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<blockquote data-quote="xyzzy" data-source="post: 265674" data-attributes="member: 40343"><p>Phoenix you and Stephen can trade diets and numbers and try and prove each other right or wrong over this or that. I just care what my meter says two hours later and importantly that I want to control my T2D mostly by diet with a bit of help from Metformin only. To do that I freely admit I largely ignore the UK out of date advice and instead inform myself from other, more often than not, up to date sources like the Americans and the Swedes</p><p></p><p>Now it seems to me that the good lady and <u><strong>professional</strong></u> Janine Freeman, RD, LD, CDE the Diabetes Nutrition Specialist and on the 2012 board of directors of the AADE (American Association of Diabetes Educators) is a reductionist like me which is why I like what she says. She pushes "Eat to your meter" by "controlling total carbohydrate" as the primary means. After that selection as to what is healthy may be GI driven.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That is all I am saying. As I mentioned to Jopar earlier I am simply showing that just as there are alternative and accepted diets that are contrary to the UK NHS diet in other countries with modern Western health services those same countries do not necessarily share the same strength of belief in GI as is promoted in the UK. I do this to inform not to denigrate GI.</p><p></p><p>Likewise it is not my intent to undermine yourself or anyone else who successfully controls their condition using a GI based perspective. As insulin using diabetics who am I to tell you what system suits you best and in fact I can quite easily see why you and Jopar choose GI. Like many T2's on the forum I am not an insulin using diabetic and like them I would like to chose and advocate a method that works for us.</p><p></p><p>On the brown bread issue you raise. One simplification too far so I take your point and will amend my text. In my defence I do end up always recommending Burgen Soya bread as it has the lowest carbs and in the context of my post its the reduced carb message I'm pushing primarily. If you read the new text it studiously avoids the use of technical terms such as Carbohydrate and GI so as not to confuse the new member.</p><p></p><p>Interestingly I now have equal numbers of PM's that say my new text is better as its simpler as I have saying the old text with all the numbers in was better and that the new one is to dumbed down.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="xyzzy, post: 265674, member: 40343"] Phoenix you and Stephen can trade diets and numbers and try and prove each other right or wrong over this or that. I just care what my meter says two hours later and importantly that I want to control my T2D mostly by diet with a bit of help from Metformin only. To do that I freely admit I largely ignore the UK out of date advice and instead inform myself from other, more often than not, up to date sources like the Americans and the Swedes Now it seems to me that the good lady and [u][b]professional[/b][/u] Janine Freeman, RD, LD, CDE the Diabetes Nutrition Specialist and on the 2012 board of directors of the AADE (American Association of Diabetes Educators) is a reductionist like me which is why I like what she says. She pushes "Eat to your meter" by "controlling total carbohydrate" as the primary means. After that selection as to what is healthy may be GI driven. That is all I am saying. As I mentioned to Jopar earlier I am simply showing that just as there are alternative and accepted diets that are contrary to the UK NHS diet in other countries with modern Western health services those same countries do not necessarily share the same strength of belief in GI as is promoted in the UK. I do this to inform not to denigrate GI. Likewise it is not my intent to undermine yourself or anyone else who successfully controls their condition using a GI based perspective. As insulin using diabetics who am I to tell you what system suits you best and in fact I can quite easily see why you and Jopar choose GI. Like many T2's on the forum I am not an insulin using diabetic and like them I would like to chose and advocate a method that works for us. On the brown bread issue you raise. One simplification too far so I take your point and will amend my text. In my defence I do end up always recommending Burgen Soya bread as it has the lowest carbs and in the context of my post its the reduced carb message I'm pushing primarily. If you read the new text it studiously avoids the use of technical terms such as Carbohydrate and GI so as not to confuse the new member. Interestingly I now have equal numbers of PM's that say my new text is better as its simpler as I have saying the old text with all the numbers in was better and that the new one is to dumbed down. [/QUOTE]
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