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Can a healthy diet bring down and control high cholesterol?

 

Thanks DrDaliah, I try to start every day off with oatmeal(steel cut), and fruit for sweetness.
I'm having problems with a gluten intolerance, but its mild and only acts up with bread or pastas.
The cholesterol is my main target right now.
Im a dairy and cheese freak, and love bread..... so, I try to do non fat dairy or atleast low fat, but I still have to have it.

thanks for your help, and welcome to the forum.

 

hey i just started on insulin in december after a quite serious bout with dka .....guess my endo and doc think i was either just a type one honeymooning or a type 1.5 from the beginning ......point being i am 6 2 and now 230 lbs was 138 when i was in icu in december .....working on losing a few pounds right now but it seems when i restrict carbs my bg levels go up a little more than i would like and when i walk or run more than five miles or so i have to treat impending lows which seems couterproductive to the exercise i usually back off my insulin b4 any exercise but do you have any suggestions as i have to keep my sugar levels higher above 100 to keep dot happy kinda makes the whole scenerio complicated

 

I took NPH but then they changed me to Lantus which is a once daily.

 

no i am on levimer and novalog a1c was 15 plus in dec and 7.7 in mar and june was a 7,0 .....just upped my levimer from 20 twice a day to 21 and my 0novalog is running at a 4 to 1 ratio but was using a little less almost a 3 to 1 to keep my numbers up while driving had my fasting at 80 to 120 but the exemption requires you to keep it over 100 if i read it right .....so i changed my target to 180 two hours after meals instead of the 120 to 140 i was hitting at home but still hoping if i up my basal it will make it easier to go back on a low carb diet and drop the growing stomach .....and driving at night some nights makes it a whole new adventure with insulin control ....hence the split ....and the 15 a1c was with maxed out victoza metformin and actos .....and a vegan low carb diet ....go figure i really didn;t want 8 months off while i went through the exemption process but the pancreas had other plans

 

actually i am off all meds except insulin ....my c peptide came in at almost a zero ....doc endo and educator slash nutritionist all are in agreement that insulin is the way to go since the meds had no effect whatsover ....but that dawn phenomenon drives me nuts not on a vegan diet now but was considering going back on it or at least a low carb deal .....by the way am one of the uninsured masses ....but managed to get the icu bill forgiven by the evil catholic hospital even though a five day icu bill only came to 10000 which i though was a bargain ....and the evil pharmacutical company is sending me the insulin for free for the last year (which i will have to start paying for againn since i am working again ) and the doctor/clinic i am working with has me on a sliding scale but they are partially funded by the feds .....let us not forget the evil coporation ie walmart that has somehow found a way to sell test strips for 9 dollars for 50 instead of the 60 dollars that all the name brand strips sell for .....
so glad obamacare is going to save me from all these evil groups ....by the way love your show