In your shoes, I would recommend low carb diets -I’m partial to paleo, but whatever works. Keep in mind that if calories are to be kept constant, low carb diets are necessarily high fat diets, and this should ideally be animal or fruit fat—for example fish, coconut, olive, avocados …not milk fat or seed based oils.
(The paleo-fied version of this is simply to use fruits instead of grains for the carbs. Regardless of whether you do paleo, I don’t think it’s controversial that diabetes_II spectrum disorders benefit from cutting carbs, so you’ll likely end up with paleo-like macronutrient ratios one way or another anyhow.)
I would also up the exercise. I just had a quick look at Lesswrong’s “optimal exercise” routine—it is indeed optimized...for increasing strength and speed. However, if you need to lose weight (obesity will exacerbate your condition) you might want to add in extended periods of walking or running.
Also, technical correction: fruits are simple sugars. (Don’t let that stop you from fruits though, because it turns out that the simple/complex dichotomy turns out not to correlate particularly well with glycemic index anyway.)
That’s Hyperinsulinemia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinsulinemia
It might or might not be Diabetes-II related: http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/31/Supplement_2/S262.full
In your shoes, I would recommend low carb diets -I’m partial to paleo, but whatever works. Keep in mind that if calories are to be kept constant, low carb diets are necessarily high fat diets, and this should ideally be animal or fruit fat—for example fish, coconut, olive, avocados …not milk fat or seed based oils.
(The paleo-fied version of this is simply to use fruits instead of grains for the carbs. Regardless of whether you do paleo, I don’t think it’s controversial that diabetes_II spectrum disorders benefit from cutting carbs, so you’ll likely end up with paleo-like macronutrient ratios one way or another anyhow.)
I would also up the exercise. I just had a quick look at Lesswrong’s “optimal exercise” routine—it is indeed optimized...for increasing strength and speed. However, if you need to lose weight (obesity will exacerbate your condition) you might want to add in extended periods of walking or running.
Also, technical correction: fruits are simple sugars. (Don’t let that stop you from fruits though, because it turns out that the simple/complex dichotomy turns out not to correlate particularly well with glycemic index anyway.)