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Ideas please for a photoshoot next week that encapsulates the 'low carb' idea

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Next week I'm in London for a photoshoot connected to my low carb research .I have already done one this week and was quite pleased with a shot of me dropping slices of bread and a pack of pasta into a dustbin .Cannot really do the same again- ideas please!
 
I would love to say a huge pile of fat in the form of butter and cream but I don't think you will get away with that one!!
There is a programme on BBC 1 in the mornings at the moment called 'Rip off Britain - Food' which often mentions sugar. The plus point is that they have said that fruit smoothies are not as healthy as thought due to large amount of sugar (little fibre).
They also had a section on the high sugar in 'low-fat' foods but sadly couldn't quite recommend 'eating the fat is a good idea' and still recommended the low fat products as a good aid to dieting. (Slaps head).
Gloria Hunniford sounds like she has had a close shave with raised blood sugars and is keeping her sugar intake low but not LC/HF. My point with LC/HF is that when restricting food intake, it keeps you full so less likely to crave foods.
 
Crushing a generic 'Wheat biscuit' breakfast cereal in your hand for the camera perhaps? supposedly a good choice for breakfast and sure some folks will report good BG numbers but the majority of diabetics(Including myself) will find such 'Recommended breakfast choices' a poor choice as a breakfast where post prandial readings are concerned.
 
Some very good suggestions there, I've been racking my little brain but I'm just not creative, in the least... *pout*
 
Lol. Actually I haven't used my breadmaker for two and a half years. We don't have potatoes in the house as I was the one who eat all the baked potaoes. Pasta - my husband hates it. My son rarely asks for it now.
The other thing that 'Rip off Britain' mentioned was that cereals are high in sugar but clever marketing to make us think they were a healthy breakfast. The 'Men That Made Us Fat' and the 'Men That Made Us Thin' programmes were an epiphany for me. Clever, clever marketing by the food industry. The truth is out there, it's just a matter of time.
 
Have two tables, one with lots of brown food - cereals, bread, cakes, pasta, potatoes, processed high carb sausages. The other with lots of brightly coloured above ground vegetables, nice cuts of meat.

Show the difference.
 
The general idea put about seems to be that people doing Low Carb eat just meat, fish, eggs and cheese....as portrayed by that tv documentary about Lc v Hc.... so how about shopping for lots of fresh green vegetables and berries (maybe at a market stall) to add to the protein in your (wicker) basket. Not just healthy for low carbers but for everyone! :)
 
Agree, Gloria Hunniford was doing just that. Just couldn't push herself to sanction eating fat in any quantity, as well!
 
And ... that programme on HF v HS was ridiculous. A missed opportunity. However, the deadly combination of sugar with fat was revealing and yes, that is modern processed food in a nutshell. Don't diss the sausages - I love my high protein content sausages from my local butcher. People might read all sausages as processed, unfortunately.
 
All the foods which you listed in your diet recommendation for your patients would work well.
 
Look at our "What have you eaten today" thread - we have some tempting photos of low carb meals that might inspire you.

Robbity
 
How ambitious can your photo shoot be?

One of the things that shocked me the most when I started reading about carbs and nutrition was the fact that livestock is fed grains to fatten up. And yet, we're told that eating grains is a good way to keep slim and healthy. I appreciate humans have a different biology from animals, but can we really expect to believe that what makes a pig grow can make a human shrink?

I'd feed corn flakes to a photogenic piglet. Oink oink.
 
If practical I would suggest a myriad of cauliflower recipes as a demonstration of the variation of Low carb foods, purée, soups, roasted, pizza base etc. it could be compared with the standard/high carb versions.



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I would suggest two photos of which breakfast is best:-

1. Typical breakfast of toast and cornflakes

2. Full English (obviously not with toast)

Everyone gets it wrong.


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Two diabetics eating two breakfasts - one eating the "diabetic recommended" cereal HCLF version; one eating bacon & eggs or other LCHF breakfast - then a picture of their BG meters giving a 1 hour reading.

Given how the standard packaged porridge seems to affect most Type 2's, I reckon that'd be a real shocker result.
 
who will the audience be?


I agree smashing breakfast stereotypes is the most important for 'lay people.'

A crushed wheat biscuit in each hand trampling on corn flakes perhaps stood next to a table with an equivalent amount of sugar based on a bowl of cornflakes for a year?


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Rye grains couldn't be healthier for me: they allow me to SAFELY keep my HbA1C at a healthy 27mmol/mol.

Incidentally, I think people - GPs and diabetics especially - should make a point of NOT calling so-called 'breakfast cereals' cereals: they almost always contain cereal PLUS sugar - Conflakes included. (Shredded Wheat and .... edit: Mini Shredded Wheats .... are notable exceptions.)
 
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