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Any diabetic should know the fruits don't necessarily have to be dried. Here's a list for you of frutis to avoid: Some examples of high-GI fruits (and their GI scores) include: Mango (60) Banana, ripe (62) Dried cranberries (64) Pineapple (66) Raisins (66) Watermelon (76) --https://www.goodrx.com/conditions/diabetes/best-and-worst-fruit-for-diabetics You're welcome. Yep, green veggies have always been included in low carb. Here's a chart for you to increase your awareness of what "whole foods" are more likely to cause spikes. One advantage of low carb is that you start eating less, because you aren't hungry from insulin drops. Large bowls of rice and all the other starches are no longer desired, or sweet fruits.

Interesting, but fails to dispel the common myth it purports to dispel. Pattaya R&R was relaxing at a beach and going fishing. Oh, there was a bar and restaurant. :) The sex scene R&R was in Bangkok and the developed locations mentioned as destinations towards the end of the vid. U-Tapao had its own sanctioned scene at Newland, even further away from Pattaya, not mentioned by the vid to falsely imply it was at Pattaya. Oh, here's a Newland bar whose purpose is obvious: Still waiting for you to name of the oldest bar still in existence, since you claim TQ isn't. What's the delay? Perhaps you've fallen under Dan's influence.

The claim is that it's the oldest bar still in existence. If that's not accurate, then the onus is on you to name the other bar that holds the record. While we hear your claim sometimes, we never get the name. Why's that? Of course it wasn't the first bar. Amusingly, the owners first had a little bar over on Soi Post Office and people would ask why they had chosen a location so far away, practically out of town. :) But the Dan Cheesman claims are the usual fiction. It's embarrassing. Why isn't he banned like other promulgators of misinformation? Oh, wait . . . .

High carb vegan, though fat included of course. Your post about insulin resistance according to Jennifer C. Lovejoy has already been laughed at. Try to remember.

Can be. Depends on the policy.

If you're really interested in researching that, GIYF. You can find some good info in the wiki/FAQ sections of https://old.reddit.com/r/lowcarb and https://old.reddit.com/r/keto/. You can also read testimonials there. Low carb has won a great deal of reluctant acceptance esp. w/ regard to treatment of diabetes. However, it was bitterly attacked from the beginning of its popularity in the early 70s owing to Dr. Atkins' diet book. It threatened the established financial interests, academic reputations, and conventional medicine. And it still does. The latest attack vector is from the "whole foods" promotion. "Whole foods" has been around for less than a decade. Ironically, low carb promoted whole foods long before whole foods did, except "whole foods" tends to define itself, arbitrarily, as plant based. It's hard to make money off something so simple as low carb. If people adopted it, the obesity epidemic would be over. Then what about the food, medical, pharmaceutical, and fitness industries? Most of our posters here wish to ensure these industries are viable and doctors enjoy a very good living. Our resident MuscleMag would get rabid at the mention of Dr. Jason Fung. Evidently he was terrified that Fung was going to snatch his bowl of morning muesli from him--between bites. So nowadays health, diet, and fitness sites on the 'net mostly dislike low carb and lack credibility. The rise of rabid veganism, PETA, climate fascism, and man buns certainly helped.

Low carb leads to the same result, according to the Roy Taylor model, as weight similarly lost. The danger of regaining the fat may be eliminated as glucose levels are more assured of remaining even. A plant-based diet can encompass higher glycemic carbs and those can in fact cause glucose spikes. My favorite vegan:

Southern Coffee on Soi 6. Enjoy the views and doings at the bars across the soi.

Oh, is the poster rich? But I wouldn't, though I could afford it now if I wished. If I asked myself, I'd just conclude Self-reliance all the way. It's in the gonads, I suppose.

Convenient for easy garroting. Kills two birds with one stone, so to speak.

Not necessarily. Dr. Roy Taylor, who has high cred here and elsewhere, says Primary care nurses or dietitians worked with patients in the intervention group, and 36% (53/149) achieved remission for two years. . . . A two year prospective study of a low calorie diet and advice to walk daily in a young South Asian population with recent onset type 2 diabetes found 75% remission at three months and 69% at two years. --https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n1449 And the problem for the carb-addicted with diabetes, or overweight, is to find a diet they can maintain. Carbs to the carb addicted is like whiskey to alcoholics. We have a resident diabetic here in that situation. Can't lay off the carbs, so chooses to stay overweight and medicate. Now he's expressed worry about paying for the meds later on. :) Posts pics of desserts here, but without his meds beside them. Low carb offers a way out of carb addiction by helping control insulin levels and therefore hunger. Hunger drives people off their diets . . . . As Dr Elie Jarrouge tweeted recently,

Important to you, but irrelevant. 21-year-old "study" by some hack nutritionist, Jennifer C. Lovejoy, employed at the Women's Nutrition Research Program, Louisiana State University. I can imagine the funding of that program. Repeats debunked party line about saturated fats. And you haven't read the entire article, just googled up a headline and abstract. LOL. Blind leading the blind. Anyway, as I've noted earlier, it makes sense that if you eat more fats along with your carbs, then that means more calories your insulin has to deal with after the carb glucose spike. To oversimplify, after the carbs have been used or deposited in your fat cells, the fat and protein will be next. And most people eating excessive amounts of carbs will also eat more fats. Eventually the overload will lead to insulin resistance and all the rest. Yawn.

Wait! Wait! We ALL know this is just another insurance scam! Where are our usual cynics and skeptics?

No, merely a common tourist fantasy. Possible to form relationships, of course. Managers have been known to take a girl out of the bar and give her another job as personal girlfriend.

People often confuse low carb and keto because they don't really know anything about them. Very different. Keto makes a good target, so we enjoy targeting it here. I don't know of any posters here who've ever tried it. I haven't. I know about it of course but have not much interest in it. I do suggest that anyone who's failed on other diets give low carb a try. Despite the information blackout about low carb (industry-packed Committee for the 2020 U.S. Dietary Guidelines refused to seat any low carb expert), and all the noise generated by low carb haters, it's well-established, pretty popular, and far more people than you might think report success with it. It's worked well for me. Long term. That part does. :)

And as I noted, if it works for you, good. Others, such as the patients treated by the docs of Low Carb Down Under, don't follow your recommendations but also enjoy great success. Your guru, Dr. Roy Taylor, is pretty much diet-agnostic. My dad had severe diabetes for at least 40 years, so I'm quite familiar with the disease. But the food industry determines a lot of the science, paying for favorable research through various channels, often secretly, including the government. Scientific studies are rife with conflicts of interest. You can get an overview in Denise Minger's Death by Foo\d Pyramid: How Shoddy Science, Sketchy Politics and Shady Special Interests Have Ruined Our Health. The game continues right up to today. 95% of the members on the expert committee for the 2020 U.S. Dietary Guidelines had conflicts of interest with the food or pharmaceutical industries. Details on these ties, with individual company names and links for each committee member, are now available. --New Conflicts of Interest Data on US Dietary Guidelines Committee We had one of the best examples in history recently with all the corruption surrounding the COVID disaster--which needn't have been a disaster at all. Common sense SHOULD tell you, as a diabetic, to leave out the "balanced" high glycemic whole foods. And it should tell you to substitute high nutritional foods, including veggie carbs, for the low nutritional foods you think you need for "balance": But it doesn't. :) No, and no.

And the agent provided you with a lighter wallet.

He's talking about visceral fat--specifically fatty liver and pancreas--not a diet high in fat. One needn't be insulin resistant for it to start. Yup. Has fat, but the fat in junk food doesn't specifically cause the problem. You're all confused. High triglycerides are a symptom of metabolic disorder. It can have multiple causes. Insulin resistance and its effects are at the heart of most metabolic disorders. Carbs are the worst for encouraging insulin to store its calories as fat, including--in the liver and pancreas. If that slippery principle works for you, as verified by healthy numbers from a lab. "Balanced" is fundamentally determined by the interests of the food industry, which has deemed that useless (high glycemic, low nutrition) carbs must be part of the definition. "Whole" foods needn't be plant-based. And people have very different definitions of moderation. “A Little Bite Won’t Hurt”: The Failure of Moderation. Finally, the body responds quite differently to different sources of calories, so in that sense calories aren't all "equal." Perhaps there are other ways to do well.

I used my Thai credit card last month for a Shopee payment.

"Sadly" is a gratuitous subjective value judgment. "Because" is a non-sequitur: not everyone assumes, only those with particular attitudes. Lots of those here, of course. Nor does previous self-employment as a prostitute mean she is a prostitute now. Again, mongers will assume that all Thai women are prostitutes anyway, or indeed ALL women. "Pay one way or the other" is one of the ANF Poster Sacred Truths. "They" have no idea how an individual Thai wife regards her "bloke" of a husband. Bigoted, stereotypical speculation. Perhaps the bloke doesn't see the wife as a real wife either but a paid employee. Who knows? No. The stigma, if any, comes from the idiots who merely observe them and then pass ignorant judgment for self-satisfying reasons. The thread has inevitably degenerated into posters talking about their sex lives and should be closed IMO.

Obviously the connection is that the movies show that a super intelligent species of aliens would never in a million years consider coming to Earth, and gave the idea to some of our posters, who dutifully repeated it here. :)

Anyone can get slim on any supposed diet. Our resident MuscleMag used to reference the Twinkie diet, which he understood only superficially. And if you have a huge financial stake in restricting your calories enough for the necessary appearance? Hmm. Besides, you're still hung up on the misconception that slim confers immunity from diabetes. You've been informed that isn't the case, but you need to believe it, I guess. Yes, in the brain. Early dementia. Oh, you don't know anything about low carb keto types.

next you'll be telling him to watch that quack john mcdougall on youtube

And in fact this was nonsense and simply part of a fantasy to support an overall superior attitude on your part, perhaps analogous to Brits who find that they alone believe they are superior. Not that they care; if you know, you know. Chagrin must arise sometimes from the intellectual heirs of Isaac Newton, John Stuart Mills, Bertrand Russell, Alan Turing, etc. to be outright banned from countries who know them well, From Barcelona to Malia: how Brits on holiday have made themselves unwelcome But in Thailand so much disappointment arises when expected servility from their natural inferiors isn't forthcoming. Hence the need to reaffirm superiority, not to mention the constant whinging.

No, merely a myth perpetuated in tourist guides and by ignorant forum posters. Bangkok was for R&R. U-Tapao had its own girlie bar area nearby called Newland. Nothing in Pattaya interesting except as place to relax and fish for few days. I personally know a bomber pilot who was based at U-Tapao who confirmed exactly that. Been discussed many times on the forum. Pattaya grew after the GI's had long gone. Germans and Ozzies in the 70s transformed it. Really took off about 78 from the offshore oil worker business.