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And you don’t think the increase in diabetes has anything to do with the fast food/sugary snack world and sedentary lifestyle we live in now and people’s unrealistic health optimism. At the end of the day the Health care teams can only provide advice and guidance they cannot force you to make lifestyle changes a large responsibility lies with the individually to act upon the advice so put a blanket blame on the healthcare teams I feel is unfair
I am not apportioning blame in a blanket fashion. An individual who follows the dietary guidelines given by HCPs for those with a metabolic dysfunction is often met with suspicion when they say that they have stuck rigidly to the EatWell Plate but see rising bg and its attendant complications. Patient blaming does go on.
I agree that as adults we are responsible for our own health and as a parent I had/have a vested interest in diet and overall well being. We are bombarded by the media which portrays those with T2 as greedy and lazy, we are surrounded by foods which are nutrient poor and carb dense, and we are given outdated advice and told to eat less and move more in the CICO model. We are conditioned to think that grains, esp whole grains, are good and that sat fat is bad and this is based on what? The Food Industry's dodgy data and the researchers who are not averse to manipulating findings to fit their pet theories.