Why can't a diabetic survive as a carnivore?

Answer 1

Because theres no carbs in meat, a diabetic needs carbs to survive.

Answer 2

Looking at the other replies, you may need to clarify. If you mean as a total carnivore - probably unwise because you'll miss crucial vitamins, minerals and fibre.

If you meant as an omnivore, with a balance of meat and plant foods - then of course a diabetic can survive well provided the right foods are selected to manage both nutrition and blood glucose levels. Depending on the type and nature of the diabetes, insulin or medication may be needed as well - but the dietary balance is a crucial element.

The reverse is more difficult. A Vegan or a Vegetarian can also manage - but with more difficulty because of the more limited range of protein sources.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Your body can survive on an all meat food source, but you don't need to go that far.Include vegetables(exec pt carrots). Try just eating meat(preferably chicken) and veggies for one day.Drink only sugar free drinks.Check your blood sugar levels during the day.You will like what you see.

Answer 5

Why did you think so? Whoever told you has misled you, almost completely. To understand why, there's some needed background.

Food contains, broadly, three kinds of nutrients. Carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. Together with very small amounts of minerals and vitamins and larger amounts of stuff like fiber that passes on through. None of these later are used for fuel, though some are required in some the internal machinery which does the fuel processing, and so if you're deficient, you may have troubles absorbing and using food. Other deficiency troubles are also caused by too little of a vitamin or mineral or more than one. On the other hand, too much of some vitamins or minerals can be very bad. B6 in quantities not too much higher than that necessary to avoid deficiency symptoms causes nerve damage. And iron, in quantities higher than the that absolutely required can cause considerable damage to tissues all over the body. Tired blood may be caused by low iron levels, but it's uncommon. In fact, iron poisoning is so common that children's vitamins are required (at least in the US) to carry a warning about correct dosages. It's been a common cause of child overdoses.


Protein
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Of the main components, protein is not generally used for cellular fuel except in emergencies, like starvation. Only a few of the basic protein components -- the amino acids -- can be converted to glucose for use as fuel. the rest will be simply discarded and passed out in urine. And, if you eat more protein than your body needs now (no storage for it), it's also disassembled and passed out. A couple of ounces a day for the average adult male, less for smaller folk, more for those growing rapidly, or healing from say surgery or burns. We can make about half of the 22 or so amino acids we need from other amino acids. The rest must be in food -- they're the essential amino acids, and proteins which contain them are called complete. Generally animal sources are complete, while pant sources are incomplete. However, some plants are incomplete in ways other are not. so there several combinations of plants which, together, are complete even if neither is alone. Beans and rice, for instance.

Fats
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Fat use is controlled by the main metabolic control system, the glucose-insulin arrangement. When glucose is low, insulin is also low, and fat is mobilized (from food and from stored fat in fat cells). While when glucose is present (from food mostly) fat is taken into fat cells and not used for fuel. A small part of the triglyceride form of fat (the glycerol backbone) can be converted to glucose when necessary. But this is not a very important source of glucose. There are a few essential fats which are required. We cannot make them from other fats internally, so they must be present in the diet -- they're the essential fats.

Carbohydrates
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Carbohydrates, specifically glucose, are the main fuel source for body cells. Glucose is found in grapes, and is a component of the most common plant energy storage, starch. It's also part of common table sugar (1/2 glucose and 1/2 fructose), and some other carbohydrates. Any carbohydrate that's a source of glucose will interact with the insulin system and cause release of insulin which in turn will cause cells (about 2/3 of them) to absorb glucose from the blood, and both liver and muscle cells to convert some glucose into glycogen, which is the body's main glucose storage mechanism. Liver glycogen is taken apart and dumped into the blood when insulin is low, muscle glycogen is retained in the cell.

Some carbohydrates don't participate in this system, though they also can be used as fuel. The most important these days is fructose, which is normally found in fruits such as oranges. But since a technique for converting corn syrup into high fructose corn syrup was developed, it's become the favorite (because cheapest) sweetner in industrial use. For instance, most soft drinks are sweetened with it. Fructose isn't part of the insulin-glucose system.

so, if you eat enough carbohydrate, it'll be used for cellular fuel, and if it contains glucose, it Willl cause the pancreas' beta cells to release insulin and force fat into the fat cells.if you don't there won';t be much insulin and the liver will provide blood glucose from its internal glycogen stores -- until they run out. Thereafter, fats wil used for fuel and taken from fat cells. That is called ketosis and is perfectly normal.

Diabetics either don't produce insulin (type 1 diabetes) or can't use it a littel poorly or almost not at all (type 2 diabetes). The result is that blood glucose is high, sometimes very high dangerously high. And various systems which depend on the level fo insulin to do their jobs properly will also be out of adjustment, sometimes very much so.

Diabetes often causes tissue damage, in eyes, feet and legs, nerves, and kidneys. Diabetes is the most common cause of kidney dialysis. And here is the connection between protein and diabetics. If the kidneys have been damaged, it's generally consdiered wise to reduce the load on them, so as to make them last longer, and reduced protein diets are often prescribed for this purpose.

So, if you're a carnivore, you might be taking in more protein than is wise, especially if you already have damaged kidneys.

Answer 6

i dont think anyone could because meat is protein with 0 carbs. carbs are what give a person energy

Answer 7

We all need some carbs or we'd continue to lose energy and weight till we were dead.

Answer 8

I don't belive any human can live on meat alone, not for long.

Answer 9

What the hell are you talking about???

They CAN and DO.
Meat has no carbs, so it does not affect sugar.