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Sorry to disagree, I was as a child deprived of many things including a diet that was a choice, my family didn't. We went hungry often and especially cold in the winter because of lack of suitable clothing, heating etc. since the seventies when the lower underclass in this country was certainly better looked after by the country as a whole. Things have slowly got worse again. The number of people who have had less than a living standard has increased year upon year. The food banks have rocketed. A new opens every day in this country! The working class ARE paying for the banking fiasco of 2008. The number of youngsters that have no viable working future is unbelievable. The housing stock is at sits lowest and completely unaffordable for eighty percent of the population. New high levels of personnel debt. The prison populTion is rising. Burglary is on the increase. Education, national health, sport, libraries, cost of living, need I go on?It's only sad if you don't accept it, learn from it, and improve on it.
You can believe humanity gets better, or worry it gets worse.
I'm in the first group.
I wonder what sort of thread was wanted ...when it was posted here last night ....The title says 'for any', not 'for those', and could include people who have yet to decide.
Interesting ...and perhaps the thread was already being watched ....not nice at all ......You're right there Phoenix. Started with a simple message about managing T2 with minimal drugs, and in a short time it's gone off at several tangents. Odd.
Interesting ...and perhaps the thread was already being watched ....not nice at all ......
Maybe it's the games people play ...again not nice to play games then sit back and watch ....
Having just read "diabetes without borders", recommended above, I very glad that James and I did NOT come across it when he was diagnosed. It recommends way too high blood sugar levels, tells you that you can eat anything and that, unless you go under a fed-ex truck, you WILL end up on insulin. Sounds like a Desmond course and, no, we declined that, fortunately.
We went low carb. Drugs soon abandoned as "unnecessary" (the doctor's word, not ours) and never a blood sugar out of the normal range.
Sally
Yes, buses, fed-ex trucks and a low carb diet are all worth trying to stay off insulin.
Sally
I don't get what you mean Kat...It's a fair topic that has remained quite civil IMO.
Playing games in a way where people are played games with or talked about ....content does not have to be about diet ...If you've found a way of reversing a "progressive", potentially killer disease, you want to tell everyone. It's not playing a game, even if there is sometimes a twinkle in your eye, it's sharing something that could turn around someone else's life, just as those who posted about low carb, some 18 months or more ago, turned round our lives.
Sally
Drs and nurses .....part of the training ....Yuk!! I assumed they just used Ants or other insects to see if they wanted to drink the golden nectar sample.
Indeed. Ms Oppenheimer's book in the OP's link makes sense to me (apart form the large onion bit!) It perplexes me that the current NHS guidelines are so far removed from her suggested diet. I was fortunate to meet some low carbers when I joined here who shared her ideas about diet. It has really changed my life around.If you've found a way of reversing a "progressive", potentially killer disease, you want to tell everyone. It's not playing a game, even if there is sometimes a twinkle in your eye, it's sharing something that could turn around someone else's life, just as those who posted about low carb, some 18 months or more ago, turned round our lives.
Sally
But today's grains have very little resemblance if those grains and loaded with gluten which no man can complete digest and the last couple years the knowledge of what gluten can cause including non-celiac gluten sensitivity. Gluten together with sugar cause problems with the microbiota in the gut leading to many diseases and conditions.Grains were staples as far back as 8000BC or so, from the findings in caves.
Far back enough for me.
...................BTW when human started eating grains their health got worse, caries and stunted height.