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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Other
So I go along to my doctor, who is generally quite helpful and collaborative and I tell him I'm adopting a mild version of LCHF (130g) and that it is recommended that I tell him about it. He frankly admits that he doesn't have enough knowledge of this style of eating and asks me to see the dietician. Met with the dietician yesterday ( another generally helpful person ) who tells me she's never heard of LCHF, that I shouldn't trust anything I read on the web unless it's from an NHS source and that I should be eating starchy carbohydrate with every meal.
For me, this means that I have to have the courage to follow a regime that my health professionals don't support. I am now committed to do this but it must deter very many diabetics.
Are we as a community trying to change this situation? If so, how are we going about it? It would be good to build an information pack, citing NHS approved or internationally accepted mainstream papers supporting the LCHF case to point them to. There would need to be a mix of easily digestible and serious papers to try to convince them, but the most important issue would be the source which would have to be one they'd trust.
As mine are relatively open minded, I've sent them some representative material but it's likely they won't have time to read it and we are such a long way from their knowledge base that it's like trying to move a mountain.
For me, this means that I have to have the courage to follow a regime that my health professionals don't support. I am now committed to do this but it must deter very many diabetics.
Are we as a community trying to change this situation? If so, how are we going about it? It would be good to build an information pack, citing NHS approved or internationally accepted mainstream papers supporting the LCHF case to point them to. There would need to be a mix of easily digestible and serious papers to try to convince them, but the most important issue would be the source which would have to be one they'd trust.
As mine are relatively open minded, I've sent them some representative material but it's likely they won't have time to read it and we are such a long way from their knowledge base that it's like trying to move a mountain.