"The evidence tells us that we need to eat more starchy foods, such as potatoes, bread, pasta and rice,... to increase fibre consumption and protect bowel health.
"Our advice remains the same: base meals around a variety of starchy foods, including potatoes with the skin on, and choose wholegrain varieties where possible."
Yes. As this advice hastens our ill-health, I can see why
@Oldvatr posted it. And I believe - yes - we do need to seriously make our voices heard. We're talking new people here - babies. From women who are showing signs of insulin resistance and blood glucose dysregulation in GD. This is serious business indeed.
We live in interesting times, that even with all the nutritional information, and information about diabetes and the food environment, our western-world governments are all standing by this line in some way or another. I do seriously believe there is a fair wack of 'cognitive dissonance' going on, first and foremost, which is contributing to the time lag with the idea that T2D at least, is expressed as carbohydrate intolerance (Type 1s - tell me what you would say about Type 1 and health maintenance with low carbing in this part of the paragraph?). I would have to say, as noted by sports science researcher and type 2 diabetic Tim Noakes, that if the majority of the T2 diabetics alive today treated their diabetes with reduced carbohydrates six major pharmaceutical companies would go under - may very well have something to do with this. We should not forget what an enormously powerful position 'big business' has in lobbying our governments, not to mention our hospitals and medical practices. And of course - the food industry itself, when it comes to looking at where the carb intolerance comes from, for T2 diabetics at least, in the first place.
I would love to see 'media watch' factions of diabetic action groups in all the countries represented in this forum for instance, that put out a press release in response to all such articles/in the media of our respective countries, to the media company concerned (in this case the venerated BBC!). Then our voices would be heard, and if, in time, the journalists and their bosses decide to include our comments/responses, and even elicit them, which would be quite likely I would imagine. Then the message would get out there.
This forum has English-speaking online-writing diabetics congregating here from the UK (natch!), the USA, India, Canada, Australia, NZ (just off the top of my head), keen English-as-a-foreign-language speakers, as well as English-speaking expats from around the world. We could have media-action groups and a media action branch from this forum too?
