jjraak
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- Type of diabetes
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If you follow a low carb diet why would you need to test? 90% of money spent on Diabetes is on T2’s already, without adding this on top. I’m sorry if I offend anyone, but that’s how I feel. As a mother of a 12 year old that’s had T1 for 8 years this month, and has no such option as a low carb diet to reverse her diagnosis, this is something I have always felt strongly about!
Hi @Asleuk
Absolutely agree that the worries about your child SHOULD at the top of most peoples lists.
i have no argument at all with that statement.. THAT IS money well spent.
Recently the papers have had a blitz of the tsunami of Type 2 patients overwhelming doctors/hospitals,
here is one among many last few weeks and over the last several years, and the Numbers just KEEP on building up
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...diabetics-DAY-One-10-admissions-diabetes.html
what DIDN'T work before IS the Default position for many in the TYPE 2 world of health care, it seems to me.
What IF, just by spending less then a £1 a day for 90 days we could help many of those manage their T2 better,
meaning less of us in the waiting room, taking up valuable surgery time. AND potentially remove many of us T2D's from hospital wards, over the next one year, 5 years, and into the foreseeable future.?
That £90 seems like money WELL spent, especially so for some one who IS in dire need, like maybe your child, who needs that doctors appointment, this week rather then 4 weeks time, Or needs some time in hospital, maybe not as an emergency, but to run checks etc, but they keep being cancelled (as many do, for multiple illnesses each year) because someone else is taking up that bed space, Someone who MAYBE, with better care, could have avoided the need to even be there.
So yeah, i get what your saying, but the money we spend PROVING that the dietary changes MAKE a difference, TODAY not at the next HBA1c, give people like me,,and many others on here, Hope, faith and a willingness TO manage a disease that By many accounts IS Progressive, Debilitating and ONE of the major causes of deaths in the UK.
Put like that, to my eyes anyway, it seems like a No Brainer.
50% success rate at Dr Unwins surgery..and that's just ONE surgery out of how many.
imagine THAT translated across the UK.
Spend today, SAVE Tomorrow (in many ways, not least in peoples lives )
i have THAT for me.
I WANT that for many others, maybe YOU or other family members in years to come, God forbid.
as i said earlier, i have no issue with your needs and concerns for your child, most admirable,
but maybe THIS way IS the BEST way to help ALL of us.
Kind regards.
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