Type 2 Diabetes - Is This The Source of Your Diabetic Weight Gain?
Are you a Type 2 diabetic who just can't lose weight no matter how hard you try? Are you a Type 2 diabetic who feels tired all the time? Do you reach for a sweater at the first hint of a draft? Do you have dry skin, insomnia, or droopy eye lids? If the answer to two or more of these questions is "yes", then you may be suffering a side effect of a healthy plant-based diet that has too many of the wrong vegetables.
Vegetables in the cabbage family are universally assumed to be healthful.
Whether it's cabbage or cauliflower, broccoli or watercress, mustard greens or collard greens or kale, these "cole crops" are good for you.
That is, they are good for you unless you eat too many of them in their raw state.
Raw vegetables from the cabbage family contain sulfur compounds known as goitrogens.
The sulfur in goitrogens is absorbed through the colon and then enters the bloodstream.
When the sulfur compounds reach the thyroid gland, however, they lock into receptor sites the thyroid ordinarily uses to absorb iodine.
When the thyroid can't absorb iodine, it can't make the thyroid hormone.
And when there isn't enough thyroid hormone, one of the first things that will happen is the running down of the metabolism that packs on the pounds or kilograms.
There is a really simple way to treat this kind of weight gain.
You don't even have to give up your healthy vegetables.
Just eat them cooked rather than raw, or at least limit yourself to a single serving of raw vegetables from the cabbage family every day.
It is possible to overdose on cooked cabbage vegetables, too, but this would be in cases where they are about one third of the total calories.
Even if you dine on kimchi at every meal or you love your cabbage soup and black bread, it's really rare for people to have problems from cooked vegetables in the cabbage family.
One exception comes for Type 2 diabetics who are on the cabbage soup diet more than a few weeks (it is recommended the diet is only for seven days and shouldn't be adhered to any longer.
It is thought to provide a "kick-start" for a more moderate diet.
But don't be surprised to find you put the weight back on because you don't lose fat, only water).
The changes in the thyroid hormone actually take at least a full month of over-indulgence in cabbage and similar vegetables, but they can happen when people eat cabbage or related plants at each and every meal, day after day.
Vegetables in the cabbage family are universally assumed to be healthful.
Whether it's cabbage or cauliflower, broccoli or watercress, mustard greens or collard greens or kale, these "cole crops" are good for you.
That is, they are good for you unless you eat too many of them in their raw state.
Raw vegetables from the cabbage family contain sulfur compounds known as goitrogens.
The sulfur in goitrogens is absorbed through the colon and then enters the bloodstream.
When the sulfur compounds reach the thyroid gland, however, they lock into receptor sites the thyroid ordinarily uses to absorb iodine.
When the thyroid can't absorb iodine, it can't make the thyroid hormone.
And when there isn't enough thyroid hormone, one of the first things that will happen is the running down of the metabolism that packs on the pounds or kilograms.
There is a really simple way to treat this kind of weight gain.
You don't even have to give up your healthy vegetables.
Just eat them cooked rather than raw, or at least limit yourself to a single serving of raw vegetables from the cabbage family every day.
It is possible to overdose on cooked cabbage vegetables, too, but this would be in cases where they are about one third of the total calories.
Even if you dine on kimchi at every meal or you love your cabbage soup and black bread, it's really rare for people to have problems from cooked vegetables in the cabbage family.
One exception comes for Type 2 diabetics who are on the cabbage soup diet more than a few weeks (it is recommended the diet is only for seven days and shouldn't be adhered to any longer.
It is thought to provide a "kick-start" for a more moderate diet.
But don't be surprised to find you put the weight back on because you don't lose fat, only water).
The changes in the thyroid hormone actually take at least a full month of over-indulgence in cabbage and similar vegetables, but they can happen when people eat cabbage or related plants at each and every meal, day after day.