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- Type of diabetes
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Is there anyone else out there who is facing resistance to being on a LCHF diet? So far today, 3 works colleagues (all teachers!) have given me this lecture, when declining rice with my meal! Apparently one knows because she "planned her diabetic dad's meals!" I have tried explaining that there is more than 1 school of thought, as well as masses of scientific evidence but to no avail. My sister-in-law thinks I'm arrogant for not following the advice of the diabetic nurse from hell's advice "it will get progressively worse and you need to eat more carbs." When I pointed out that there is a doctor in Sweden with a health blog who checks out and advices this diet to his patients, I was greeted with the response "oh so you found it on the internet" and "you don't live in Sweden" nothing like a bit ofxenophobia!
Conversation with diabetic nurse went as follows:
-Aren't rice, potatoes, bread and pasta carbohydrate which turn to sugar in my stomach and then increase the sugar levels in my system? Why, as a diabetic would I want to do that?
-That's why you need to eat slow release carbs.
-Won't that have the same effect?
-No. You will have used all the energy up before it gets into your system.
-Thought that blood sugar was carried to my cells by insulin then used as energy?
-Right. I am referring you onto the diabetic nurse at the hospital.
-Can I have a blood sugar monitor?
-No you don't need one. The tablets bring your bs down.
-didn't you just tell me that different foods affect my bs and that it was trial and error as to what would work for me so therefore I would need to test before and after meals.
-Like I said, the tablets bring your bs down and we don't give a monitor unless you are on insulin.
-Doesn't this contradict Nice?
No response(Stoney faced silence)
- I have lost 4lbs.
-that would be the diabetes!
Conversation went downhill from here.
Thank you for letting me rant!
Conversation with diabetic nurse went as follows:
-Aren't rice, potatoes, bread and pasta carbohydrate which turn to sugar in my stomach and then increase the sugar levels in my system? Why, as a diabetic would I want to do that?
-That's why you need to eat slow release carbs.
-Won't that have the same effect?
-No. You will have used all the energy up before it gets into your system.
-Thought that blood sugar was carried to my cells by insulin then used as energy?
-Right. I am referring you onto the diabetic nurse at the hospital.
-Can I have a blood sugar monitor?
-No you don't need one. The tablets bring your bs down.
-didn't you just tell me that different foods affect my bs and that it was trial and error as to what would work for me so therefore I would need to test before and after meals.
-Like I said, the tablets bring your bs down and we don't give a monitor unless you are on insulin.
-Doesn't this contradict Nice?
No response(Stoney faced silence)
- I have lost 4lbs.
-that would be the diabetes!
Conversation went downhill from here.
Thank you for letting me rant!