diabetic diet, pasta can still be a healthy food choice if it is whole grain and portioned appropriately. Add protein and salad to a modest serving of whole grain pasta with health advice from a certified diabetes educator in this helpful video on nutrition.

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[D4RkxGAMING]

you put it in your mouth you chew then you swallow

[angryniggah]

@OvoPiano well said,..most critics never got this important point.

[tickyul]

@ovopiano: I agree that man is an omnivore, probably a better term would be an "opportunivore". But, the consumption of lots of carbs for the most part, probably coincided with the begining of agriculture (8-9 thousand years ago). I think that before that man survived MAINLY on veggies, fruits, nuts and whatever man could run down and stab to death. Speaking for myself and lots of people I have conversed with, low carb is really a healthy thing, lower BS, BP, hunger, weight, better mood.

[OvoPiano]

Man evolved on anything he could find.. Nut shells have been found in every paleolithic site analyzed, leaves and roots are consumed by the majority of hunter-gatherers populations, even the Inuits do a great effort to search for leaves and cloud berries (and they have never been healthy to begin with) The researcher Wranghammer even shows that cooking existed thousands of years before than we thought and we evolved eating cooked tubers. That's a sloppy territory. Humans are omnivorous.

[OvoPiano]

there are lot of people who never adapt to keto.

Lyle McDonald is the major expert on ketosis and ketogenic diets and he too acknowledges that lot of people will never adapt to keto and they will keep feeing terrible and without energy on keto. You can't generalize. As I said, if keto was the solution to diabetes, every diabetic would have normal BG's now and feeling good. Reality is far more complex than exaggerated theories on paper.

[tickyul]

@ovopiano: fine, if you want to up your carbs and you do not have any bad effects, go for it. There is no need to up your carbs, none. I am active, I eat about 5-10 grams of carbs a day and do fine. Full keto adaption CAN take up to 3 months, that kinda sucks.

[tickyul]

@ovopiano: If you are eating low carb and your BS rises, you are probably eating too much protein. If you have a carbohydrate metabolism disorder and manage to keep your BS normal, you still may have abnormal levels of insulin, this is not a good thing. Also, lots of people with ttdm, following the standard reccomended diet still have to take toxic drugs because the diet does not work. Man evolved and thrived on meat and veggies. No biological requirement to eat carbs...ZERO!

[OvoPiano]

I do eat pasta, whole wheat (I measure with a meter and whole wheat doesn't spike me as white) and as long as the portion is small, there are proteins, fats and veggies in the plate as well, it's a meal that doesn't play havoc with my BGs. So this video is spot on, expecially if a steak and veggies, ketogenic, very low carb and no starches doesn't work for you or stopped working after few months, as in my case.

[OvoPiano]

Dr. Atkins also never said to keep eating a low carb forever, you're supposed to climb a carbohydrates ladder until you find the amount of carb your body tolerates and needs. For many people that amount is around 150 grams and more if they're into sport or athletically active. The induction never worked for me. What works for me is a diet with around 30% to 40% carbs with more carbs after a workout. Very lot fat diets like 10% to 20% are fat-deficient and revolting, so I agree there.

[tickyul]

@ovopiano: Dr Atkins treated nearly 100K people, the majority had great health improvements. Of course no one diet is going to work for everyone, the low fat scam is just making people hungrier and fatter, adding many sick diabetics to the hospital roles. Man evolved mainly eating animal and vegetables, a diet humans are well adapted too. If you change your diet, It will take time to adapt, lots of people quite low carb when their body is in flux, adapting to using fat for energy, no willpower.