<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> In <l03130304b1170d761a88@[203.1.72.192]>, on 02/23/98 at 10:35 PM, John Macgregor <[log in to unmask]> said: >>This has been pretty easy. >>I eat all the above, in the form of liver and kidney, chicken and fish >>(much closer to the fat profiles of our 'ancestral' meats than today's >>bred-up, grain-fed, hormone-enriched cattle), salads, nuts, eggs, >>potatoes and yams...I could go on. It took five minutes to adjust to, John, Like you, I find the celiac diet relatively easy to adjust to from the diabetic diet I finally came up with twenty years before. Basically, I discovered fresh produce --hence minimally processed, as you say. I get the majority of carbs from produce and actually eat little rice. (Except for wild rice, I just don't enjoy it.) Type 1 or Type 2? Insulin, pills, or both? What are the approximate proportions of carbohydrate, protein, and fat in your diet? For reference the standard ADA diet has been 60%, 20%, 20% for some years now. I'd guess that you're actually burning fats for energy, hence that your blood lipids have improved. Have you had them measured? Any liver tests to watch the liver? My other concern with this diet and the "lo-carb" one is the higher protein content and the burden this places on the kidney. (High protein means high osmotic pressure that may damage the delicate filtration system of the kidneys.) Kidneys are a frequent diabetic problem, after all. I've been unable to find a study yet that tests either diet in this way. Do you know of any? Finally, your diet avoids legumes, a low glycemic index food wonderful for the diabetic diet. Why? Kemp Randolph Long Island -- ----------------------------------------------------------- <[log in to unmask]> -----------------------------------------------------------