starches needed?

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My question is it reallly necessary to have the starch foods in one's diet especially if I take a
B vitamin supplement and obtain sufficient fibre from the vegies and fruit? Has anyone with a
blood sugar problem eaten this way? Thanks.

I completely got rid of hypoglycemia by eliminating starches and adding back more fat and protein.
Veggies are far more nutrient dense than starches are, and there are no nutritional deficiencies in
a starch free diet.

Susan

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I have impaired glucose tolerance with hypoglycemia and have had for years. The diet originally
given to me to follow contains a lot of starches as well as fruits and vegies for carbs. I have
never had a reduction in my hypo spells on this diet and gained a lot of fat weight even though my
body is neither an apple or pear shape, am 5'5" and 155 ibs. I want to try eliminating the starch
foods-pototoes, rice, pasta, cereal etc. and replace them with lots of low glycemic vegies, some
fruit, protein foods and some fat/oils. My question is it reallly necessary to have the starch
foods in one's diet especially if I take a B vitamin supplement and obtain sufficient fibre from
the vegies and fruit? Has anyone with a blood sugar problem eaten this way? Thanks.

margo

You are on the right track.

There is no reason at all to have any starchy foods in the diet. Any refined starchy foods will
contain near-zero amounts of useful vitamins and/or minerals.

Avoiding potatoes and rice will not lead to any deficiencies either.

Go to your library and read:

Dr. Bernstein's Revised and Updated Diabetes Solution by Richard K. Bernstein, M.D., F.A.C.E.,
F.A.C.N., C.W.S.

diabetes-normalsugars.comdiabetes-normalsugars.comOpen ↗

Good information for anyone.

TC