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book claiming to stop diabeties

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Jamiesamp

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have any of you heard about a book claiming cure diabeties in 30 day i wounder if this book could be dangerus. without medical asstance
 
Jamiesamp said:
have any of you heard about a book claiming cure diabeties in 30 day i wounder if this book could be dangerus. without medical asstance
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I suspect this book is in a cast of thousands Jamie, there’s so many of them. Which one are you referring to?
It depends what it recommends I suppose and hopefully isn’t talking about type 1.
 
It strikes me that D is big business, not just with the Pharmaceutical companies..... Most of what I see offers no real substance, just wild claims; even WEB sites I have respect for have a premium section:(
 
As far as I'm aware, once you have the condition you are stuck with it. However I believe it can be REVERSED by lifestyle changes with or without medication.
 
Dave W said:
As far as I'm aware, once you have the condition you are stuck with it. However I believe it can be REVERSED by lifestyle changes with or without medication.
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Well, for Type 2 it can be reversed, anyway. I hope the book isn't making claims for Type 1.
 
I prefer the word 'controlled' rather than 'reversed'. I feel like it doesn't give out false hope!

There are certainly people out there who can get their diabetes under control just through diet which is great. I envy those people. It's just incongruous to me to assume that it will work for everyone as it probably won't. Someone who's desperate could pick the book up, try it, and then just lose all faith if it doesn't work.
 
Good advice from everyone. IMHO there is no quick fix for T2 just lots of ard slog and not letting go and giving up. I don't know if even that helps everyone. Don't think that there is a solution for T1 yet. I hope that one day there may be because I think they have a much more difficult condition to control. Heard on the radio at lunch time that a diet of 800 calories per day over three months can reverse T2. Might give that a try. 🙂
 
I think just about every chronic condition has some book that shows how it can all be fixed by a particular (just send some money) method. What most people don’t seem to realise is that if any of these methods really worked, they would be picked up by mainstream medicine.

I speak as an expert, as I’ve got four.:confused:
 
from what i ve heard its a diet you have to stick to for life or it comes back so not really a cure just management
 
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Make a low calorie diet and lose weight by the way seems endorsed by Diabetes UK, and there's a study - DIRECT - that is trying to confirm the idea. Just followed a link in homepage.
 
Jamiesamp said:
from what i ve heard its a diet you have to stick to for life or it comes back so not really a cure just management
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It is not exactly a hardship - eating a low carb diet at the level I need to have normal numbers, seems to be something I can keep up very happily.
 
Drummer said:
It is not exactly a hardship - eating a low carb diet at the level I need to have normal numbers, seems to be something I can keep up very happily.
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Lucky you 🙂 Before the diagnosis I was eating pizza like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, if you know what I mean. And after the pizza a slice of Neapolitan pastiera. The fact I've found a really small pizza restaurant in Turin where two brothers and their mum came from Naples and made really big and really good pizzas didn't help.
Besides the jokes - It's not hard if you know what to do and you can resist to friends and relatives that are giving you sweets, fried potatoes or pasta.
You can convince them that Carbonara pasta isn't really healthy, but is harder to explain that a soup with potatoes and rice is a starch bomb, and a sure way to get a spike.
 
Pizza was something that happened to other people, I have never understood the attraction, but there are low carb pizza bases you can make - and there are low carb recipes for all sorts of delicious things.
I find that if I explain several times that I can't eat things which are going to make me unwell then people do eventually get the message, but eating beforehand or taking along your own foods can help in some situations, otherwise it is simply staying strong until you can get hold of safe foods.
 
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