Concerned about Mom's pre-diabetic diet via Nutrit

[smfeet2001]

Nutritionist.

I am so FLOORED by what her recommendations are.

Carbs~ 15 points but NEVER explained to her about simple and complex. I told her she can have complex carbs but not simple.

Meat~ avoid beef or red meat and load up on chicken and fish. Her reasoning is red meat raises cholesterol and weight levels. (blah!!)

Avoid BUTTER and go with Margerine. I told mom under no certain terms is she to eat margarine. I told her why. She said ok.

She also told her to use Splenda, Equal or Sweet n Low. I told mom she is better off getting sucanat and use it in her coffee and use regular sugar in her tea instead of that fake stuff. I told her they are very harmful to you.

I am very very upset over this. I told mom that nutritionist are about 10 years behind research that is coming out today.

I told her that I have lost weight by eating more foods with saturated fats (animal fats). She is floored by that. I told her that more people are gaining weight on low fat diet than those that are eating a diet that is via a Maker's Diet or NT diet. She is not getting it really. She eats way too many sweets. I told her that is what is making her pre-diabetic not the butter or the meat.

Oh she is also told eggs are very bad for you. She is only allowed 2 eggs a week if she has to have them. I told NOT TRUE. I told her if she gets my eggs she can eat them every day (we have brown egg layers which are both free range eaters and feed eaters). She said but it causes high cholesterol. I said no they just came out and said it doesn't actually. It raises the GOOD cholesteral and lowers the bad.

HELP HELP guys!!! What is going on here? Why is she being put on a diet that will increase her risk of heart disease because of the high trans fat? According to the chart she is given she is on a high trans fat diet.

HELP

HOlly

[Mom2boys]

I'm not at all surprised by the advice. It doesn't seem that nutritionists have any more of a clue than Dr's do.

okay on the Carbs

Ack on the meat. Tell her to eat what she wants meat wise.

Good advice on the butter

No sucanat. Tell her to go to the health food store and buy a product called xylitol. It is a natural sugar made from birch tree bark and corn husks. It is expensive, but if she only uses it in her coffee, she'll be fine.

she can eat your free range eggs, but store bought eggs do cause high cholesterol. It's because the hormones that the chickens are given cause them to lay more and more lessening the natural lecithin in the eggs causing high cholesterol (lecithin lowers cholesterol. Isn't that cool that God had an answer for eggs?)

[smfeet2001]

Do you recommend anything else? She is constantly drinking diet sodas and eating sugary foods (Little Debbie Snacks and other snacks that are high in Trans Fat). I also told her to read the labels. Just because something is claiming fat free doesn't mean it is fat free. I told her to read the labels. Of course she doesn't listen to me but yet wants me to read her paperwork and let her know what I think.

TIA
HOlly

[Mom2boys]

Maybe encouraging her to make her own snacks. High fiber muffins and home made cookies with good sugars are much better than the nutritionaly devoid Little Debbies. It sounds like she has a sugar addiction.

Also, most diabetics in my experience have candidas. Bottom line is that SHE is going to have to decide to change . It's really a matter of life and death.