Just had a visit with my NHS Dietitian.
Whilst congratulating me for going into "remission" and lowering my HBA1c from 85 to 38 in just over 4 months, he did not like the fact that I changed my diet to an extremely low-carb and very healthy diet.
He said my fasting blood glucose readings between 4 - 6 mmols/l are false and I'm cheating.
He also emphasized to me to eat "normally" and stressed out that the NHS does NOT agree with low-carbing and it's strongly NOT advisable.
So I was sitting there in his office thinking this is just another waste of my time and while I was listening to his sermon, I saw a book sitting on his desk about "Carb and Calories", the best selling book on counting carbohydrates and calories for Diabetics!!!
Absolutely confusing!!!!!!!
Interesting "logic" on the part of this dietitian.
The fact he is a dietitian surely means that he believes that you can influence your health with what you eat. Yet he asserts that you, by influencing your health with what you eat, are cheating.
Clearly a case of confirmation bias. He can see that your diet has had great results, but he ignores it and writes it off as an anomaly, because you aren't eating what he thinks you should eat. It's a dangerous thing, confirmation bias. It switches off that part of your mind which allows you to see data and to let that data influence your opinions.
I'd bet anything, that if he saw 40 patients in a week, 20 of which had had great results through eating LCHF, and 20 of which had had poor results through the 'eatwell plate', he would not even realise that he was being presented with data.
The sad thing is, that doesn't make him a bad person, it makes him normal.