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Peggy P asked:
I’ve been eating a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet for a couple months, but have been having issues with being lethargic and tired and feel really hungry an hour after I eat. I’m pretty careful about getting enough protein, so I’m wondering if it is related to the fact that I’m a diabetic? Anyone else a diabetic and a vegetarian?
Sphere: Related ContentI’ve been eating a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet for a couple months, but have been having issues with being lethargic and tired and feel really hungry an hour after I eat. I’m pretty careful about getting enough protein, so I’m wondering if it is related to the fact that I’m a diabetic? Anyone else a diabetic and a vegetarian?
Tags: Diet Diabetic, Extra, Lacto Ovo, Protein, Vegetarian Diet
August 29th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
I’m a diabetic and registered nurse, but not a vegetarian,be very careful about the type of veggies you eat, you have to limit those that are very starchy as starch turns to sugar in the body.Things like corn, potatoes and believe it or not bananas are very high in sugar.Some sugar is necessary, natural sugar is best(from food) processed sugar is bad, hope this helps you.
August 31st, 2008 at 5:08 am
Listen to the nurse … Onyx . . .nurses always give straight no nonsense answers.
Diabetes may complicate any physical ailment that ordinarily might be “routine” for someone without diabetes. A 1:1 with a diabetic health care professional re: your symptoms and your diet seems to be in order and rather quickly.
BTW . . .all those sites that fool Krister posted are biased veggie sites. Hopefully you won’t try to diagnose yourself with them.
September 1st, 2008 at 3:04 am
No.
I know people who, when becoming a healthy vegan, their diabetes just vanished. No more insulin shots… their weight dropped to normal… the end.
Don’t listen to the nurse, or the doctors. Generally they are very highly uneducated as to nutrition and diet unless they have taken extra studies outside of which their field requires (you don’t need to study nutrition to be a doctor or a nurse).
Diabetes is big business, so if you’ve got it, they want you to keep it and put you on a diet that will maintain your illness so you keep buying their medical products etc. Diabetes is 100% due to diet. Nothing else causes it, not genetics, nothing. It’s due to poor diet.
The links that ‘krister’ has provided should do the trick. They are a group of doctors that HAVE studied nutrition and believe that food is your medicine, you are what you eat, etc. My sister has been a lifelong diabetic and everything they’ve told her over the years is total cr*p. You need to get rid of your self-created illness of diabetes.
There are many books on reversing diabetes and the best ones all (although they may not come right out and say the word) advocate a vegan diet. You must also stop consuming any sugar substitutes such as nutrisweet, equal, etc. The will trigger insulin to be produced, then guess what… no sugar… You can imagine the result. Stevia is a better sub. or malt. Malt is sweet but a complex carb. Well, you can read all about this sort of thing in the many books that are out there — I’m trying not to go on a rant here as I know a lot about the subject.
My sister never does listen to me, so after all these years — still diabetic — even more unhealthy than ever as a matter of fact. So, whole grains, whole foods, and exercise! Most doctors tell diabetics to avoid exercise — total bunk!
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