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As I understand it a Nutritional Therapist are not a recognized profession, unlike a Dietitian.
 
New one on me as well. @cairneeee - could you expand on where you have come across this and what it is you would expect them to do?
 
I have come across sarah garton a nutritional therapist online treats lots of different conditions with food supplements and pre-cribed dietary requirements. along with Barbara Cousins cookery books.
could view for themselves.
 
What’s your HbA1C @cairneeee ?

Why would ‘nutritional therapy’ help spinal damage as you said in your other post?
 
I think Sarah Garton has been swallowing the Eatwell Guide whole. But since when has dietary fat caused high glucose levels? Quote from her website.

Diabetes diet
The key thing in managing diabetes through diet is eating regularly and including plenty of starchy carbohydrates, fruit and vegetables. A well-balanced diet will help you achieve and maintain a healthy weight and overall well-being. While diabetes is a long-term condition, it doesn’t mean you must avoid sugar for the rest of your life. Sugary and high-fat foods do, of course, spike your levels, so should be limited, but not completely avoided.
 
Strange that you should think of seeing a nutritional therapist then? Did you not receive dietary advice from your surgery?

I edited my post above just before you replied. I’m interested in why/how ‘nutritional therapy’ would help severe spinal damage? Or is it the shamanic healing that helps?

Have you seen this therapist yourself?

@Robin Lol :D
 
“The key thing in managing diabetes through diet is eating regularly and including plenty of starchy carbohydrates, fruit and vegetables.”

Hahahahahahahah.

I have nothing further to add. Excuse me whilst Igo rock in a corner.
 
@cairneeee The best thing for you to do would be to speak to your surgery and find out exactly what blood test(s) you had done.

Then see if they have info sheets or a diabetes nurse you could speak to for advice. You could also look at the Learning Zone link here (top of the page) and at the Food and Recipes section.

Don’t waste your money on unqualified practitioners.
 
Hi again @cairnee. I assume that you are a newbie to the world of diabetes in general and hope that you are not disheartened by the responses you have got to your question. If you read around the forum and begin to get to grips with the subject you will find that the members, most of whom have done a few miles with diabetes, tend not to take kindly to internet gurus promising that their magic solution will cure all known problems including diabetes. We all know it does not work like that. It does not help when the guru makes suggestions that go against our collective experience.

So in answer to your original question, it is unlikely that anybody on the forum has consulted a nutritional therapist and in any case would not do so if offered the chance. Can I encourage you to read around the forum and begin to get a sense of what diabetes is all about and the tried and tested things you can do to get to grips with making sure that your "at risk" status does not escalate into a full blown diagnosis?

Anything you don't understand, ask about. You will find a lot of people who will share their experience of dealing with diabetes and help you work out your own plan. Just hold onto the idea that there is no magic solution which works for everybody, there are general principles that individuals can work with to get a way forward that suits them.
 
cairneeee said:
I had blood tests done at my doctors must have not been a HbA1C test
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If you saw the machine they used and it was small and the test took under a minute then that's just a blood glucose test. If it was a big machine (fridge sized) and it took ten minutes or so, then that was probably HbA1c. If it was blood taken and sent away to a lab then it might have been either but if they were thinking about diabetes then it ought to have been HbA1c, but then the results ought to have been in the new units (where typical values would be 30-42 for non-diabetic people).
 
Some surgeries seem to persist in using the old system, and an HbA1c result of 6.1% is 43 mmol/mol, which is indeed just into the prediabetic/at risk of diabetes range (42 - 47).
 
Hi and welcome.

The reason that people are being so disparaging about your suggestion is that
a) This Nutritional Therapist's dietary advice for diabetes is very similar if not identical to NHS advice, which is free
b) the collective experience of this forum is that the above advice (both your source and NHS) is inaccurate, outdated and unhelpful for most Type 2 diabetics.
c) there is better dietary advice available here on the forum which is free and a "test, review, adjust" way of tailoring your diet using a BG meter to test before and 2 hours after each meal is a much better use of finances and will tell you what your body will tolerate rather than following general guidelines.
d) contrary to what the NHS will tell you, as diabetics, fat is our friend as it does not raise our Blood Glucose and will help to supply us with the energy we need when we cut back on carbs (the normal source of energy) which our bodies have become intolerant to.

Please don't be discouraged and if you stick around and read some of the forum threads you will see that many people here have been successful in pushing their diabetes into remission and losing weight following the advice here and please don't be tempted to spend money on dietary advice which it seems, from some of the info quoted, is inaccurate.
 
cairneeee said:
I have come across sarah garton a nutritional therapist online treats lots of different conditions with food supplements and pre-cribed dietary requirements. along with Barbara Cousins cookery books.
could view for themselves.
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Dear CAirneeee,

There's a documentary on Netflix called Fat Fiction. I would thoroughly recommend you watch that if you want a good comprehensive intro into the subject of diet and diabetes.
 
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