Paleo Diet and Paleolithic Diet Questions & Answers

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For the life of me I do not understand how you can blame fat for diabetes? This is straight from Wikipedia:

"Diabetes mellitus, often simply referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar, either because the body does not produce enough insulin, or because cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced."

Even if you know nothing about how he body works, this simple definition screams sugar causing disease! But the crazy thing is most of the so called experts who are apparently educated about how the body works still want to blame fat. Recently Paula Dean announced she has diabetes, big surprise, and now the media is saying its due to her famously using copious amounts of butter in her recipes. Of course it couldn't possibly be the sugar an flor she is adding the butter too!! During her announcement her sons made a lowfat lasagna with only 250 calories per slice.....the so called experts cheered on the efforts as if the lowfat would help a diabetic but the insulin response from the mainly carbohydrate meal would have no effect.

It's always a picture of the cheeseburger, meatball sub, pizza, or French fries that are shown as causation for diabetes and bad health, but it's burger, meatball, pizza and oil tht is vilified instead of the empty carbs that create an insulin response and induce a negative immune response in the gut.

How can something like diabetes, that has a cause so obvious, be so misunderstood and the misunderstanding be excepted?

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Who is Paula Dean?? – Matt Jan 17 2012 at 20:26

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"How can something like diabetes, that has a cause so obvious, be so misunderstood and the misunderstanding be excepted?" Because Deen is a PAID spokesperson for Novo Nordisk, which manufactures Victoza, which is used to treat Type II diabetes. Its all about the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Emphasis on '$' – Bill1102inf Jan 17 2012 at 20:47

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Holy Makarel, Krispy kreme donuts + a stick butter + 1lb confectioners sugar + sweetened condensed milk, fruit cocktail and dark rum. Back of the napkin calories? About 800 per mouth full, half fat half sugar, and not the good kinds either. – Bill1102inf Jan 17 2012 at 21:21

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Bwahahahahhahahahhahahahha! Sure, let's blame it on the butter. Because butter contains soooo much sugar. Yes, that's the ticket. Must be all those sucrose molecules in butter. EPIC FAIL! – raydawg Jan 17 2012 at 21:27

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I bet she could completely reverse it with resistance training. – Travis Culp♦ Jan 17 2012 at 21:47

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Kelly · Answer 1 · 2012-01-17 20:28:30Z UTC

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I saw her on the Today Show this morning. She said her dietary changes were that she had to quit drinking sweet tea and eats "less" bread.

But then the recipes she made all were low-fat. Totally ludicrous.

And I know she was known as the "butter queen" but all of her recipes were loaded with sugar and carbs. The fat from the butter was probably what kept her from keeling over from hyperglycemia.

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i was going to say this too, the fat probably helped her!! ironic indeed – holly Jan 17 2012 at 20:32

I totally agree! – legup Jan 17 2012 at 23:57

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I saw that she said she was drinking the sweet tea every day starting at lunch and then throughout the rest of the day. That in itself could have caused it. JFC. – Lutfisk Jan 18 2012 at 4:10

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That stupid sweet tea habit. Making blood glucose high all the time to force the blood lipids into storage. – thhq Jan 18 2012 at 15:10

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If she was drinking Sweet Tea like my mom made it (who's from the south) it was 3/4 cup of sugar per quart. – Tikivana Jan 18 2012 at 20:28

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Matt · Answer 2 · 2012-01-17 22:37:26Z UTC

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Butter was just a sugar delivery device more than likely.

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I would give you two up votes for that ;) – Stephanie Jan 17 2012 at 22:50

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Fat increases carbohydrate palateability and vice versa. Makes sense to me! – Matt Jan 17 2012 at 23:18

I'd reverse it. Sugar was the butter delivery device. – thhq Jan 18 2012 at 4:00

As was the tea. – Curmujeon Jan 22 2012 at 0:10

Bread-Eating Beelzebub · Answer 3 · 2012-01-17 21:21:31Z UTC

It's probably a good idea to read Stephen Guyenet's insulin resistance series, which I think is the best exploration I've seen online of the many factors at play: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/search/label/diabetes

Unfortunately, Paula ended up with ALL of them. Large amounts of sugar. Excess calories. Micronutrient malnutrition. Inflammation from high omega-6 consumption and probably from gluten consumption. Probably little to no exercise. And coming from similar genetic stock, it might be that she and I share some SNPs related to higher t2 diabetes risk. However, I'm not planning to trip that switch. The people in my family who have diabetes all eat like Paula, the people who don't primarily eat a whole foods diet, but vary in total carb content.

Christopher Gagnon · Answer 4 · 2012-01-18 03:19:58Z UTC

Paula Deen's entire livelihood is based on the cheerful southern sprite who eats anything and everything without compunction. She has a brand to protect, so she can't very easily suddenly shift gears--or so it might seem.

Ironically, were she to embrace a paleo-type diet (perhaps with some allowances for dairy, and amounts of fruit, nuts, and seeds that hardcore paleos wouldn't go for, but would still be better for diabetes), over time, she could relatively painlessly modify her famous cooking to a much healthier style without alienating her core audience. Meat! Butter! Dairy! She could slowly reduce the sugar and carbs, and begin to increase the fat and protein, and in the process, trick her audience into some really amazing, healthy cooking that stays true to her rootsy southern style.

Deen has an effervescent, seductive (if highly curated) personality, and I'm very saddened by how she is managing this situation. Ultimately, Deen will suffer continuing health declines, while squandering an opportunity to provide a valuable service to people who could really benefit from her influence.

Nance · Answer 5 · 2012-01-18 00:17:41Z UTC

This article tries to be more even-handed.

I found it particularly interesting that Linda Siminerio, director of the Diabetes Institute at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is quoted as saying, “To my knowledge no particular food has been linked to an increase in the risk of diabetes,” Siminerio said. “It’s being overweight and inactive.”

You really can't blame Paula or the media when so many qualified professionals give mixed signals about diabetes.

Joshua · Answer 6 · 2012-01-18 03:11:40Z UTC

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Go figure...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv8yEMRDe_w

Here's how I'd hack Paula's dia-beet-us...

STOP EATING BURGERS ON DONUTS!

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Edward41397 · Answer 7 · 2012-01-18 03:14:32Z UTC

I was once fooled into thinking that lifestyle and dietary choices had little or nothing to do with disease and ill health. Unfortunately, that belief cost me 4" of my sigmoid colon and a myriad of other digestive issues. What I'm getting at is that the majority of our society truly believes that fat and cholesterol are bad for you and highly refined carbs are ok in moderation. I have a strong family history of diabetes and some family members are ok with injecting insulin as long as they can continue to eat the foods most likely responsible for making them sick. Talk about addictive foods and addictive beliefs.

thhq · Answer 8 · 2012-01-18 03:54:34Z UTC

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Yes, it was the mass quantities of butter and oil that formed the waistline visceral fat strata, which probably induced the D2. But mass quantities of sugar and flour forced it to deposit. Like matches and gasoline...

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JeJ · Answer 9 · 2012-03-26 01:59:36Z UTC

Just in case type II diabetic didn't face enough stigma (as someone training to be a dietician, anyone with type II diabetes just completely gets blamed and faulted). The negative "oh my god, she ate fat, and now she's fat, oh no!" media reaction that now has people following her around reporting every time she eats a freaking cheese burger like it's some breaking news, is so ridiculous. Guess what? Millions of Americans are in this same position. They are diabetic because they are following flawed guidelines, and don't understand why their diet is failing them. This is the system we live in. It is broken, and as long as it is broken, people will suffer. End of story. Paula Dean just happens to have a television show, so she gets to try and make a profit off this. Everyone else just has to stay at home and shell out money for meds. It's crazy.

Hack Paula Dean has diabetes and it’s the butters fault! Really??

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