Was at the doctors earlier for my diabetes review blood test.
They have no Wi-fi, so I was keeping myself occupied by watching their information monitor.
This has made me so cross.
Waiting room diabetes recommendations š
Shinita
#3
My relative with diabetes read a book from some doctor that told her to eat mostly carbs. Thatās even worse. It seems she listened to her doctor and pretty much stopped eating sugar but bread, I doubt anyone can talk her out of those. At least she eats lots of animal fat and meat and vegetables, less room for the worse things though it causes a borderline low-carb, high-fat diet. As she eats much, high-fat is a given but lowering carbs would be nice. No one has the power to make her to change that and probably most people with diabetes are like that.
The ones who would do much for their health (I would do nearly anything for that), hopefully are desperate/hopeful enough to do research and try things but it surely would make a difference if doctors would talk about low-carb (150-160g net carbs a day is considered low-carb in my country, itās the upper limit but I consider it super high and it is for many people even if they donāt know about it).
I love my veggies and fruits but I am tired of the āeat moreā advice myself (as we know, itās an advice for everyone, healthy people too). The starches make me unwell so I am even more dislike that advice.
IF someone needs them, thatās different, but as a general adviceā¦ Maybe itās really for the average one who canāt give up their carbs. Still, encouraging them to eat starches frequentlyā¦ Sad.
And itās so vague that āeat moreā. What if I eat 10 bananas and a few apples already? So many veggies and fruits that as a volume eater (I am not), I canāt even eat much more so my diet becomes very unbalanced and super carby? Not a perfectly average person reads these but individuals. Or it doesnāt matter, the more extreme cases arenāt important, they arenāt numerous?
Maybe I am into the individual cases too much but I always disliked when one single way was preached. I dislike when people want others to go keto/carnivore/vegan for life too, itās wrong, we are different.
Reduce salt is especially bad for some people because it is essential unlike fruits, starches and well, even vegetables. Reduce salt is you eat way too much of it, it may be common but not everyone eats too much salt. Eat more veggies if you eat little and more would benefit you. If sugar isnāt so great for you, maybe lower your sweet fruit intake instead of eating more of it. Sugar is sugar even if itās in fruit, itās not even a different kind, itās glucose, fructose, saccharose. Saturated fat doesnāt mean automatically bad. Oh my, I start to be cross myself if I continue and I know this world to some extent.
BlueViolet
(hottie turned hag)
#4
What in the holy hellā¦
OK even if I knew nothing of keto, itād be common sense that if one has diabetes, that lowering glucose via diet by limiting carb intake, would be simple conclusion to draw!
barefootbob
#5
I think we have to realize that common sense is now so uncommon as to be a super-power. 
The years have made me a cynic, I do believeā¦
Kismet
(Murphy Kismet)
#7
I like to say that Common Sense can only be found in a museum, hermetically sealed under a glass dome.
Rebj
(Rebecca )
#8
Good grief, that make me want to laugh AND cry at the same timeā¦keeping people sick makes money.
KetoSnaps
(Rebecca šø Frankenfluffy)
#9
As a type 1 on insulin since age 11 I never questioned what I was being told - eat xg carbohydrate x times a day and take x units of insulin.ā
Never once did I think āhmmm, am I taking insulin because Iām eating carbs, or am I eating carbs because Iām taking insulin?
Sad but true.
Took me 29 years to put two and two together.
Now Iām nearly 45. The last couple of years Iāve had incredible control of my diabetes, thanks to dramatically reducing my carb intake.
How did it take me so long?
That sign at the doctors this morning made me feel very sad. Some good news though - my friend who was diagnosed with type 2 back in August with an HbA1c of 78mmol/mol told me today that itās now 48mmol/mol (48 is the threshold for diabetes diagnosis in UK). One point lower and sheāll only be prediabetic!
How has she achieved this? KETO!
KetoSnaps
(Rebecca šø Frankenfluffy)
#11
How I figured it out was not through Bernstein, nor even connected with my diabetes, but the short story is that I had inadvertently gave my doctor cause for concern with my salt consumption 3 years ago.
It boiled down to āso you mean if I donāt have so much salt, then I wonāt be drinking and peeing 10-13 litres per day?ā
You know, a bit like:
āIt hurts when I do this.ā
āDonāt do that, then!ā
It then wasnāt difficult to extrapolate this to the carbohydrate/insulin seesaw.
In my defence though, when youāre a kid and youāre made to inject stuff several times a day that youāre told could kill you, you listen very, very carefully to what youāre told, and youāre made to feel itās not your place to question it. I mean, theyāre the doctor and youāre the kid, right?
When a friend was doing the Harcombe diet 6 years ago, which was based largely around reducing carbs, we had a discussion about it. I said that I could never do that diet if I needed to lose weight, because I needed carbs because I was diabetic. Why did I think that? Because I had been told it my whole diabetic life.
Itās chilling, isnāt it?!
Fangs
#12
my gosh that is horrible to the ultimate. the stupidity or whatever you want to call it of the medical profession is absolutely frightening to our health.
my mother in laws diabetes specialist is better than that. he said ya want a sausage, egg and cheese biscuit from fast food, get oneā¦remove the biscuit 
She wonāt do itā¦lolā¦but at least the dr tells her more protein etc and no fruits and bread etcā¦ā¦.so I think he is one that tells them the truth but the patient sure has to want to hear it which she will not. ugh