What is the name of your blog or Web site?
Diabetic Mediterranean Diet Blog
The URL of your blog
What is the focus of your blog?
Adaptation of the healthy Mediterranean diet for people with type 2 diabetes, prediabetes, and metabolic syndrome.
What is the purpose of your blog?
As a practicing physician, I am well aware of the higher incidence of heart disease, stroke, dementia, and premature death suffered by people with type 2 diabetes. The traditional Mediterranean diet is well-known for reversing these trends.
I started the blog in April, 2009, to explore adaptation of the Mediterranean diet - typically rich in carbohydrates - for my patients with type 2 diabetes. Diabetics, of course, have difficulty handling carbohydrates. So I've had to reduce the carbohydrate load of the Mediterranean diet while (hopefully!) retaining most of the healthy components of the Mediterranean diet.
The first fruit of my labor is the very low-carb Ketogenic Mediterranean Diet, available free at the blog. More carbs can be added to the diet gradually as directed in the Diabetic Mediterranean Diet, which is also available free.
These are works in progress that will be modified as scientific knowledge is discovered. Readers are encouraged to check back periodically for updates.
-Steve Parker, M.D.
Tips and Tricks
- Learn how dramatically lower blood sugar without medications
- Learn how to lose excess weight and lower blood pressure with low-carb eating
- Learn how to increase HDL cholesterol ("good cholesterol") and lower triglycerides in the bloodstream, thereby potentially reducing the risk of future heart disease
