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How can an insulin resistant diet differ from a diabetic diet?

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A diet to: Reduce Insulin resistance needs to restrict calories to below what you burn up with activity. That's basically a diet for someone with Insulin resistance, prediabetes or diabetes, but there may be more specifics needed as you go further, due to blood pressure, lipids, kidney disease, etc.

Answered 6/25/2014

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I'm type 2 diabetes, I'm on 850mg metformin, I only just stopped glucomed, because I'm 5w pregnant. I'm following the diet plan and my sugar levels starting going up to 10. What should I do. Should I go onto insulin?

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