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It depends, especially with the insurance coverage a patient has. These days in order to order tests, your doctor may need clearance from your insurance company. Many people aren't aware that doctors are on the phone now with insurance carriers trying to order testing and labs for patients and getting stonewalled by insurance.
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A high-carb diet results in hyperinsulinemia, leading to insulin resistance, and the pancreas spirals up production to try to keep up, leading to more insulin resistance, with type 2 diabetes as the end result. This leads to obesity, and also causes the liver to produce a larger number of LDL particles, in particular, small LDL particles. Witness the obesity epidemic (and concomitant rise in deaths from heart disease--the single largest killer) in the United States following the craptastic advice of the FDA with its "food pyramid," advocating a diet comprised of 70% carbohydrate, 20% protein, and 10% fat. In the 1970s, when I was a child, fat people were rare, and in particular, fat kids in school were rare. Now it's flipped, and skinny kids and skinny adults are rare, whilst fat is the norm--so much so that "fat Americans" are the joke of the world.
The intestinal wall is permeable only to unesterified cholesterol. 80% of dietary cholesterol is esterified, and passes right on through and out your colon. Dietary cholesterol is not a problem. Dietary fat is not a problem. Dietary protein is not a problem. Dietary carbohydrate--particularly in the form of starches and sugars--is a HUGE problem.
There's a lengthy treatise, in lay terms, at Dr. Peter Attia's website, complete with citations to the literature if you don't believe him.
https://peterattiamd.com/the-straight-dope-on-cholesterol-part-i/
First of all there is no FDA "food pyramid". There's only a food pyramid published by the WHO and FAO, and one by the USDA. Actually it seems all your "facts" are wrong. The pyramids suggest "foods", not "carbs" and "fats". And the suggested numbers are carbs 55–75%, total fat 15–30%, and protein 10–15%.
Please also elaborate on how a plant based high carb diet is "the enemy" too wildlife animals, farmed animals, environmental pollution, deforestation, ocean dead zones due to overfishing, etc.
Please also look up how many farmed animals are grown in your country, how much food they need and how much waste they produce. In my country there's a bit more than 8 million people and more than 20 million farm animals (my gov needs to subsidize the import of MASSIVE amounts of soy and corn to feed them). They produce waste like nothing else in our country. And people are dying left and right from food related diseases (with less than 1% of the population on a plant based diet).
Not different from what I claimed, so no, my facts aren't wrong, your snarky stupidity to the contrary notwithstanding.
I already did.
No. Peddle your zealotry somewhere else.
Enjoy your type 2 diabetes. You're certain to get it if you stay on a high-carb diet.
You claimed there was an FDA food pyramid, and that it suggested more proteins than fats. I have never seen an agency suggest more proteins than fats.
Who’s the zealous one here? That’s not how type 2 diabetes actually works.
Pick nits. This was forty years ago. The main point is that they advocated a carb-heavy diet, which was EXACTLY the wrong thing.
That's EXACTLY how type 2 diabetes works.