Looking for trends and issues for type 2 diabetics

[Clinica-Lounge]

I'm a nutritional consultant and I often use these forums to look for trends and issues that type 2 diabetics are experiencing. It is important for diabetics to understand that everyone is individual, how one medication or food choice affects a person is completely unique to them. The only way to find out how a food/medication affects their blood sugar levels is to test regularly. Everyone has an individual set of genetics, susceptibility and lifestyle choices. These message boards are great to get guidance and guidelines. The support they offer is extremely important, as many people share the same goals and can offer feedback and encouragement to others.

I hope to post information on nutritional medicine, so individuals can be made aware of the type of support out there, that can run alongside their medical treatment.

 

[Robster65]

Hi clinica-lounge. Welcome to the forum 🙂

As you may be aware, we don't offer specific clinical advice on the forum.

If you want to post about nutrition for general discussion, that's fine but I don't think it would be acceptable to offer any individuals advice on their nutrition. And obviously any postings of a commercial nature wouldn't be allowed.🙂

Rob

 

[Pumper_Sue]

I'm a nutritional consultant and I often use these forums to look for trends and issues that type 2 diabetics are experiencing. It is important for diabetics to understand that everyone is individual, how one medication or food choice affects a person is completely unique to them. The only way to find out how a food/medication affects their blood sugar levels is to test regularly.
Ooohhhh are you going to provide test strips, how kind of you?


I hope to post information on nutritional medicine, so individuals can be made aware of the type of support out there, that can run alongside their medical treatment.

Nutritional medicine?
The well informed person with diabetes knows the best option is to be carb aware and to be especially careful with startchy carbs. 🙄

 

[trophywench]

We tend to use this free support right here on this forum, it isn't often necessary to go elsewhere because we have a huge membership and someone's most likely to know the answer to almost any question we care to post, with the express exclusion of this week's lottery numbers .......

 

[Clinica-Lounge]

Hi Rob,

Thanks for responding. As a nutritional consultant we don't offer advice to individuals without a full consultation, the full medical history and diet diary etc, therefore from a professional point of view it wouldn't be acceptable either.

I would like to post questions for research purposes, for example viewpoints on the paleo diet, or peoples understanding of fructose and it's effects.

Thank you for your time.

 

[Clinica-Lounge]

Nutritional medicine?
The well informed person with diabetes knows the best option is to be carb aware and to be especially careful with startchy carbs. 🙄

Hi Sue,

Unfortunately I don't have test strips, sorry. You all seem well informed, but i mainly work with the largely uninformed, or those with a range of other conditions and complications, or those that struggle to control their blood sugars even though they appear to be doing the right thing. There are a lot of people who choose to ignore they are a type 2 diabetic until it is too late and they eventually end up on insulin too. The uneducated don't even understand what constitutes a carbohydrate and there is a lot of media hype and misinformation out there.

 

[Pumper_Sue]

Hi Sue,

Unfortunately I don't have test strips, sorry. .

I was being sarcastic, very few type 2's ever set eyes on test strips as GP's/PCT's refuse to provide them.

Perhaps you would be better off educatings the HCP's concerned? 🙂

 

[trophywench]

What you say is perfectly true and we are well aware of it.

Those of us who appear to be well informed are only that by and large because they have taken the trouble to educate themselves and prompted by that, to proceed to ask the right questions - either here on the internet or from their medical team.

This is a very available resource - not quite 24/7 but the internet is open a lot longer than anyone outside the it! And it's free. And you don't even have to get off your backside to access it .....

I'd rather spend my time helping diabetics where I can reach them easily and also in campaigning for the Government and NHS to do things differently and spend more time and money on prevention than complications that need not have arisen in the first place, plus stop the media printing garbage about the condition, but mostly - the people that have it.

However it's absolutely true that you can only lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink, so a lot of the people who don't want to know, still won't want to know - whatever anybody tries to do about that!