The challenge - My story + How does one choose the best approach to Type 2 Diabetes Remission?

[beating_my_betes]

The strips I brought are £9.49 delivered off Amazon for a pack of 50.

As opposed to £60 for 500, from the above link. It's less with a discount.

 

[beating_my_betes]

When I used the word carbs, I'm referring to plain carbs like rice, potatoes, and pasta, or white flour, which are predominantly just glucose, when digested and absorbed.

Not sure why starches breaking down to sugars would be aproblem. But even if that were the case, why would you be fine with fruit, which hits the blood with simple sugars almost instantly?

As to your contention that the given plain starches would result in a "reduced variety in macro nutrients, and micronutrients":

 

[beating_my_betes]

What I said. You edited my reply to remove my caveat. 18p per strip versus 14p

I'm not talking about the bulk discount, but the extra discount code, on the total.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

As to your contention that the given plain starches would result in a "reduced variety in macro nutrients, and micronutrients":

Well to be fair, there are some deficiencies there of macro and micronutrients (protein, fat, omega 3, omega 6, sodium, calcium, Vit E, Vit K, Vit A, Choline, Folate). B12 isn’t listed.

Plus I’m really not sure anyone would choose to subsist purely on 2500kcal of the starches listed, and nothing else 😉 (though I recognise that was not really your point).

Still it is surprising how many micronutrients are found in significant amounts in what we can sometimes think of as ‘empty’ beige carbs 🙂

 

[beating_my_betes]

Well to be fair, there are some deficiencies there of macro and micronutrients (protein, fat, omega 3, omega 6, sodium, calcium, Vit E, Vit K, Vit A, Choline, Folate). B12 isn’t listed.

Plus I’m really not sure anyone would choose to subsist purely on 2500kcal of the starches listed, and nothing else 😉 (though I recognise that was not really your point).

Still it is surprising how many micronutrients are found in significant amounts in what we can sometimes think of as ‘empty’ beige carbs 🙂

Indeed! This was not me sharing what I believe to be the idealised cover-all diet; rather, I was just dealing with the statement that I'd previously quoted in an earlier post. And yes, such erroneous claims are often made about these carbs and plant foods in general. I'm not blaming at OK1 for believing something so commonly accepted. But it's important to counter such claims when possible.

The charts above show some very interesting and perhaps surprising things. It would only take some changs to fill in the gaps, and not from where many might perhaps think. Suffice to say, the generally reductionist position on the nutrient sufficiency of animal-foods is both overstated and potentially very harmful.

Nutrition is a wide and very nuanced subject. However, to the extent that we may or not be able to rely on the RDA as a basic template, I'd imagine that most everyone would come up short.