dawnmc
Well-Known Member
- Messages
- 2,453
- Location
- Sheffield
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Non-insulin injectable medication (incretin mimetics)
My mum and dad have recently been diagnosed with diabetes, they are 78 and 80, neither are overweight. Their GP's have given them no advice whatsoever, mum had a diet leaflet thrown at her, and my dad was told by his doctor that potatoes were fine to eat. He's irish so to do away with spuds is something he would notice. Neither of them have been told anything about diet, just to carry on as they were. I try to speak to mum about it but she's not bothered and hasn't changed her diet at all. She can't walk far now anyway after she was on statins for a year.
It's just I think that the advice given out is diabolical, given that particularly some elderly folk arn't going to change, we seem to be tarred with the same brush. Younger and younger people are being diagnosed and there is a catastrophy waiting in the wings.
It's just I think that the advice given out is diabolical, given that particularly some elderly folk arn't going to change, we seem to be tarred with the same brush. Younger and younger people are being diagnosed and there is a catastrophy waiting in the wings.