How can you gain weight if you have diabetes
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If someone has diabetes and losing weight from anxiety and nervous issues how do you safely gain pounds? Sugar laden foods will affect blood sugar? All the foods to eat are low glycemic and therefore don’t pack on the pounds. What are some ways to gain without adding sugar and junk food?
It’s for a 77 yr old man that is losing muscle tone and weight this summer. Ideally to gain 20 lbs back so he has something to fall back on this winter if he gets sick.
Jack
If someone has diabetes and losing weight from anxiety and nervous issues how do you safely gain pounds? Sugar laden foods will affect blood sugar? All the foods to eat are low glycemic and therefore don’t pack on the pounds. What are some ways to gain without adding sugar and junk food?
It’s for a 77 yr old man that is losing muscle tone and weight this summer. Ideally to gain 20 lbs back so he has something to fall back on this winter if he gets sick.
Jack
April 9th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
can you clarify if he is type 1 or 2. im not sure about type 2 but i know that type 1 diabetics can eat normal food that will cause weight gain.
April 11th, 2009 at 3:26 am
Glucerna makes a nutritional supplement kind of like Ensure. It doesn’t have a huge amount of sugar, but provides some calories and fat. It sounds like he needs to visit a doctor and a nutritionist right away though! The anxiety issues need to be treated as well as his dietary needs.
April 12th, 2009 at 6:52 am
An issue also he would want to overdue it on fats as they are high in diabetes would want to the fats as long as long as they are high in calories and do not pay lot of attention to overdue.
April 14th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Insulin causes weight gain. If he isn’t on insulin, maybe he should be?
It might be that he needs a bit of injected insulins to help him.