Insulin Resistance Diet Info

How to reverse insulin resistance

IR Diet Info — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 09:18:53 +0000

How to reverse insulin resistance That’s what this whole site is about! Weight loss is only part of the picture and if you read these posts you will see that my aim is to reverse insulin resistance before it ever develops into Type 2 diabetes. It can be done with drugs but it can also [...]

Insulin Resistance Diet Info - Helping people with insulin resistance to make the best diet choices so they can lose weight and get well

How can an insulin resistance diet help me?

IR Diet Info — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 22:07:14 +0000

If you’ve just been diagnosed as insulin resistant (or even prediabetic), you may be very confused and wondering where to start. I know how you feel! I’ve been where you are now and I understand what it’s like to be faced with this. For many people this is completely new territory, but if you follow [...]

Insulin Resistance Diet Info - Helping people with insulin resistance to make the best diet choices so they can lose weight and get well

A typical Insulin Resistance Diet Menu

IR Diet Info — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:42:02 +0000

Insulin Resistance Diet Menu One of the challenges insulin resistance brings is the planning of your meals from day to day. Before I was diagnosed, my meals were very different – cereal for breakfast, sandwich for lunch, main meal at night would pretty much always include rice or pasta or potatoes. I’m sure many of [...]

Insulin Resistance Diet Info - Helping people with insulin resistance to make the best diet choices so they can lose weight and get well

The easiest Insulin Resistance breakfast!

IR Diet Info — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:41:29 +0000

The easiest Insulin Resistance Diet breakfast Those of us with insulin resistance know that we should have protein with every meal, and for many people that translates to “eggs” for breakfast. I don’t really like eggs that much (I’ll eat them if I have to but always choose something else if there’s an alternative!). If [...]

Insulin Resistance Diet Info - Helping people with insulin resistance to make the best diet choices so they can lose weight and get well

Are you eating a “healthy diet” for insulin resistance?

IR Diet Info — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:20:10 +0000

What is a healthy diet for someone with insulin resistance? Lots of people have told me that they think their diets are quite healthy – much more so than many of their friends, who may be consuming vast quantities of “junk”. Yet if you have insulin resistance, one of the most frustrating things is that [...]

Insulin Resistance Diet Info - Helping people with insulin resistance to make the best diet choices so they can lose weight and get well

What is insulin resistance?

IR Diet Info — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 14:08:24 +0000

What is insulin resistance and what can I do about it? What is insulin resistance? Insulin resistance is a stage before pre-diabetes. In short, it is a condition where you produce too much insulin. As a result, you will store fat around the abdomen (and visceral fat around the internal organs – a very dangerous situation). [...]

Insulin Resistance Diet Info - Helping people with insulin resistance to make the best diet choices so they can lose weight and get well

Low carb meals quiz

IR Diet Info — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:40:49 +0000

Low carb meals quiz Test your knowledge about carbohydrates, insulin resistance and low carb meals How much do you know about carbohydrates? If you have insulin resistance, you’ve probably read a lot about carbohydrates and what effect they have on insulin production. I thought I knew some basic truths about low carb meals, but in [...]

Insulin Resistance Diet Info - Helping people with insulin resistance to make the best diet choices so they can lose weight and get well

Carb blockers

IR Diet Info — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 12:26:11 +0000

What are carb blockers? Carb blockers (also known as starch blockers) are supplements which claim to keep your insulin levels stable by preventing the rapid absorption of starch. They are formulated to inhibit the body’s production of the starch-digesting enzyme, alpha-amylase. With less alpha-amylase, the body converts a smaller amount of starch into glucose for further [...]

Insulin Resistance Diet Info - Helping people with insulin resistance to make the best diet choices so they can lose weight and get well

What makes us insulin resistant?

IR Diet Info — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:35:12 +0000

Why am I insulin resistant? Insulin resistance is so prevalent now (various statistics I’ve seen say 1 in 4 people, sometimes as high as 1 in 3 (in the US), have insulin resistant bodies. How can it be that this is so widespread? Yes, a proportion of these people are genetically predisposed to the condition and [...]

Insulin Resistance Diet Info - Helping people with insulin resistance to make the best diet choices so they can lose weight and get well

Comparing low carb diets

IR Diet Info — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:42:50 +0000

Comparing low carb diets There seem to be a few different schools of thought when it comes to low carb diets. Once you are faced with a diagnosis of insulin resistance, or worse still, diabetes, you begin to look at suggested diets. What foods are you allowed to have? Which ones are forbidden? And when [...]

Insulin Resistance Diet Info - Helping people with insulin resistance to make the best diet choices so they can lose weight and get well