Things are not much different here in the U.S. The diabetes education people are off their rocker! When I asked why they don't check insulin levels they said "It's just too expensive." My research says if they were checking insulin levels, then someone could be detected with rising insulin levels up to 15 years before they actually developed full type 2 diabetes. Instead, they check your blood sugar when your fasting. This is why I had type 2 diabetes for over 10 years and no doctor caught it. I already had peripheral neuropathy in the feet, which 4 doctors could not figure out why me feet were numb. I diagnosed myself on the internet! Then I got an HbA1c, which was about 12. 6.5 is diabetic in the U.S. scale.
At ADA diabetes training they said "We don't know what causes diabetes and there is no cure." I asked why do you give drugs that raise insulin levels to type 2 diabetics, when they are already hyperinsulemic? They said "Because we don't know what else to do." I asked "Aren't you afraid of causing more medical problems from high insulin levels?" They said "We know of no problems from high insulin levels." I said "Don't you know high insulin is what causes type 2 diabetes in the first place, won't this just make the insulin resistance worse?" answer "It may even lower your insulin levels, we don't know." Believe me, it doesn't lower your insulin levels it only raises them and makes your insulin resistance even worse, so you need more and more drugs. Earth to healthcare providers - you don't treat a nutritional disease with drugs. Diabetes isn't a Metformin deficiency. It's a disease caused by too high of insulin levels, from eating too many high glycemic carbohydrates. Period. I asked "Why don't you teach the glycemic index or loads of foods? They said "That's something that was used about 10 years ago, but it's not used anymore." That's a lie because glycemic index has never been used by ADA educators, far as I know, and I've been going to these useless diabetes education classes, taught by unenlightened health care workers, for the last 13 years and it hasn't changed at all. Check this out, written in 2008, nothing has been done to address this in the U.S.:
From - The World Health Organization Report #916
“Nutrition is coming to the fore as a major modifiable determinant of chronic disease, with scientific evidence increasingly supporting the view that alterations in diet have strong effects, both positive and negative, on health throughout life. Most importantly, dietary adjustments may not only influence present health, but may determine whether or not an individual will develop such diseases as cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes much later in life. However, these concepts have not led to a change in policies or in practice. In many developing countries, food policies remain focused only on undernutrition and are not addressing the prevention of chronic disease.
It has been projected that, by 2020, chronic diseases will account for almost three-quarters of all deaths worldwide, and that 71% of deaths due to ischaemic heart disease (IHD), 75% of deaths due to stroke, and 70% of deaths due to diabetes will occur in developing countries (4). The number of people in the developing world with diabetes will increase by more than 2.5-fold, from 84 million in 1995 to 228 million in 2025 (5). On a global basis, 60% of the burden of chronic diseases will occur in developing countries. Indeed, cardiovascular diseases are even now more numerous in India and China than in all the economically developed countries in the world put together (2). As for overweight and obesity, not only has the current prevalence already reached unprecedented levels, but the rate at which it is annually increasing in most developing regions is substantial (3). The public health implications of this phenomenon are staggering, and are already becoming apparent.”
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/trs/who_trs_916.pdf