How to Make Food Your Medicine
What you’ll learn in this module:
- Myths and lies about a “healthy” diet that have been keeping us sick
- What is in food and how this impacts your diabetes
- What to eat, how much, and how often in a way that reverses diabetes
- How to allow treats if you want them
- First, Forget Everything
- What Is In Food?
- How To Know What Is In Your Food
- How Much Should I Eat?
- How Often Should I Eat?
- How To Eat To Your Meter
- Exceptions
- Myth #1: Diabetes is caused by obesity, which is a disease of too many calories.
- Myth #2: Dietary fat is bad. Fat makes us fat. Fat causes heart disease.
- Myth #3: You have to eat some carbs to survive.
- Myth #4: Fasting is just calorie restriction. Fasting is starving.
- Myth #5: You need to eat breakfast, and you need to eat 5-6 small meals per day.
- Myth #6: Keto is dangerous or unhealthy.
- Myth #7: Low carb diets are not sustainable.
- Why is dietary advice from doctors and dieticians so wrong and destructive?
- Food groups
- Impact of food groups on blood glucose and insulin
- Comparison of the impact of 5 different diets on the A1c in type 2 diabetes
- How low is low carb?
- What to eat and what to avoid
- How to read nutrition labels
- Examples of free downloadable apps and the advantages of these
- Google as a resource
- DietDoctor.com visual guides
- Identifying the physical sensation of hunger
- Differentiating true physical hunger from mind hunger
- Hormonal imbalances that increase hunger signals
- How to balance hunger hormones
- Using the hunger scale
- Intermittent fasting as a tool
- Why fasting is the most powerful tool to lower insulin levels
- What happens in the body when you stop eating
- How to start using fasting as a tool
- How to take it up a notch
- Thinking about longer fasts (>24 hrs, various protocols)
- An empowering technique that teaches you about your body
- What is continuous glucose monitoring?
- Why allowing exceptions to your normal food plan is a skill
- Advantages of allowing exceptions to your food plan
- How to allow exceptions
- First, Forget Everything
- What Is In Food?
- How To Know What Is In Your Food
- How Much Should I Eat?
- How Often Should I Eat?
- How To Eat To Your Meter
- Exceptions
- Myth #1: Diabetes is caused by obesity, which is a disease of too many calories.
- Myth #2: Dietary fat is bad. Fat makes us fat. Fat causes heart disease.
- Myth #3: You have to eat some carbs to survive.
- Myth #4: Fasting is just calorie restriction. Fasting is starving.
- Myth #5: You need to eat breakfast, and you need to eat 5-6 small meals per day.
- Myth #6: Keto is dangerous or unhealthy.
- Myth #7: Low carb diets are not sustainable.
- Why is dietary advice from doctors and dieticians so wrong and destructive?
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- Food groups
- Impact of food groups on blood glucose and insulin
- Comparison of the impact of 5 different diets on the A1c in type 2 diabetes
- How low is low carb?
- What to eat and what to avoid
- How to read nutrition labels
- Examples of free downloadable apps and the advantages of these
- Google as a resource
- DietDoctor.com visual guides
- Identifying the physical sensation of hunger
- Differentiating true physical hunger from mind hunger
- Hormonal imbalances that increase hunger signals
- How to balance hunger hormones
- Using the hunger scale
- Intermittent fasting as a tool
- Why fasting is the most powerful tool to lower insulin levels
- What happens in the body when you stop eating
- How to start using fasting as a tool
- How to take it up a notch
- Thinking about longer fasts (>24 hrs, various protocols)
- An empowering technique that teaches you about your body
- What is continuous glucose monitoring?
- Why allowing exceptions to your normal food plan is a skill
- Advantages of allowing exceptions to your food plan
- How to allow exceptions
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