Forgive me, readers with Type 1, but I can only write from my own standpoint: one who suffers from Type2.
For the second time in a few days a friend has asked me, 'Aren't you seeing a dietician?' - and both have been astounded at my negative reply: 'No dietician - I've been left to fend for myself!'
True, I saw the surgery practice nurse who has 'training' in advising diabetics on all relevant matters, including on diet.
So, I went home having been told to eat 5 portions of fruit & veg a day - eat little and often - and go in for wholegrain breads, rice and pasta.
This I duly do - and on the next visit to the GP six months later I have a higher BG reading than before!
Then - one of the best things that has ever happened to me: I'm put in touch with this webpage. Thanks to all you good folk and this marvellous website I learn then about low-carbing, relevant books - in short, more in a week of reading the entries than i ever did from any medical practitioner.
I then order and avidly read the books - Jenny Ruhl, Gretchen Becker - and all they say makes perfectly good sense.
But - hang on a minute - these writers, they're American. Yes, thank God they've put pen to paper - but where are the British medical writers on Type 2 diabetes? Where do you find our medical profession following up the low carb theories and offering them to the general public?
I was aghast when my nephew, three years out of medical school - and his wife - ditto, and now a GP - said that the university education they received on treating diabetes lumped Types 1 and 2 together - and, yes, they were given the mantra, 'five portions fruit & veg, little and often, rice and pasta - the healthy diet for diabetics'.
So if this is what Type 2 are to be told - what's the point in seeing a dietician?
What on earth is going on? Why is so little of the low carb answer getting through to our doctors and on to the sufferers? Don't the powers that be care enough - or what?
It beats me.
For the second time in a few days a friend has asked me, 'Aren't you seeing a dietician?' - and both have been astounded at my negative reply: 'No dietician - I've been left to fend for myself!'
True, I saw the surgery practice nurse who has 'training' in advising diabetics on all relevant matters, including on diet.
So, I went home having been told to eat 5 portions of fruit & veg a day - eat little and often - and go in for wholegrain breads, rice and pasta.
This I duly do - and on the next visit to the GP six months later I have a higher BG reading than before!
Then - one of the best things that has ever happened to me: I'm put in touch with this webpage. Thanks to all you good folk and this marvellous website I learn then about low-carbing, relevant books - in short, more in a week of reading the entries than i ever did from any medical practitioner.
I then order and avidly read the books - Jenny Ruhl, Gretchen Becker - and all they say makes perfectly good sense.
But - hang on a minute - these writers, they're American. Yes, thank God they've put pen to paper - but where are the British medical writers on Type 2 diabetes? Where do you find our medical profession following up the low carb theories and offering them to the general public?
I was aghast when my nephew, three years out of medical school - and his wife - ditto, and now a GP - said that the university education they received on treating diabetes lumped Types 1 and 2 together - and, yes, they were given the mantra, 'five portions fruit & veg, little and often, rice and pasta - the healthy diet for diabetics'.
So if this is what Type 2 are to be told - what's the point in seeing a dietician?
What on earth is going on? Why is so little of the low carb answer getting through to our doctors and on to the sufferers? Don't the powers that be care enough - or what?
It beats me.
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