Gluten free Bread

[ButtterflyLady]

In terms of calories, bread is a cost effective option for those on a limited budget. As a T2 diabetic I choose to spend more on food that won't harm me as much as eating a lot of bread will. Perhaps people with Coeliac disease who don't have T2 diabetes and are on a low income benefit from having access to GF bread. The alternative for them would be a reduced calorie diet, and they run the risk of becoming malnourished, which would cost the NHS more. There are a lot of factors involved and I am sure the experts have pored over spreadsheets and debated the merits of this at length. This is the system they came up with, to be as fair as possible to those affected. The number of people with Coeliac disease is very small.

 

[bobrobert]

Any coeliac who getting food stuff on prescription is getting it because they are entitled to it, just like ANY treatment for anything be it cancer, heart disease, COPD, obesity, asthma, alcoholism etc etc the list is looooong. The NHS is there for everyone, as a T2 who has to listen and read on a daily basis how it's my own fault and I'm costing the NHS thousands etc I have every sympathy for people with this condition. Treatment and medicines don't just come in bottles of pills!

It must be kick the coeliac month, anyone who is unlucky enough to have this and T2 your shins must be sore!

If you had seen the program then you would have known that not all who are entitled to it are getting it. It is one of those situations that depending on where you live some are getting it and some aren't.

It must be kick the coeliac month, anyone who is unlucky enough to have this and T2 your shins must be sore![/QUOTE]

There is no need for the personal stuff. I am entitled to my opinion just as you are???

 

[bobrobert]

In terms of calories, bread is a cost effective option for those on a limited budget. As a T2 diabetic I choose to spend more on food that won't harm me as much as eating a lot of bread will. Perhaps people with Coeliac disease who don't have T2 diabetes and are on a low income benefit from having access to GF bread. The alternative for them would be a reduced calorie diet, and they run the risk of becoming malnourished, which would cost the NHS more. There are a lot of factors involved and I am sure the experts have pored over spreadsheets and debated the merits of this at length. This is the system they came up with, to be as fair as possible to those affected. The number of people with Coeliac disease is very small.

In reality there is very little nourishment in bread especially the white stuff. If subsidy's are a good thing then perhaps fruit, vegetables and meat would be a better option?

 

[lovinglife]

It wasn't a personal remark to you but to the news about it in general, it's all over the news and papers so my comment was pertaining to that not you, yes I agree we are all entitled to opinions, and I did see the programme that's why I said anyone who is getting it entitled to it, that some that are entitled to it and aren't getting is a whole different debate

 

[Engineer88]

@bobrobert realistically you have no experience of the horrors of being gluten free. Stop battering what doesn't affect you in any way shape or form, the media are causing a **** storm with badly researched health articles at the moment.

 

[bobrobert]

@bobrobert realistically you have no experience of the horrors of being gluten free. Stop battering what doesn't affect you in any way shape or form, the media are causing a **** storm with badly researched health articles at the moment.

I would have thought that being glutton free isn't horrific? Perhaps you could rephrase it. I am gluten free because I don't eat wheat products or products with gluten in them. I don't look for substitute products either.

 

[CarbsRok]

If you had seen the program then you would have known that not all who are entitled to it are getting it. It is one of those situations that depending on where you live some are getting it and some aren't.

The only way you are entitled to gluten free on prescription is for a positive coeliac diagnoses, so perhaps as per normal reporting isn't all that accurate

 

[noblehead]

@bobrobert realistically you have no experience of the horrors of being gluten free. Stop battering what doesn't affect you in any way shape or form, the media are causing a **** storm with badly researched health articles at the moment.

Quite agree.

As this thread is causing upset to some members it is now being closed.