Don’t get me wrong, i don’t disagree with some of the sentiment but it’s an uphill struggle for the NHS. I genuinely believe that many of people who end up on this forum and others like it, are those people who are motivated to do what is necessary and will make big changes to get the numbers down. I suspect they are in the minority overall. Either people who have beat it, then over time its come back and need to make bigger changes, first timers like me determined to beat it, or people who have been battling for a long time and want to share their positive experiences are on the forum.
I myself am following the NHS advice and its working well. However, if it stops working, I will change again, I will do what I need to protect my family.
Again, i can only go by the 10 people i met on the course, but most of them were in total denial about the whole thing. After the exercise about how carbs are the enemy of a diabetic and to be careful of total carb content (How many grams of sugar in the slice of bread type thing), how much sugar in a small bottle of coke, we had dinner and i sat with two people who went directly and bought a bottle of coke. A third pulled a 1.5 litre bottle from the bag and quaffed it over lunch.
I get sugar is addictive (I really really do), but if its hard to change people if they are not ready to change.
I’m also not critising the people, its really hard to even make small changes, but I think many people just absorb a diabetes diagnosis and put it as one of the things that happens and take the medication and carry on as normal.
Imagine the evidence was present, that LCHF had zero negative side effects on health long term and the NHS could teach it. If the course instead said go LCHF, you can’t eat chips, bread, pasta, cake, sweets, beans etc in anything apart from tiny amounts but if you do follow it you wont have any complications. I think at least the same result, if not less people would follow it. It takes a very determined person to stick to that path.
When a majority of people struggle to make small changes, like simply avoid large portion of refined carbs, cut out sugary drinks and eat less cake… its really hard to push a more difficult objective.