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Diabetic labelled foods

nikki did email me but at the mo cannot travel through illness :(
 
Interview this morning - so keep watch for me Monday 22nd, 7:30 pm, BBC 1. It'll be gripping TV, though my favourite programme at present is the Waitrose advert with the lovely song "How can I keep from singing?"

Me? I sing all the time, but there isn't a Waitrose near.
 
I was also advised not to buy "diabetic" food - expensive and full of stuff that is gonna cause me even more problems. However, I have found a really nice farm shop that sells organic and some diabetic foods, mainly sauces and jams etc, and i've been really pleased with what they have to offer. I think it's just the mass produced stuff that i'll be steering well clear of


Jim

PS - I wont even get started on Diabetic Chocolate, what a disaster that was
 
Me too
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Now I am a TV star - that took me 3 hours as I live in Southall & the filming was in a supermarket near Waterloo. [Water WHAT :oops: :?: ] If they had shown more of their planned clips it would have been more embarrassing. My nurse friend Sally should have known better.

This should take you straight in 13 minutes in
 
mm - I wondered if it was you lol!

When i first qualified you could always tell who were the diabetics on a ward - they were queing for the loo!
 
Well done Ian! You're lucky it was filmed a few weeks ago - I took my son to London for the day today and you should have seen Oxford Street! Eeek!
 
All my family & friends seem to have seen me :oops: :!: & delight to play it again :twisted:

What did son Jon give me for Christmas :?: Prunes :!: But also a selection of seeds & nuts :)
 
Re: Diabetic diet

Niki took a long time to get back to me after the programme - I have now written to her:

WD is a very popular programme - its amazing how many of my friends & family saw it. I didn't get any diabetic chocolates for Christmas, though one of my sons gave me a packet of prunes!

As you know, a number of us on the diabetes.co.uk forum have experienced improvement in our diabetes management by questioning the NHS/DUK dietary advice to "eat starchy carbohydrates with every meal." In my case I was becoming crippled with leg pain which threatened my mobility. I reduced carbohydrate consumption from last May & the improvement in my health has been dramatic. Blood tests have shown an improvement in HbA1c, all blood sugar measurements, cholesterol, together with a weight loss of 6-7 Kg, a reduction in tiredness. My tennis is also back up to club standard.

The questionable dietary advice diabetics are given could be having a serious affect on the nation's health, in that we are told that a diabetic diet is the same healthy diet for everyone. The wrong advice is being given to diabetics, & it could be that that dietary advice is the cause of the obesity epidemic, rather than the cure, in that starchy carbohydrates overload the pancreas & so lead to diabetes. Excess carbohydrates lead to obesity. Its not obesity that is the cause of diabetes, but the diet, which also leads to complications.

I am available for further programmes if you need me.
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