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I saw the diabetic nurse today...

Who is DESMOND for? I've never been told about any of these courses everyone talks about. Are they for medicated/insulin diabetics only?
 
KELI said:
Who is DESMOND for? I've never been told about any of these courses everyone talks about. Are they for medicated/insulin diabetics only?
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Newly diagnosed tyoe 2s ( or those longer diagnosed tyoe 2s who express an interest in going in our area ). They run different course for insulin dependent diabetics. Some areas run Xpert course instead I think. Ask your surgery.
 
Eurobuff said:
They also do mini Eclairs (2.9 total carbs each) and Profiteroles (similar carb content). It is just the frozen ones though
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Mumble mumble... mumble... profiteroles... Mumble mumble...

Huh?

HUH?!?

Did someone say profiteroles?

Be still my heart!
They are my ultimate fave desert!:wacky::wacky::wacky:
 
What I don't get though, is my nurse told me about the diabetes.co.uk website as soon as she told me I was diabetic, saying it's a great site with loads of information. Surely, she (they) would've clicked the forum link and found all this wonderful information too? Baffling.
 
hornplayer said:
That is terrifying.

There is so much breathtakingly bad advice out there, and it's been followed for so long that it's little wonder there are so many health problems now.

I've lost patience I'm afraid.


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Trouble is most of the bad advice comes from the health "professionals". It's a good think we've got this website and support from people who may not be professionals, but at least we know that if certain things work we can at least try them out ourselves and if it doesn't work for us we just keep trying.
 
nomistheman said:
Of course, that depends - it's not true for everyone ... I can eat bananas as a medium sized one will only raise my blood glucose by 1.7 mmol / L :cool:

Just saying! ;)
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Allergic to bananas and pineapple. It's written on my file. - Another black mark, - they don't know anything about us as individuals.

Used to love bananas. :(


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nomistheman said:
LOL

Sorry but, I eat profiteroles too! ;)

Nar nar nee nar nar! ;P
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That's just mean! :p
Have you tried Tescos finest Dominican republic 85%?
It's my latest yummy treat. 2 squares are 5g of carb! :)
 
@xgemmiex your nurse probably wanted you to visit diabetes.org.uk (the charity who give dodgy dietary advice for Type 2's) and got her website addresses wrong and sent you here. Best thing she ever did.
 
xgemmiex said:
What I don't get though, is my nurse told me about the diabetes.co.uk website as soon as she told me I was diabetic, saying it's a great site with loads of information. Surely, she (they) would've clicked the forum link and found all this wonderful information too? Baffling.
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DUK have a lot of good information especially for newbies explaining all about diabetes ..see their T2 magazine available free from Tesco... skip the food section if you are going to do LCHF.... they won't recommend low carbing so thats why they will rarely tell people about this forum
 
Really? A diabetes organisation that doesn't recommend low-carbing ? That's like an alcoholics' site that doesn't recommend non-alcoholic drinks! I think most newbies are less concerned with knowing all about diabetes and more concerned with learning how to combat it. I would have thought 'low-carb' would have been the most important thing for pre-diabetics and T2's, and useful for T1's as well. Still I'm sure DUK must have their own reasons for this.
 
zand said:
Really? A diabetes organisation that doesn't recommend low-carbing ? That's like an alcoholics' site that doesn't recommend non-alcoholic drinks! I think most newbies are less concerned with knowing all about diabetes and more concerned with learning how to combat it. I would have thought 'low-carb' would have been the most important thing for pre-diabetics and T2's, and useful for T1's as well. Still I'm sure DUK must have their own reasons for this.
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Most of their sponsors are drug companies.

See here for a list.

And I noticed that WeightWatchers are on board too.
 
Hello Brunneria, have read the list and the more money/drugs/sponsorship/louder the shout gets you higher up the list. I would not have thought Weight Watchers would be any good for diabetics, they always seem to me to have carbs in most things to fill you up, so to speak, ttfn
 
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