# Theories about diet for type 2 diabetes **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 21, 2023, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theories-about-diet-for-type-2-diabetes/987368 "2023-07-21T22:43:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 49
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Here is a smattering of previous threads on diabetes that contain some discussion of diet as well. Lots of info to digest (heh 🙂 ). > [@Protein and Fat and Type II Diabetes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protein-and-fat-and-type-ii-diabetes/914291): > > I think I have already told you all, I have Type 2 Diabetes. Anyway I am not planning on making any radical changes in my diet or anything, certainly not without consulting my doctor. But I was just wondering. What effect does protein and fat have on Diabetes? I know before they found a way to get insulin from animal sources, they would put people on the ketogenic diet. I don’t think it worked. But they must’ve known what they were doing. They say sugar is a bad choice when you have Type 2 Di… > [@Anyone here ever get pre-diabetes blood sugar levels?....](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-ever-get-pre-diabetes-blood-sugar-levels/828821): > > My blood sugar is now at about 105 to 106. My doctor said I was still OK, but I’m creeping up over the last two years (I was at 90 about 3 years ago). I just crossed 100 for the first time. I’m still about 20 away from diabetes (125 is the line). If you’ve gotten to pre-diabetes, were you able to push it back below 100 with just diet & stuff? I hate the thought of changing what I eat, although I guess I have no choice. I don’t want to become a diabetic. Anyone on here deal with this befor… > [@I don't understand why my blood sugar drops this way. (Diabetes question)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-understand-why-my-blood-sugar-drops-this-way-diabetes-question/788485): > > I apologise for the title, writing titles for OPs is not one of my strong suits. My inclination is to post this in GQ, but every time I post there it gets moved over here, so I will start here. If the post needs to be moved will someone please flag a mod? I am a Type II Diabetic. My sugars are under pretty tight control now, I brought my A1C down from 14 to 6.1 in less than a year. I test twice a day, first thing in the morning and two hours after dinner, and adjust my insulin accordingly. I ha… > [@What's the SD on artificial sugar sodas and "bad for diabetes?"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-sd-on-artificial-sugar-sodas-and-bad-for-diabetes/787546): > > I’ve heard this more and more these days: something about the various sugar substitutes being unhealthy, not by causing cancer or halitosis or boogie-woogie flu, but the latest knock on them, that they are counterproductive for sugar control. Back when I think “they” said that it was a psychosomatic thing (in the true sense of the word), in that the sensation of sugar/sweet made your pancreas think the real stuff was there, or something. Which I could believe as a research result somewhere, bu… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theories-about-diet-for-type-2-diabetes/987368)._