Re: Eggs and Diabetes
- From: "Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:03:45 +0100
"Jill" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I was diagnosed type 2 diabetes about six months ago (no big deal)
told that I raised colesterol.
Eggs. According to the local "diabetics and nutritionist clinic" are
to be eaten with caution. 2 or 3 per week maximum because the fats
they contain raise the bad colesterol in the blood.
My diabetics nurse in the local GPs practice says the colesertol you
eat does not affect the level in your blood. Within reason you can eat
as many as you want. Say up to eight per week if you wanted.
What do you guys think?
Not enough is known about cholesterol and different opinions are put forward
even in the same medical practice.
I have familial cholesterol problems
I was tested cos an aunt was picked up with high cholesterol [also late
diabetes] around 15 years ago
The hospital was running a trial and asked any other blood relatives to be
tested.
Both my mother and I came back high. Completely different lifestyles and
eating habits
Spouse is high (yes I know, entirely the wrong type), I'm not and our eating
habits are idential, he's more active than I am.
She went down the drug control route
He won't. Nor would I.
I did some homework and spent a year - no eggs, no dairy, no red meat.
Lots of oat bran, some garlic and a little red wine.
We both eat lots of oats, very few eggs, lots of garlic and wine. His level
goes up and down with no change in diet or activity.
To control it - Oatbran is your best buddy. Takes the cholestrol out of
your system
Makes great porridge if you add soya milk and nuke it for a short time.
add fruit and its scrummy
I hate soya milk with a passion and it too has good and bad reputations in
terms of some cancers.
I much prefer Oatly (an oat milk substitute).
Add oatbran as a thickener to every sauce you can. Its really easy.
We rarely make thickened sauces.
Avoid milk as much as you can.
Or replace it with Oatly.
Eat only really good red meat - don't waste the cholesterol on ready
meals.
Eat eggs in the forms that you most appreciate.
For me : quiche, souffle, boiled eggs and the piecederesistance double egg
and chips -- oh to die for!!!
Bleurch!
But yes, to die for in some cases :-(
Garlic is also another great anticholesterol agent as is a little red wine
More is even better :-)
Being on such a regime can be great fun. Just ditch any junk food and
realy appreciate what you eat and why -- gourmet is right.
We have NO junk food and appreciate everything we eat and drink, it's the
best in every way. But cholesterol is made in our bodies whether we eat the
'wrong' things or not. Not that it was ever heard about until relatively
recently and we still survived.
As did Eskimoes ...
Mary
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