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Diabetes dietician on YouTube, any good?

pjgtech

pjgtech

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Hi, I have been watching a few videos on YT, and saw a few from this guy, see link.
www.youtube.com

Diabetes Diet Guy

What's up everyone. I'm Mark, an accredited dietitian and previous sport and exercise science graduate. Welcome to the channel. It's all about losing weight and diabetes. If that's your interest, you're in the right place. Follow along and let me know if you have any comments or questions.
www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
He seems to give good advice, is UK based, and seems to explain in an easy to understand way.
Does anyone else watch him or have an opinion on his advice?
Cheers
 
The couple of videos I watched suggest he knows what he's talking about, and seems to offer good advice.
 
A lot of the ones I've seen previously were US based and some were not so good. Theres one woman in the US who claims to have diabetic friendly recipes and they were all mostly loaded with carbs and sugars!
 
Well my answer was to whether they were any good. Id you're specifically looking for low-carb advice, you might want to look elsewhere.
 
pjgtech said:
Hi, I have been watching a few videos on YT, and saw a few from this guy, see link.
www.youtube.com

Diabetes Diet Guy

What's up everyone. I'm Mark, an accredited dietitian and previous sport and exercise science graduate. Welcome to the channel. It's all about losing weight and diabetes. If that's your interest, you're in the right place. Follow along and let me know if you have any comments or questions.
www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
He seems to give good advice, is UK based, and seems to explain in an easy to understand way.
Does anyone else watch him or have an opinion on his advice?
Cheers
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The Diabetes Diet Guy appears to be promoting his 'exercise before diet' services. That may well be a good approach for ong term sustainability for many people.

Some of his opinions about DiRECT and remission are ill-informed. He does not know about Prof. Roy Taylor's Newcastle team's Counterpoint study in c.2008. That proved T2D is reversible for many people.

As you probably know the NHS Pathway to Remission programme uses TDR shakes and soups like those in DiRECT programme, which in turn stemmed from the soups and shakes Prof. Taylor designed for the Counterpoint clincal trials.

Once the Counterpoint results were published, thousands of emails asking for details of the soups and shakes arrived in Newcastle. Prof. Taylor recommended portion control instead. Many reported achieving remission, and the Newcastle team published a paper about 77 of them who had given sufficient information. Prof. Taylor then called for research into optimum diets for weight loss and maintenance (for reducing excess hepatic and pancreatic fat to/at normal levels).

Meanwhile Prof. Taylor says the Newcastle Diet took life on a life of its own. Presumably because Direct UK (who would fund DiRECT) and the NHS (who would implement a managed programme on DiRECT, if successful) both needed reliable research data to justify their financial decisions.

I recommend you read Prof. Taylor's book and/or watch his talk at the 2023 PHC conference. These will help you sort the wheat from the chaff in the Diet Doctor's vids.
 
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