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How did you hear of the Eatwell Plate

Pinkorchid

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I always wonder how people heard of the Eat Well plate and did they keep to that way of eating before they had diabetes. I had never heard of it until I joined this group and it was never mentioned to me by my doctor or diabetes nurse. My diet was pretty much moderate no rice or pasta didn't like them and not a great deal of bread and potatoes except a jacket potato a couple of times a week for lunch.so really except the potatoes I still eat much the same way except I went off red meat so only eat chicken now
 
Never heard of it before diagnosis.
Don't agree with it now.
 
Was given a poorly photocopied sheet with it on the day I was diagnosed..
Ignored it as I had already found my way here thankfully!
 
My daughter who is 5 comes home from school with occasional leaflets and last week a fun exercise booklet about the eatwell plate and a game involving stopping the sugar cubes from taking over all of our food, so it seems it is now being promoted in schools.
 
I remember the forerunner, The Food Pyramid, being taught in my school in the seventies (as part of 'Cookery' class). I saw posters of Eatwell in the 2000s (?) at the doctors waiting rooms too.

I rebel against the idea that if only people had stuck to the guidelines they may not have developed Pre Diabetes or Type 2 Diabetes. If that is where this thread is going?

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Never heard of it by name but certainly the media and drs posters and slimming world and numerous other sources advocated it and the principles without naming it obviously. Saw pictures of the plate plenty. (And the us pyramid too).
 
Heard about it when my daughters hockey level reached a point that food directly affected her training.

As parents do. I joined her and we ate the same. Ironicly I had smaller portions. I ate more fruit rice and pasta etc. Reduced fat.

2 years later I'm given the same advice after being dx as pre-diabetic.

I now know better and am very happy with keto.
 
We got the Dutch equivalent of the EatWell Plate (De Schijf van Vijf ; the Disk of Five) in school when I was about 8, maybe 9. It didn't look like this back then, just really "hip" 80's type of colourful drawings, but yeah... If I look at it now my bloodsugars (and pressure) rise from the sight alone. I thougth I was doing everything right because this is what I was told by my teachers, doctors and dieticians.
*shrug*
What do they know, eh.
 

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I see no karne melk...
 
I was given a very glossy coloured booklet about it on my first nurse appointment, plus there were posters up on her surgery wall.

It went in the bin once I realised what rubbish it was.

What did I eat before? No pasta or savoury rice as I don't like them. (did have pudding rice though). No ready meals or takeaways other than fish and chips, too many potatoes, too much bread, Cornflakes for breakfast.
 
JoKalsbeek said:
Well, there's low fat milk on there, but also a glass, and a jug, and a bottle... So it's probably hidden somewhere if you look hard enough. Or care to taste?
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No thanks.. I once poured a glass by mistake at our canteen in Utrecht.. and then drank it...
 
bulkbiker said:
No thanks.. I once poured a glass by mistake at our canteen in Utrecht.. and then drank it...
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I sympathise. I had some once too. Traumatic experience, must've been 4 and in my gran's kitchen. I never understood it either. And I'm supposed to, I guess!
 
Fortunately I heard about it on this forum before it was presented at the Desmond course.
 
I first saw it on a big wall poster in my doctor's waiting room many years ago when I was there for something else and there was a pile of leaflets on the table next to it. I was so pleased that my diet followed this recommended eating plan. I had no idea the harm it was doing me until a couple of years after I was diagnosed and discovered low carb.
 
Like others on here, the first I heard of it was on diagnosis.

My GP gave me 3 or 4 pages of badly photocopied "information" on how to deal with my T2D.

I didn't read any of it, as I'd already found this site and had already decided how I was going to proceed.
 
I have only heard of it on this forum.
But, the dieticians rarely speak to me. Possibly because I don't have a "weight problem" .
I remember I was given something when I was first diagnosed but when I realised it fo uses on weight loss, I threw it away.
On the DAFNE course, there was little discussion about what to eat to manage bg. It was a our carb counting (with no upper or lower limit) and a bit about calories (which I ignored).
 
I remember the pyramid in Home Economics (posh name for cookery) classes at school. Then I was taught similar guidelines for food during my nursing training. I then forgot them all and ate whatever I wanted until my type 2 diagnosis. I luckily discovered low carb eating here before my education session where the Eatwell Plate was pushed
 
bulkbiker said:
I see no karne melk...
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I used to love it, and in the summer everybody in Denmark eats it with added sugar, vanilla and a kind of cookies called kammerjunkere. Kærnemælkskoldskål. (Lots of funny letters there for you. Here's an ø, just in case).
 
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