Do you follow a reduced carb diet?

In the light of the revised stance on reducing carbs by DUK and their notion of lack of evidence that it works, I thought a poll would be a good indicator of the amount of people on this forum who have taken up the advice given when new members join http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes-forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=17088 (even if they weren't newly diagnosed).

I'd been given the advice by my HCP about reducing sugar intake and not a word about what other carbs do. I'm not interested in how many or how few carbs you eat or what the rest of your diet contains, just whether you have reduced carbs.

Nigel

I would say this poll is different as it is asking if you do reduce carbs and if so, for how long you have been doing so.

I've just realised that I had over 3 years listed twice, so have changed it to other, so anyone who follows their own diet can put it there

Thank you to everyone who has taken part in this poll. Keep on voting ...

Even if you had the information about reducing carbs before you joined, you are following the advice given to new members. So you need to put your x in the amount of time you have been reducing carbs.

Hi LGC

I'm not a statistician, but wanted to gauge whether people had taken note and acted upon the information given when most new members join ie http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes-forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=17088 not all the information on the site. I also wanted to know if you have overall reduced the proportion of carbs in your diet, how long this has been happening.

Polls on this site allow you 10 options, maybe I could have worded the question better and chosen different options with the questions (I also made a mistake and put over three years down twice - which is why there is a yes - other in the middle of the questions). Once you have created a poll, you can't delete a question or completely re-name it, without it resetting the poll and starting again.

In hindsight, then there probably should have been a none of the above category, but I'm hoping that people who don't think they fit the other categories can use the 'yes - other' option.

I was not newly diagnosed when I came here, but had been given the usual HCP advice about watching the sugar content and eating wholemeal bread. My bs was out of control and I wanted to learn more. I realised that it wasn't just 'sugars', but carbohydrates in general that I needed to watch.

Hope this explains where I'm coming from with this poll. Voting in it of course is optional, if you don't think it is applicable to you, then just ignore it, but I'd like to thank the people who have already cast their vote.