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Vegan Diet for Blood Sugar Control
Objective
Does a vegan diet improve glycemic response?Description
Protein content in the diet affect may affect glycemic response. This is interesting to Type 2 diabetics as well as anyone concerned about his or her blood sugar levels. In this study, we look at whether a short-term vegan diet has an effect on glycemic response in normal and diabetic people.This is a 4 day study.
- On Day 1, track your blood glucose level and food as normal.
- On Days 2-4, replace all animal protein calories in your diet with equal calories from nuts, almonds legume or beans (do not add - bread, sugar or sweets to your diets) and measure your blood sugar levels regularly.
Before you join please read the summary to fully understand the experiment.
Inclusion Criteria
This study is open to all (diabetics and non-diabetics)Exclusion Criteria
All Diabetic Type 2 participants need to consult their physician before starting 3 Vegan days.
Before you join please read the summary to fully understand the experiment:
- Take the participant questionnaire
- On Day 1 (normal diet), make no lifestyle changes and enter your fasting glucose level using the Glucose Tracker on Genomera
- During Days 2-4 (vegan diet), replace animal protein calories with equal calories from nuts, almonds legume or beans (do not add - bread, sugar or sweets). Make sure calories are equal. You may want to write down what you eat to make sure.
- Track your fasting glucose levels each morning using Glucose Tracker
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DinaRalt The vegan people love the experiment but it is not easy to convince others to try ...even for just 3 days. I think they know (in their hearts) that it is best and afraid that they will have to become Vegans :-)
EriGentry I'm super interested in trying a vegan diet. I just have to get my glucose monitor!
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EriGentry We should definitely announce the study in Tudiabetes (good that it is centered around diabetes). I'm not sure how large the community there is. http://www.tudiabetes.org/forum/categories/583967:Category:2624/listForCategory Wego seems a bit small but it's still worth putting the message out there. http://community.wegohealth.com/group/diabetes
DinaRalt It will be nice if a journalist would write about Genomera and the new way of health research/studies
EriGentry updated the status of this study to be "In Progress."
EriGentry What type of glucose monitor do you use?
DinaRalt We are running the experiment with diabetes because it is easy to measure the sugar effect, however vegetarians have lower risk for many ailments e.g. symptomatic Diverticular Disease http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3139912/?tool=pubmed
jzempel I just saw a demo of this iPhone "nugget" last night. Pretty cool. http://j.mp/r9TSeB
DinaRalt yes very cool...there are various smart applications and I guess it will make diabetes (as well as other maladies) more smartly followed and cured. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38065/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-07-21&a=f
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DinaRalt Is it possible that Bill Clinton had heard of our study? :) http://edition.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/08/18/bill.clinton.diet.vegan/
DinaRalt Dear visitor...we are almost there with our study, we are waiting for the final instrument - the glucose tracker. If you feel like writing about yourself, it will be nice if you could let us know how you have heard about the study and what do you expect?
DinaRalt I guess you are right Greg, but I wanted to post a general title as it is healthful to all of us. People like to experiment with friends and this title might open collaborations with friends who are non-diabetic. What do you think?
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gbiggers Great study idea, Dina. We would love to help you, even with the communication and design. I might suggest changing the title to 'Veganism for Type 2 Diabetes' 'Vegan diet for glycemic control.'
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DinaRalt welcome... are you vegan? and if not, would you try 3 days of vegan diet?
drdelorenzo I am not strictly vegan, but in fact my meals contain not much of meat..
DinaRalt do you have any idea why people are so reluctant to try the 3 days of vegan diet?