douglas99
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- Type of diabetes
- I reversed my Type 2
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- Other
Of course reducing liver fat is good.
My reason for doing Newcastle diet was not initially weight loss, it was the thought that there was an opportunity to finally get control of BG. I have personal experience of close relatives with complications of uncontrolled T2. I do not want to inflict that one my loved ones.
I acknowledge that there is so much ignorance among health professionals. This usually results in them thinking that T2 is always progressive, and so dish out the healthy eating plate and Metformin etc as the only option. They do not generally seem to like it when a T2 patient presents an alternative. I would not advocate forcing T2s into following the Newcastle method, but I would give newly diagnosed the info to allow them to make their own choice on the matter. It is only 8 weeks out of their life in the first instance, then after a way of eating and living that is sustainable for life.
Part of the problem is HCP see a majority of patients that don't respond to the diagnosis, so it is progressive. Not many even bother with the 'healthy eating plate' as a first step.
And I have to be fair to mine, she accepts what I do, (maybe it's a variation on the healthy eating plate she sees, so we're both in our comfort zones, but I don't think it's that similar)
Even if we don't agree on what we're doing, at least we're doing something, but sadly. we're the minority HCP's ever see.
The other thing to remember, my HCP has known me for years.
And no offence to others, as I'll put my hand up and be counted, but she had to have thought, 'I told the fat b*****d to lose weight for the last two decades, what's he going to do now?
It wouldn't have been a radical diet that would have been first in her mind.
Keep him alive in spite of himself, I would guess.
She's known me for twenty years, tablets, and god help him!