Diabetes

[Curt]

342 - What scientists discovered about french fries and diabetes
Science Daily August 11, 2025 Source: BMJ Group
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250811104201.htm

French fries may be more than just a guilty pleasure—they could raise your risk of type 2 diabetes by 20% if eaten three times a week, while the same amount of boiled, baked, or mashed potatoes doesn’t appear to have the same effect.
 Eating three servings of French fries a week is associated with a 20% increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, but eating similar amounts of potatoes cooked in other ways -- boiled, baked or mashed -- does not substantially increase the risk, finds a study published by The BMJ on August 6.
 Potatoes contain several nutrients including fiber, vitamin C, and magnesium, but they also have a high starch content and therefore a high glycemic index, so have been linked to a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
 But neither the preparation method for potatoes nor specific foods that potatoes would replace have been considered, both of which are key to evaluating the overall health impact of potatoes.
 Their findings are based on more than 205,000 health professionals from three large US studies carried out between 1984 and 2021. Participants were free of diabetes, heart disease or cancer and completed detailed food questionnaires every four years.

 During almost 40 years of follow up, 22,299 people were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

 After adjusting for lifestyle and dietary factors related to diabetes risk, the researchers found that for every three weekly servings of total potato, the rate of type 2 diabetes increased by 5% and for every three weekly servings of French fries, the rate increased by 20%. However, similar intake of baked, boiled, or mashed potatoes was not associated with a significantly increased riskReplacing three weekly servings of total potato with whole grains lowered the type 2 diabetes rate by 8%. Substituting baked, boiled, or mashed potatoes with whole grains lowered the rate by 4%, and replacing French fries lowered the rate by 19%.

In contrast, replacing total potatoes or baked, boiled, or mashed potatoes with white rice was associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes.

[rahab]

Makes it hard to eat healthy when going out to eat.

[JimB]

Interesting because a lot of Drs and dietitians will steer you away from starchy foods such as potatoes. Even baked. However, there is a now deceased Dr famous for his "starch solution" in helping people get rid of their diabetes.

[rahab]

Yes.

We try to get the non gmo and organic if possible for home.
At a restaurant we get a dry baked potato or steamed shredded potato on the grill.  I bring my own spices to add to it to make it palatable. 
Get some strange looks sometimes! 

[Richard Myers]

An interesting result happened last year when a clinical trial for type 2 diabetics was halted because of increased deaths. Intensively targeting blood sugar to near-normal levels in adults with type 2 diabetes at especially high risk for heart attack and stroke does not significantly reduce the risk of major cardiovascular events, such as fatal or nonfatal heart attacks or stroke, but increases risk of death, compared to standard treatment according to researchers from the ACCORD (Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes) clinical trial being done by NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.  source  (Sadly, the NIH which is the source of study has removed the study)  https://public.nhlbi.nih.gov/newsroom/home/GetPressRelease.aspx?id=2573

This clinical trial utilized traditional treatment involving medication, insulin, and diet. Of course the diet was the traditional ADA diet recommendations.   It is very sad that so many suffer and die when it is not necessary. God's original diet reverses type 2 diabetes  in most patients when combined with exercise and the other God given remedies.

 

[rahab]

Truth is never old !

[RickH]

335 - Weekend Exercise Linked to Lower Mortality in Adults With Diabetes

Medscape Mia Sims July 24, 2025

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/weekend-exercise-linked-lower-mortality-adults-diabetes-2025a1000jlj?ecd=wnl_tp10_daily_250725_MSCPEDIT_etid7594458&uac=305958HN&impID=7594458

Researchers analyzed data from the National Health Interview Survey on 51,650 adults with self-reported diabetes for a 21-year period beginning in 1997, tracking deaths through the end of 2019. Patients were divided into four physical activity groups:

1 - inactive (no moderate-to-vigorous physical activity [MVPA]),
2 - insufficiently active (MVPA < 150 min/wk),
3 - weekend warrior (MVPA ≥ 150 min/wk in 1-2 sessions),
4 - and regularly active (MVPA ≥ 150 min/wk in ≥ 3 sessions).

Results:
Adults with diabetes who are physically active on weekends or who exercise regularly have a 21% and 17% lower risk for all-cause mortality, respectively, than people who are inactive.

These benefits are mainly due to fewer deaths from heart-related issues, with ‘weekend warriors’ and regularly active participants showing 33% and 19% lower risks, respectively.

[Note: any amount of physical activity helps, weekend or weekday, the more activity the greater the benefit]

The problem is, back in the day you worked in the office or business for 8-10 hours with not much chance to do much exercise. The real issue is when 'fast food' came along and if you look during WWII for the recruits the average weight was 160 or so pounds, take a look after all the fast food restaurants came about,  not many down at that average and a boom in diabetes..

https://diabetesjournals.org/diabetes/article/51/12/3353/34264/The-Rise-of-Childhood-Type-1-Diabetes-in-the-20th

[Richard Myers]

Amen! High fat and  high sugar diet is a killer.   Fat blocks the work of insulin and then high sugar in the blood injures the organs.

[RickH]

Hi,<P>I am posting a testimony on Diabetes published in the newsletter of M.E.E.T. Ministry of Huntingdon Tennessee. The Missionary Education & Evangelism Training Ministry is a self supporting ministry doing health evangelism worldwide based on the SOP principles we teach here on TRO. They have  a facility similar in approach to Uchee Pines but on a much smaller scale. God has many light houses.<P>GOD'S PLAN is an acronym for :
Godly trust, Open Air, Daily Exercise, Sunshine, Proper rest, Lots of water, Always temperate and Nutrition.<P>For D... B...., a senior citizen from Chicargo Illinois suffered from Type II Diabetes. Every day she had to take 100 mg of insulin and 525 mg of Glucophage. Not only did she have diabetes, but she was also plagued with high blood pressure, cataracts, over weight and couldn't walk across the room.<P>Many times her brother tried to share with her GOD'S PLAN.
Finally, after so much suffering, the insistence of her brother and pure desperation, she came to MEET Ministry to try GOD'S PLAN.
What results! After one week of following GOD'S PLAN she was off all Glucophage. After that her blood pressure came down. When she had left (3 week program), she had lost weight, was off insulin, walking a mile a dayand had a very pleased brother. To God be the glory!<P>I hope this is an encouragement to those in illness.

Its not so easy as one would think. I gave up my French Fries, Tres Leches, and anything with sugar, flavor, or taste and began looking at Broccoli, Lettuce, Tomatoes, and Lentils etc... Took a while but began to slowly incorporate them in my diet with my staple Latin diet of rice and beans. I lost nearly one third of my body weight, 230 down to 170, so added some of my 'comfort foods' back in to stabilize such as Potatoes and Pasta and Loma Linda. Well, that stopped it, I am slowly rising back up, so trying to eat just one meal a day, but still going up as my body seems to be using every ounce to squeeze nutrition. It caused my body to almost shut down, my iron and some of the vitamin levels went to zero and I became as you can imagine technically 'anemic' and was constipated as those bodily functions stopped working.

I went to the doctor but as usual I looked as fit as a fiddle, but the labs showed how bad I was. My doctor hesitated to give me anything until I told her shots of B12 was in my families history, and she gave me a prescription and I learned to eat spinach and dates, etc for iron. After much prayer and daily exercise, I am balanced now, but even a little bit of flavor from salt or sugar or worse 'substitutes', send my levels off the charts. So I have learned to 'hate food', and eat with a 'growl on my face', and forget about three squares a day... Its not so easy and the strokes and heart attack didnt help....

[rahab]

It is a struggle staying well and finding what works for you.
I eat very simple.

A lot of bread.  Ancient grains.  I make my own bread as well.  Spelt and einkorn.  Potatoes with herbs on them.  Beans with herbs and fresh lime juice for flavor and to aid digestion.  Brown rice.  Lots of greens from the garden mixed with avocado and spread on toast.  It’s the only fat I can tolerate it seems and I don’t do a lot.  A mix of raw fruit with tofu as a morning pudding.  Apple for a snack.
Pretty boring but I have grown used to it and it feels good being able to work hard for the Lord daily.

And I do take supplements such as liposomal vitamin D and C on empty stomach each morning.  Nattokinase on empty stomach too to clear out arteries and keep my blood pressure down naturally.
64 oz of water daily sipping constantly between meals.

[RickH]

It is a struggle staying well and finding what works for you.
I eat very simple.

A lot of bread.  Ancient grains.  I make my own bread as well.  Spelt and einkorn.  Potatoes with herbs on them.  Beans with herbs and fresh lime juice for flavor and to aid digestion.  Brown rice.  Lots of greens from the garden mixed with avocado and spread on toast.  It’s the only fat I can tolerate it seems and I don’t do a lot.  A mix of raw fruit with tofu as a morning pudding.  Apple for a snack.
Pretty boring but I have grown used to it and it feels good being able to work hard for the Lord daily.

And I do take supplements such as liposomal vitamin D and C on empty stomach each morning.  Nattokinase on empty stomach too to clear out arteries and keep my blood pressure down naturally.
64 oz of water daily sipping constantly between meals.

Well, I wouldnt drink water as it tastes strange, my medicines it seems, so you can image why my system shut down and living on grains and vegetables and forcing sparkling water down to cover the taste, but I think the damage is already done. God will decide......

[rahab]

Oh I hope not!  God gave us an immune system and if we treat our bodies right we can recover.

[Curt]

Hi RickH,  Sis Rahab has a point and God also has an answer for us. The Creator of our bodies woulkd not make the effort to give His people a message if it was not right for our time AND right for our bodies.

In preparing a presentatiion on How to Study the Bible I came across a point made by an Evangelical Christian who said.... if our opinion is in conflict with the word of God, no matter how convincing the argumant our point is to be taken as incorrect and we are to seardh deeper.
So it is to with our experiences and the health Message. If our opinion conflicts there is something wrong with our conclusion and we must once again search to determine where we are wrong.

I am curious as to why only one meal a day though. Water tasting bad in the mouth, yes look at the meds as water is not required by the body because it contains any nutrition, minerals are needed from our food and not our water and therefore is or should be bland or neutral in taste. Have you tried distilled water?

[Curt]

Back in the day there was a "STOP" time to work. Today the connected culture and working from home has no STOP time and it is not uncommon to spend even 14 hours sitting

[Richard Myers]

Yes, dear Brother Curt, it is very hard to stop doing the Lord's work when we have computers that enable us to reach out around the world to those who are seeking truth. When the personal computers first came out, I spent 18 hours a day sitting at my work station. It was hard work back then before we had the WWW (World Wide Web) and mouses with drop down selections. Putting pictures on a website took  many hours. But, we again were able to for the first time reach out around the world. It was indeed injurious and still is.

The opportunities to reach those around us has increased greatly as many who have left churches are seeking Bible truth. And many in our churches are also now waking up from a very long sleep. We are seeing two groups being formed in the church and in the world, those who love the truth and those who do not. I usually spend two three hours at a time on the computer and only once or twice a day. Prepping for sermons or meetings require more time. I am going back to health seminars and need to update my program which requires a lot of computer work. But......since sharing health information includes not sitting at a computer all  day, I am taking breaks and not sitting for many hours without a break.

Thanks for reminding us that sitting for long periods is very dangerous. Keeping on topic, we healed type 2 diabetics when our patients modified their diets to reduce fat and exercised daily.