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[jack412]

You can cut them length ways and make a few out of one

I read at Atkins? For starches you put a bit in your mouth and let the saliva turn some into glucose then test with strip

 

[this is too difficult]

Are you saying diastix can tell you whether a drink is diet or not?

 

[AndBreathe]

Are you saying diastix can tell you whether a drink is diet or not?

Diastix detect sugar in urging, by a chemical reaction between the urine solution and the impregnated patch on the strip. So, coke versus diet coke is the same test. If the drink is full coke, the square will indicate sugar. If it's the diet variant, it won't.

Diastix can be bought without prescription, and at around £5 for 50, are significantly cheaper than a test strip. They are also a bit more discreet to dip in a glass than trying to manoeuvre a stick loaded meter around a glass.

Ketostix, for ketones are the same style of strip, but with a different reagent, so won't work for sugar.

 

[semiphonic]

And you think this is an issue solely relating to the UK? Wow. News flash, there are carbs (sugar) in potatoes, rice, bread and pasta everywhere in the world.....

 

[forge]

I understand your concern about processed foods, but you seem unduly concerned about sugar. Sugar is just another carb to me. I am more worried about the starch in batter, the carbs in beans and the starch in potato than the sugars added to them. It's the total carbs that count for my meter when I test at my post-meal peak, not the proportion of sugar

I travel a fair bit; travel was top of my bucket list when I received my double diagnosis. I don't have a big problem being selective eating strange foods in strange places because I always start with small portions, choose fairly carefully and test after meals for the first few days to discover the dishes with hidden carbs in sauces and thickeners.

Thanks Alan I am from Brisbane I read your Blog intro and I agree there is too much the patient knows best advice in forums. Total health is an issue and so is sample size (number of people involved). You don't get in an ambulance and ask to be taken to a forum!!

 

[Alan S]

Thanks Alan I am from Brisbane I read your Blog intro and I agree there is too much the patient knows best advice in forums. Total health is an issue and so is sample size (number of people involved). You don't get in an ambulance and ask to be taken to a forum!!

Presumably you are referring to my most recent "Do Doctors matter?" post. I'm not quite sure that's the way I put it, but I know what you mean.

Balancing that, there is far too much bad advice given out by too many doctors and far too many dieticians who are yet to join the 20th century, especially poor advice on carbs and blood glucose testing.

There is a balance to be found, between advice from professionals and experience from those whose lives depend on it: us. I must admit I have learned far more on the web than I did from a doctor or dietician. But I always run any important changes past the doc before I put them into practice.

 

[this is too difficult]

Thanks Alan I am from Brisbane I read your Blog intro and I agree there is too much the patient knows best advice in forums. Total health is an issue and so is sample size (number of people involved). You don't get in an ambulance and ask to be taken to a forum!!

Quite right. No you don't. Might be better to sometimes though.
There are a lot of people here.

 

[forge]

Presumably you are referring to my most recent "Do Doctors matter?" post. I'm not quite sure that's the way I put it, but I know what you mean.

Balancing that, there is far too much bad advice given out by too many doctors and far too many dieticians who are yet to join the 20th century, especially poor advice on carbs and blood glucose testing.

There is a balance to be found, between advice from professionals and experience from those whose lives depend on it: us. I must admit I have learned far more on the web than I did from a doctor or dietician. But I always run any important changes past the doc before I put them into practice.

Thanks Alan but mine was a general comment across all forums I have visited.

I do not know about anyone else but I am still alive as a direct result of modern medical procedures and drugs so I am not prepared to thumb my nose at the med profession, and I think a patience approach is justified.

I sympathies a bit with the pros because they have to be conservative.

Just imagine if say in the USA medical pros come out with a LCHF diet and get everyone on it and 2 or 5 or 10 or 20 years on clusters of cancer patients bob up and they are all on LCHF then research finds a deficiency in the diet, If not cancer, the nervous system or the brain. The USA has given the food pyramid the flick and now recommends a "plate" with a side salad. You can check it out for yourself. But by the shear numbers involved they have to be conservative.

However when we go in to the surgery one on one it looks like the profession needs to be more truthful with us and let us decide. I have found (after a long time) a cutting edge Doc, so I expect that more will follow.

I am still not convinced that HF should be considered,for recommendation to the general public as other than a personal choice. I know it has helped many to lose weight but so have other strategies. The followers quote their medical test results but what about the tests that will be around in 2 or 5 or 10 years they may reveal something different.

In my life time (I am 71) we have progressed medically in leaps and bounds and there is no indication that we have gone as far as we can go. I had polio as a kid, then they bought out a (Sulk maybe) vaccine. I think the late 1940s onward has been spectacular for medicine and with computer technology another surge has taken place.

Cheers
Col

 

[Brunneria]

Just imagine if say in the USA medical pros come out with a LCHF diet and get everyone on it and 2 or 5 or 10 or 20 years on clusters of cancer patients bob up and they are all on LCHF then research finds a deficiency in the diet, If not cancer, the nervous system or the brain.
Col

Ironically, that is exactly what they did (embracing an inadequately evidenced new diet regime) when they introduced the high carb low fat diet and food pyramid.

And now, only 40-50 years after that movement began, we have unprecedented levels of obesity and diabetes.

But I don't actually want to disagree with the main point of your post - because I definitely agree that I would prefer a conservative, sensible, evidence based NHS. Hate the thought that my doctor might recommend the latest Wimmins Mag fad diet!!!

I just wish they had used that approach instead of embracing the low fat, low cholesterol, high carb diet they've been pushing in recent decades.

 

[forge]

Ironically, that is exactly what they did (embracing an I adequately evidenced new diet regime) when they introduced the high carb low fat diet and food pyramid.

And now, only 40-50 years after that movement began, we have unprecedented levels of obesity and diabetes.

But I don't actually want to disagree with the main point of your post - because I definitely agree that I would prefer a conservative, sensible, evidence based NHS. Hate the thought that my doctor might recommend the latest Wimmins Mag fad diet!!!

I just wish they had used that approach instead of embracing the low fat, low cholesterol, high carb diet they've been pushing in recent decades.

Thanks Brunn,
Yes, you are right that is exactly what they did. To make it worse our lifestyles became less active. The other thing with diabetes is people used to go blind before they diagnosed diabetes it but now they pick it up early. There are not so many blind people around anymore. (or midgets) modern medicine must be doing something right.