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<blockquote data-quote="ann34+" data-source="post: 986204" data-attributes="member: 94348"><p>That was tried for a lot of the years since insulin came in, to mid 1980's,. When i was diagnosed, there was only strict, simple advice with 10g carb 'exchanges', and just before that there had been the even stricter black and red line system. In the USA they counted fats, proteins, and carbs. Then In the UK the exchange system was abandoned, then even carb counting was abandoned, Balance magazine stopped publishing carbs on their recipes, we were told we should just 'eat healthy and normally', my consultant said most people did not follow the exchange system anyway. Being very careful was thought to be obsessive. There was also the new availability on prescription of testing strips (a limited number of these were available before this through teaching hospitals). Daphne may have been a response to these no counting years and to the findings of the DCCT, (in 1979 there were still arguments in the medical press over whether control was linked with complications - there was not much encouragement to get what would now be called good control ). Are you thinking the exchange system could be an option again?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ann34+, post: 986204, member: 94348"] That was tried for a lot of the years since insulin came in, to mid 1980's,. When i was diagnosed, there was only strict, simple advice with 10g carb 'exchanges', and just before that there had been the even stricter black and red line system. In the USA they counted fats, proteins, and carbs. Then In the UK the exchange system was abandoned, then even carb counting was abandoned, Balance magazine stopped publishing carbs on their recipes, we were told we should just 'eat healthy and normally', my consultant said most people did not follow the exchange system anyway. Being very careful was thought to be obsessive. There was also the new availability on prescription of testing strips (a limited number of these were available before this through teaching hospitals). Daphne may have been a response to these no counting years and to the findings of the DCCT, (in 1979 there were still arguments in the medical press over whether control was linked with complications - there was not much encouragement to get what would now be called good control ). Are you thinking the exchange system could be an option again? [/QUOTE]
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