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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dennis" data-source="post: 341187" data-attributes="member: 1338">Hi CarolthormanYes, you are existing in a parallel universe.  There's the universe that the UK's government health advisors inhabit, then there's the universe that the rest of us live in.  The UK medical profession (within the NHS), and that includes dieticians, has no option but to follow the government health guidelines, even though many health professionals realise that they are totally inappropriate to people with diabetes.  Unfortunately the NHS doesn't believe that a diabetic should have any different dietary needs than anyone else.When a health professional tells you to eat plenty of starchy carbohydrates, its because that's what they have been instructed to tell you.  Many people in the other universe believe that the NHS recommendation that two thirds of your daily intake should be carbohydrate is more carbs than most diabetics can cope with.  The situation was the same in the US until a couple of years ago when the ADA finally saw sense and now recommends a lower daily carb intake for diabetics.  How much carbohydrate you can eat and still maintain control of your blood sugar levels is something that only you can discover.  There's no magic carb target and what will give some people good control is not the right level for others.  If you experiment and keep testing your blood sugars as you go, you will soon find what works for you.Dennis</blockquote>

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