Is It Safe for Diabetics to Eat Fruit? – E13

Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience

Mastering Diabetes

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 6 March 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Welcome to the Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience! Fruit for diabetes is very polarizing topic. There are many people who say that people living with diabetes should not eat any fruit at all! Then you have people like us saying that fruit is actually the best food for people living with diabetes! In this podcast Dr. Khambatta reviews some peer reviewed evidence that supports the consumption of fruit and high carbohydrate foods in general. To sign up for the Mastering Diabetes Program, please visit http://www.masteringdiabetes.org/coaching/. Make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss future episodes! Please review the Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher to ensure that the Mastering Diabetes message reaches as many people living with diabetes as possible. Thanks for listening.

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0:00.0	Now, the rice fruit diet was Dr. Kempner's attempt at creating a no-salt, no cholesterol
0:06.0	diet that's practically pure carbohydrates.
0:09.2	And what he found was that by feeding his patients this diet, he could reverse four
0:13.0	conditions.
0:14.0	Number one, malignant hypertension, which was thought to be incurable at the time.
0:18.6	Number two, heart disease.
0:20.5	Number three, diabetic retinopathy and number four, kidney disease.
0:26.0	Now, let's think about this first second because it doesn't fully make sense.
0:29.7	Conventional diabetes wisdom tells you that eating foods that are high in carbohydrate
0:33.0	will exacerbate diabetes altogether.
0:35.2	They will increase your blood glucose, they will increase your
0:38.3	insulin requirements, and they will increase your oral medication requirements. If this was true,
0:43.6	then Dr. Kempner's rice fruit diet should have resulted in a metabolic disaster for his patients.
0:49.8	But why didn't that happen? Well, it didn't happen for one simple reason, because carbohydrates
0:54.0	are not the enemy. F Because carbohydrates are not the enemy.
0:55.3	Fruits are not the enemy.
0:56.6	They never have been, they never will be.
0:58.5	Welcome to the Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience,
1:12.6	where we teach you how to sit in the driver's seat of your diabetes health for the rest of your life.
1:18.6	We'll teach you how to reverse insulin resistance, achieve your ideal body weight, gain energy,
1:23.6	and get your best A1C following more than 85 years of evidence-based research in the
1:29.4	mastering diabetes program.
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