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ORIGINAL: OsideGirl

It's almost impossible to eat a no carb diet, you have to be very vigilant to achieve it. It can be done, but there's no fiber and you lack certain vitamins. (It's basically straight meat, no condiments, no fruits or veggies) You have to be really careful about what seasonings you use, etc.

You can do a low carb diet which removes all simple carbs and uses only the lowest of the veggies and fruits. (Atkins)

You can do a reduced carb diet which removes simple carbs and allows a wider range of complex carbs. (South Beach)

You can do a moderate carb diet which allows small amounts of simple carbs. (The Zone)

This is a good website for you to read: http://www.diabetes-warrior.net/

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ORIGINAL: DesFIP

Low carbs because you can't really have zero. But if she says some carbs are okay, too many patients interpret that to mean they can eat a sleeve of cookies a day.

Try the South Beach Diet, low fat protein and low carb veggies.

Is he keeping a food diary? Because that's the best tool I know. If you have to write down that you ate a bag of popcorn and one of M & Ms, the odds are you won't eat them.

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ORIGINAL: kalikshama

- you can do the South Beach Diet for free online for a week or two and the book is probably available at your library or through free cycle. Run this by his doctor and yours and do it together. I bet it would be very beneficial for both of you.

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ORIGINAL: DesFIP

\ a bag of popcorn \

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ORIGINAL: njlauren

You can make popcorn in the microwave without the oil, use a brown paper bag and put the kernals in the bag, and microwave it, it will make popcorn. If you think it is too dry, you can use one of the spray oils (olive oil is healthy), and use salt (if you can handle it) or salt substitute. The microwave popcorn you buy is often loaded with shortening with trans fats, bad news. Popcorn probably isn't as bad on carbs because it has fiber in it, fiber in a sense cancels out some of the carb value (it is why packages talk about 'net carbs', it is why brown rice and brown bread and whole grains are better than white ones, because of the fiber).

One note, be really careful of diet soda, especially if you are diabetic. Most sodas contain nutrasweet (aspartame) and the stuff is a disaster area, it has a really high glycemic index (and real sode, with government sponsored high fructose corn syrup, is tremendously bad), and Splenda isn't much better. Unfortinately, I have yet to find a diet soda with Stevia that tastes good, I tried this soda called Zevia that was barf inducing (fortunately, my prime drink is water). If you like Stevia, I use a product called Nu Stevia (I got it from whole foods, but amazon has it) and they have a version that is zero carb that worked well (lot cheaper from amazon). Diabetics can use Agave, but it is not a diet product, it is high calorically and carb wise...

I agree with others, zero carbs is next to impossible, the real answer is for the carbs, eat things like brown rice, fibrous vegetables along with lean meat, stay away from refined sugars, white flour and processed foods......

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ORIGINAL: LittleGirlHeart
Is it healthy to cut out all carbs, no matter what they are?

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ORIGINAL: LittleGirlHeart

Last visit his dr said he really should go 100 percent no carb, of any kind and every dietician and diabetes class I have gone to says we need carbs for our brain,  I do not trust the 100 percent no carb thing.

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For those of you who are afraid that "you need to eat carbs", well, YOU DON'T. As someone mentioned, Inuits (and other peoples) have eaten exclusively meat-based diets for thousands of years.

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I think he is tracking things on an app on his phone an it tells him how many calories he's had an how many he's had left and if you came in under your calorie count, then you can factor in exercise,

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ORIGINAL: LittleGirlHeart


I know. But quite honestly im still going to eat bagged and theater style popcorn every now and then. And. I do mean rarely. Its been about a year since i had bagged microwave stuff. Air popped, even with olive oil or vegetable oil popped in a bowl, is low carb. And where microwave bag crap is extremly high carb ish, air popped. You can eat lots of and still its not a horrible amount of carbs.

Diet sodas are so nasty. You would have to pay me quite a lot of money to drink them. Im not a big. Soda drinker anyway. Prefere iced tea, or liptons, or plain h20.

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ORIGINAL: njlauren

You can make popcorn in the microwave without the oil, use a brown paper bag and put the kernals in the bag, and microwave it, it will make popcorn. If you think it is too dry, you can use one of the spray oils (olive oil is healthy), and use salt (if you can handle it) or salt substitute. The microwave popcorn you buy is often loaded with shortening with trans fats, bad news. Popcorn probably isn't as bad on carbs because it has fiber in it, fiber in a sense cancels out some of the carb value (it is why packages talk about 'net carbs', it is why brown rice and brown bread and whole grains are better than white ones, because of the fiber).

One note, be really careful of diet soda, especially if you are diabetic. Most sodas contain nutrasweet (aspartame) and the stuff is a disaster area, it has a really high glycemic index (and real sode, with government sponsored high fructose corn syrup, is tremendously bad), and Splenda isn't much better. Unfortinately, I have yet to find a diet soda with Stevia that tastes good, I tried this soda called Zevia that was barf inducing (fortunately, my prime drink is water). If you like Stevia, I use a product called Nu Stevia (I got it from whole foods, but amazon has it) and they have a version that is zero carb that worked well (lot cheaper from amazon). Diabetics can use Agave, but it is not a diet product, it is high calorically and carb wise...

I agree with others, zero carbs is next to impossible, the real answer is for the carbs, eat things like brown rice, fibrous vegetables along with lean meat, stay away from refined sugars, white flour and processed foods......

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ORIGINAL: kalikshama
However, the Inuit have lifespans 12 to 15 years shorter than the average Canadian's, which is thought to be a result of overcrowding.[65] The life expectancy gap is not closing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit_culture

The traditional lifestyle of the Inuit is adapted to extreme climatic conditions; their essential skills for survival are hunting and trapping. Agriculture was never possible in the millions of square kilometers of tundra and icy coasts from Siberia to Northern America and Greenland. Therefore, hunting became the core of the culture and cultural history of the Inuit of central and east Arctic. Thus, the everyday life in modern Inuit settlements, established only some decades ago, still reflects the five-thousand year long history of a typical hunting culture which allowed the Inuit peoples and their ancestors to achieve one of the most remarkable human accomplishments, the population of the Arctic.

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ORIGINAL: kalikshama

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I think he is tracking things on an app on his phone an it tells him how many calories he's had an how many he's had left and if you came in under your calorie count, then you can factor in exercise,

Sounds like MyFitnessPal, which is free, and helped me lose 30# last year. You can do it on a desktop computer even easier!