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