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<blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 1320662" data-attributes="member: 41816"><p>If someone gives a meter and test strips to a new T2 and tells them they MUST eat carbs, then the readings are going to scare the living daylights out of them, and the whole experience will be depressing and frightening.</p><p></p><p>If someone gives a meter and test strips to a new T2 and says 'test before and 2 hours after food, and if your bg rises by more than 2mmol/l then you need to reduce the carbs in the meal until your bg stays in range', then the experience will be empowering and result in greater health and fewer long term complications.</p><p></p><p>But doctors are not trained/educated/open to the idea that dietary control is possible for the fat, lazy, greedy, slothful T2s. </p><p>After all, they ate their way to this condition, so they haven't got the self control to change... (and no, I don't agree with this thinking)</p><p></p><p>It also goes against NHS dietary guidance to tell people to reduce carbs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brunneria, post: 1320662, member: 41816"] If someone gives a meter and test strips to a new T2 and tells them they MUST eat carbs, then the readings are going to scare the living daylights out of them, and the whole experience will be depressing and frightening. If someone gives a meter and test strips to a new T2 and says 'test before and 2 hours after food, and if your bg rises by more than 2mmol/l then you need to reduce the carbs in the meal until your bg stays in range', then the experience will be empowering and result in greater health and fewer long term complications. But doctors are not trained/educated/open to the idea that dietary control is possible for the fat, lazy, greedy, slothful T2s. After all, they ate their way to this condition, so they haven't got the self control to change... (and no, I don't agree with this thinking) It also goes against NHS dietary guidance to tell people to reduce carbs. [/QUOTE]
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