Is it okay for a diabetic to eat a diet high in calories, while watching out for carbohydrates and sugars?

Question

Is it okay for a diabetic to eat a diet that is high in calories? What is the relationship between calories and blood glucose?

Answer 1

Go ahead eat whatever you want, just make sure that you take enough medication to cover for the carbohydrates and sugars you are eating and that you aren't eating so much that it is causing excessive weight gain.
I've had diabetes for 25+ years and my caloric consumption per day is 4000 to 6000 calories per day and my A1C is 5.4 and my weight is 150 lbs (≈74 kilograms) and I haven't had any adverse effects due to my diabetes at all.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Counting calories is important for the diabetic patient and watching the amount of carbohydrates that you eat is especially important. your body even if you are not diabetic is only equipped to handle 30-45 grams of carbohydrate per meal. Diabetics are told to eat between 45-60 per meal.
Your caloric intake should be based on what your weight goals are. IF you are wanting to lose weight then, you need to find a calorie range of 1300-1700 calories per day and decrease your fat and all other things that are bad and increase on the good things. You can go to a website that I was on earlier today and this site, you can join for free and it helps you keep track of what you eat and your totals for everything that you ate that day. The website is www.sparkpeople.com This should help. You can also visit the American Diabetes Association Website for more information on this as well.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

You should follow the advice of your diabetes educator and eat what they tell you. I know that when I was on insulin in the past that I had to eat 5 small meals a day and take 2 shots a day and I was pregnant and I still lost weight at this. So I feel that your Diabetic Nurse told you the right thing. I do not know how many grams of carbs she told you to eat, but it has been stated that most diabetic patients need to be eating between 30-60mg of carbs per meal. Follow the advice of your nurse and doctor, only they can make the best decisions for you to follow and stay well with this disease and help you control this with you being on insulin. I am not on insulin, but I know you have to watch what you eat and sometimes medications have to be adjusted, but you can not cut down on your insulin dosage unless your doctor gives you the say so that it would be alright, you need to discuss your concerns with him or her before doing anything drastic.

Answer 6

No, a diabetic should control his calorie intake as well. It's becoming more and more clear that type II diabetes is not just a disease of glucose levels, but also of fat handling. Being obese is known to be a risk factor for type II diabetes.

Answer 7

There are a number of things that increase the blood/sugar. Carbs, sugars, fructose, fats starches, even being upset or in pain will do it. A cold or flu will also. I take care of my 93 yr old Mother who is diabetic, and it's like stacking marbles! Often it will go up or down for NO reason! The Dr. says that is just the nature of the beast! Best wishes!

Answer 8

Your diet should consist of no more that 20% fat, about 30% protein, and about 50% COMPLEX carbohydrates

Blood sugar imbalances are often prompted by chronic mineral deficiencies. The vast majority of people living in industrialized nations suffer from deficiencies in major minerals like zinc, magnesium and selenium, and in other nutrients. The brain, sensing these deficiencies, sends the signal to keep eating until the needed minerals are acquired, but since most modern processed foods are virtually devoid of these minerals, a person will never achieve the necessary mineralization consumption, no matter how much food they eat.

That's one reason why people can eat enormous quantities of processed or manufactured foods and still feel hungry. Their body is not receiving the proper hormonal "full" signals due to the absence of minerals necessary for normal blood sugar metabolism and hormone balance.

According to recent studies conducted by the Pritikin Longevity Center, diabetes starts from too much fat in the diet and insufficient exercise, not malfunction of the pancreas as previously thought. The pancreas continues to produce insulin when you have diabetes but the body becomes insulin resistant. Research has shown that over 90% of diabetes cases can be TOTALLY CORRECTED with diet and exercise. That means that you don't have to have limbs removed due to diabetes-induced gangrene. You don't have to go blind or suffer cardiovascular abnormalities because of diabetes. You can actually REVERSE some of these conditions with diet (nutrition, not weight loss) and exercise, and the removal of parasites and candida.

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Best of luck.

Answer 9

You are a human being whom suffers from diabetes and not vi ca verca - a diabetic whom suffers from being a human being as many ignorant doctors at all levels would have you believe. Watch your calories if you want to remain healthy. The limits the treatment of diabetes causes great problems when you try to loose weight or get fit. You don't have to starve yourself I fill my stomach with the rare food stuffs that are full of fiber and not carbohydrate. A vet (better trained than doctors and less arogant) once adviced me to feed bran to my fat cat to fill her up. I do not know but I believe that bran is one of theese food stuffs, try mixing albran with your mince. Meat and fat of course are available to diabetics as they are to people without the condition but are laden with calories. Eat a little now and again.
Bare this in mind if you are unfortunate enough to get the poor medical care that I am getting in England. Consider this - it involves lateral thinking so doctors won't like it.
- take insulin to lower your blood sugar put on weight, stress your heart etc..
- don't take the insulin (as much) and leave your blood sugar high (8 - 15 mmol/L)this will atrophy your muscles after a number of years and you will loose weight, Nb. damage your kidneys, retina, and pay extra attention to infection etc.
- sometimes exercise will lower your blood sugar without taking insulin *. Other times however exercise will raise your blood sugar. Either way you loose weight, but always think twice before taking insulin to lower your blood sugar.
It is a choice of two evils.
All carbohydrates are callories; not all calories are carbohydrates, some are fats and proteins.
Please don't starve yourself, if I loose weight for two weeks I give myself a treat - eg. a bit of meat. Most vegetables (not all eg. salads) contain carbohydrates.
You will get most help from nurses and pharmacists.
*So little is known about the disease and so much money is made now by pharmaceutical companies selling insulin they are not seriously interested in finding out what causes the condition and now even NHS G.P.s make money sponcered by these companies to prescribe medicines they do not understand.
If you are trying to loose weight see a pharmacist about the cholesterol tablets you are probably on (again you are a normal human being with diabetes and not a diabetic whom just happens to be human) - a medically trained Biology teacher told me once that cholesterol was the building block of life it is found in cell walls. Yes people with heart attacks do have cholesterol possibly even raised colesterol (you build new cells with colesterol - if you were repairing damage you would need more colesterol) You need the same amount of colesterol as ordinary people !
Blood pressure tablets and colesterol tablets given as a preventative messure to diabetics by profiteering G.P.s I believe are being harmed and may well be putting on weight as a result. Low blood pressure can cause poor metabolism and consequently harm your diabetic control. Be warry of your G.P. ask someone who is independant and knows - ask your pharmasist.

Answer 10

Other advice given here was good, but another thing to pay attention to is that if you have diabetes, you are at a much higher risk of heart attack and stroke, so you really have to watch your saturated fat and trans fats. So you want to stick with lean meat and fish, low fat milk/yogurt/cheese, olive and canola oil, that type of thing. Obviously everyone messes up, and you don't want to deprive yourself all the time, just in general, that's the goal.