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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JSBr" data-source="post: 2626087" data-attributes="member: 565886">Haha. This is a subject close to my heart. 2 years ago my total cholesterol levels were a bit high but a good ratio of HDL/LDL so I didn’t change much as I didn’t eat a lot of saturated fat (standard advice was plenty veg, fruit, whole grain, low fat, etc)Then I got colon cancer, had a section removed and got a temporary ileostomy. The list of advised foods for at least the first six weeks would be enough to make a conscientious diabetic break out in a cold sweat . I wasn’t diabetic. I.e. white bread, white pasta, potatoes without skin, no veg or fruit, but jelly babies and marshmallows are good, custard cream biscuits but not digestives and so on…)Then the chemotherapy and steroids sent my HbA1c high so got added to the T2 list and got Metformin. I didn’t get any dietary advice at all from any of the medical people I spoke to about diabetes, but I did cut back on the few things that remained tasting nice while on chemo (ginger sweets, ginger beer)I now have a large gallstone,  so advice for that is to reduce fat intake. If I eliminate all the things that each condition recommends, then I’m left with lean meat, but I’m not a very enthusiastic carnivore. I recently spoke with a medical practitioner about all the conflicting advice and she eventually suggested the priority should be to follow the advice for diabetes. Only when I hung up the phone, I remembered I hadn’t had any advice on controlling diabetes. But I suppose it’s all available on sites like this one.</blockquote>

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