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BBC "never going low carb again"

LittleGreyCat

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Total garbage ... BUT:

‘Hanger’ can have a real impact on your personal relationships, too – as shown by a 2014 study which found that low blood glucose levels relate to greater aggression among married couples..

So logically the high bg will lead to love ... From this time I’m ending with bg lowering - with levels over 15 I will be one of the most loving men
 
That's where I've also been going wrong, @rom35 - only the cat loves me and shares my bed. Right, where's the pecan maple Danish, chips and large tub of Quality Street - I will be irresistible..... !

Sadly, there is an awful lot of 'lightweight reporting' about, not just on the Beeb. But this is one of the more ridiculous examples.
 
"How do we avoid the dreaded hanger?

“It depends on how long it’s going to be until your next meal,” says Medlin. “Ideally you want something that’s going to bring your blood sugars up a little bit and also maintain them there. So a sort of savoury carbohydrate type snack would be the best thing to have.”

Err, if you have a normal insulin response your sugars will not be brought up a little and " maintained there". Insulin will have it out of your blood stream and back in normal limits before you felt any effect at all. Have these so -called experts never heard of homeostasis? That our biochemistry is so tightly controlled and yet responds so rapidly to changing conditions must be one of the most wonderful things about the human body.
 

Pecan Maple Danish.... I think I love you
 
Voodoo dolls. Says it all, really.
 
Yes, one expert was interviewed - a nutritionist/dietician. And what diabetic treating with food hasn't sat there listening to a dietician and wondered what planet they are living on? (Yeah I know - Planet Carbs!)

And the male/female angle was just weird.

There was not a word about hunger hormones, or dysregulated insulin, which is particularly strange when we live in a world with massive amounts of blood glucose dysregulation.

Was interesting about the neuropeptides though!
 
I was really really angry and irritable in the months before I was diagnosed - I was running on high BG then and not low .........

How does 1 person, 1 opinion prove anything?
 
Yeah me too @archersuz. It's about too high BG for me too, re the irritability/hanger issue. Too low (in the rare times that has happened, I'm just lying on the sofa watching the tele!)
 
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