There is a popular misconception of T2diabetes, that it happens to fat people as they get older.
Utter bollocks.
Everyone, every single one of us, is slowly over time, becoming diabetic.
As time progresses and we get older, we all suffer from increasing insulin resistance. Or bodies become tolerant to the action of insulin on our glucose metabolism.
This is part of the natural ageing process, but it is accelerated by the bias in the modern diet towards consuming excessive amounts of carbohydrates.
Thank the Neolithic, landscape clearance and agriculture.
What did you have for breakfast? Cereal? Toast? Fruit juice? All carbs.
Protein, and especially fat, mitigate against insulin resistance, so if you have a balanced meal, it's less of a problem.
But the cheap food is carb based. And tasty. And addictive.
And what's worse, we've been conditioned into believing it's healthy.
It's not.
We need fats. And shit loads of vegetables (which are carbs + fibre, which mitigates against the action of the contained carbs on blood sugar).
Monounsaturated fats from vegetable sources are essential, but instead we are sold carb based cereal products (bread) which are then artificially fortified with the nutrients they are naturally lacking in.
LOL what a crock.
Food lacking in nutrients, so artificially fortify it?
Fuck me if we aren't lost.
I struggle with this. I still eat refined carbs, though I try not to. I have many symptoms of diabetes, though my blood sugars are still normal.
But insulin resistance can progress over years, whilst your blood sugar stays normal. By the time you are diagnosed... you get the picture.
What is a balanced diet? Keto is a over reaction to being seriously ill. It works, but it's not without it's long term consequences. I may yet have to try it.
Palaeolithic? Sounds good to me. Cultural evolution has eclipsed biological evolution: we do all sorts of shit that our bodies are not actually equipped to deal with.
I'd suggest this: eat nothing that has a list of ingredients. Eat only whole food. So no pies, pasta, bread, rice, etc. Veg and meat and seasonal fruits.
Is this linked to your mental state? Do you really have to ask the question? Of course it is. The distinction between mental and physical is created by fuck-wits. It's not related, it's the same thing. The more we try to treat ourselves based on purely mental ,or physical concerns, the more we damage ourselves.
Change what you can change. If you can't change your thoughts and feelings, then change your diet. It may not cure you, but without a realistic foundation, nothing else will cure you either.
And yes, I have problems there myself. I try and practice what I preach, but I invariably fail. It's really hard.
