Our next Meeting is on Tuesday July 26th . Members, of all Groups are welcome to attend, with their family, loved ones and carers
Dr Nadia Raja cannot attend due to personal reasons. Instead Jennifer Bank Smith ( Health Promotion Manager with the Hounslow PCT) and three colleagues will give a presentation on the Expert Patient Plan.
The programme for the evening:
7.00pm Open for Tea and refreshments
7.25pm Jennifer Bank Smith and colleagues: Expert Patient Plan.
8.35pm Open Forum chaired by Colin Stacey and Ron Grant
9.05pm Raffle.
9.15pm Close
Venue: Montague Public Hall, 30 Montague Road, Hounslow TW3 1LD. One of members requested that I include a location map and how to get to Montague.
I was invited on the XPERT course early in 2010. I would recommend the course to everybody.
I can fairly say that I have become an expert patient in that I have reversed debilitating complications to become fit & well.
Over 3 years ago I was suffering from crippling muscle pains, chronic tiredness & the beginning of retinopathy. Changing to a low carbohydrate diet has made a tremendous difference & I have sustained that diet for over 3 years without any adverse effects. I am 72 & play tennis at club standard.
Diabetes UK strongly recommend that half of what we eat should be starchy carbohydrate. They warn against a low carbohydrate diet.
I, & many contributors to the the http://www.diabetes.co.uk/ forum, have found by experience that the diet advice diabetics are routinely given contributes to the progress of the disease, & the resultant complications.
We have found that carbohydrate restriction is only beneficial.
D uk have recently produced a “Position Statement” on low carb diets, warning that “there is a lack of evidence related to long-term safety and benefit of following this diet.” They seem to ignore a 44 month Swedish study, citation 13 which states: “ the present high-carbohydrate dietary advice resulting in unnecessary hyperglycemia and insulin resistance seems difficult to support and for diabetes patients, current dietary recommendations seem to be a major part of their problem rather than being part of the solution. Carbohydrate restriction, however, reverses or neutralises all aspects of the metabolic syndrome.”
Comments please.
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IanD said:Have any of the Hounslow group checked in on this forum? You took details & said you would.
I've been invited on the EXPERT course starting Sept. 16 or Nov. 11. I suspect it will be for my contributions rather than my benefit.
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