In nutrition, diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism. Dietary habits are the habitual decisions an individual or culture makes when choosing what foods to eat. With the word diet, it is often implied the use of specific intake of nutrition for health or weight-management reasons (with the two often being related). Although humans are omnivores, each culture and each person holds some food preferences or some food taboos, due to personal tastes or ethical reasons. Individual dietary choices may be more or less healthful. Proper nutrition requires the proper ingestion and, equally important, the absorption of vitamins, minerals, and food energy in the form of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. Dietary habits and choices play a significant role in health and mortality, and can also define cultures and play a role in religion.
a : food and drink regularly provided or consumed
b : habitual nourishment
c : the kind and amount of food prescribed for a person or animal for a special reason
d : a regimen of eating and drinking sparingly so as to reduce one's weight <going on a diet>
AMBrennan said:Good luck with that; I'm sure an non-blinded non-randomised study with sample size n=1 will really impress your consultant.Actually, part of my motivation in doing better is to prove my Doctor wrong on the whole low-carb thing
Besides, you'll need much, much more for that - remember insulin pumps? They improve HbA1C as well. However, they also increase mortality massively (odds ratio 7.2 compared to NPH - cf NICE TA 53)
AMBrennan said:Good luck with that; I'm sure an non-blinded non-randomised study with sample size n=1 will really impress your consultant.Actually, part of my motivation in doing better is to prove my Doctor wrong on the whole low-carb thing
AMBrennan said:Besides, you'll need much, much more for that - remember insulin pumps? They improve HbA1C as well. However, they also increase mortality massively (odds ratio 7.2 compared to NPH - cf NICE TA 53)
AMBrennan said:Your right, I did get the reference wrong but I'm very sure about having read it in some NICE publication, which looked in passing at early models of insulin pumps - thus the high mortality.
However, my point still stands - HbA1C is an imperfect indicator of "health"; improving your HbA1C may decease the risk of diabetic complication but increase the risk of complications from other conditions unrelated to diabetes.
Sorry, but I simply have a problem with the attitude that it's safe - and advisable - to completely disregard medical advice as long as a single measurement is within range.
AMBrennan said:However, my point still stands - HbA1C is an imperfect indicator of "health"; improving your HbA1C may decease the risk of diabetic complication but increase the risk of complications from other conditions unrelated to diabetes
AMBrennan said:Sorry, but I simply have a problem with the attitude that it's safe - and advisable - to completely disregard medical advice as long as a single measurement is within range.
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