MSN: "But I Don't Eat That Much!"

Omelet wrote:
*Chris Malcolm wrote:

People vary widely in degree of insulin resistance ...

So how do you cure insulin resistance?
My guess is low carbing.

I offer two distinct definitions for cure -

1) For a symptom that requires some input for it to happen,
remove that input and symptoms disappear without taking
any medication. View the input as a poison and this view
tends to make sense. View the input as a common food
group like grains supplying starch carbs and it starts to be
problematic if you are unwilling to call grains a personal
poison. Diabetics will call this "contol by diet" rather than
"cure".

2) The damage has been reversed to the point you can
once again resist the effects of the poison if you start taking
it again. For a diabetic this might take cell transplants to
restore their ability to produce insulin. The problem with this
view of cure is if you start taking the cause again once you
are cured, eventually the law of cause and effect will ensure
that the damage happens all over again.

So yes, if you remain low carb forever there isn't any distinction
between those two means when it comes to insulin resistance.
Ah, if only I could pull that off - Carbs do trigger an addictive
behavior pattern for me that makes me need to start all over
from scratch.