Gestational Diabetes

Yes, but 2 ounces of seeds and nuts a day are recommended. I have a program specifically designed for gestational diabetes in my book, The End of Diabetes.

You can’t have it both ways. If she has gestational diabetes it means she gained too much weight with the pregnancy. The activity of insulin is blocked by fat cells, not by baby cells, and this is being made worse by the dietician’s advice and all the frequent feedings.

I think advice from conventional nutritionists/dieticians is dangerous and in the dark ages. I can’t understand why anyone reading my books and newsletters would attempt to follow such advice.

I have detailed dietary advice and menu plans for diabetes, which she should follow.

Your wife has obviously gained too much weight with pregnancy and has not been following my dietary advice. The starting place is for her to read The End of Diabetes and follow the plan for gestational diabetes in the book precisely.

It really isn’t necessary for someone without diabetes in their family or a history of borderline or high blood sugars in the past or any symptoms of diabetes. Also, if you are not overweight, then the risk is even lower.

If the test were positive, meaning that you had gestational diabetes, then your doctor would just recommend that you eat better and not gain as much weight or even lose weight. We want you to do this regardless of these test results, which makes the test not that useful in your situation, if you successfully are eating properly as we recommend for pregnant women.

If you weigh that much and are not losing, and your glucose tolerance test is high, then you are not following the proper diet for you. Ninety percent or whatever you really are doing is not sufficient. Since this is serious, I think you should post everything you eat here and follow your routine fasting glucose and a 2-hour post prandial. I think the 100 gram test is irrelevant because your body weight and the 50 gram glucose test already determines that you are at high risk and need intervention with your diet and exercise.

Here is a sample Phase One Diabetic Reversal Diet for newly diagnosed Gestational Diabetes, however, I suggest you purchase and read my book, The End of Diabetes, immediately.

This menu includes options, do not attempt to consume all the food or dishes suggested, choose only one or two options at each meal. You can eat the same dish for more than one meal and even use as leftovers for a few days. Breakfast is only listed for those who are doing lots of exercise and hungry in the morning. If not hungry eat two meals a day. You do NOT have to eat all the food listed.

Please note that carbohydrates (even beans) are not fed with breakfast because insulin resistance is highest in mornings.

The most important advice here is to stop, do not make choices and decisions about what to eat and what not to eat. Let me make all these decisions for you.

Remember, you developed this condition based on the choices you made. In order to give this method a chance to see what it can do, you must do it exactly as prescribed, without modifications.

Just follow this plan until your blood sugars are relatively favorable. Then, once your condition is in the safe, non-diabetic range, we can advance the diet to the next phase and we can discuss.

Breakfast – (use one or both of below suggestions):

1. A green salad with lettuce, thin sliced red onion, tomatoes, and roasted red peppers with a creamy hemp seed herbal dressing made from hemp milk, seeds, and a fruit flavored vinegar, or use a roasted tomato basil dressing made from tomato paste, soaked sundried tomatoes, raw and roasted garlic, vinegar, roasted red pepper, chopped scallions, basal, cumin, and cinnamon.
2. A roasted eggplant casserole made with sliced zucchini, mushrooms, onions, tomato, garlic, and spices such as cinnamon and cumin, sprinkled with lightly toasted and chopped pumpkin seeds.

Lunch – (use two of the following):

1. A vegetable-bean soup or stew, served over or with a bowl of shredded lettuce and shredded raw spinach. The soup should be made with a low salt tomato and/or celery juice base and lots of leafy greens, leaks, zucchini, and onion.
2. Roasted tofu slices or one ounce sliced turkey with avocado, dill, and roasted garlic wrapped in raw collard green leaves.
3. Zucchini-cauliflower casserole baked with chopped onion and mung bean or other sprouts and sprinkled with nutritional yeast.
4. Or, the roasted eggplant/mushroom dish can be eaten here instead of at breakfast.
5. Spicy beans or lentils (one cup) served hot over a bed of finely shredded lettuce and cabbage.

Dinner – (include all three options below):

1. A steamed green vegetable dish made with steamed or water sautéed mushroom and onions. Steamed green vegetables (string beans, artichokes or asparagus), crushed raw walnuts and lightly toasted almonds slivers.
2. Raw vegetables, such as raw broccoli, snow peas, cauliflower, kohlrabi, cucumber, radish, peppers, tomatoes, and celery served with a humus dip or salsa dip. A half ounce of sunflower seeds mixed with a half-ounce of your nut of choice or a sunflower-mushroom burger served with lettuce, tomato, raw onion and tomato sauce, (without bread). One fruit such as kiwi or berries. 
3. One fresh fruit for dessert, or two kiwis or box of berries.

Yes, a Nutritarian diet designed for this issue is described in my book, The End of Diabetes. Not only can you reverse the diabetes, but you improve other nutritional and health parameters that protect you and your baby. Medications can also have risky side effects.