DavidGrahamJones
Well-Known Member
Pleased to see that some GPs think outside their box.
http://diabetestimes.co.uk/gp-wins-prize-for-low-carb-diabetes-work/
http://diabetestimes.co.uk/gp-wins-prize-for-low-carb-diabetes-work/
I've been very fortunate. My GP suggested the Atkins diet (actually for weight loss rather than for glucose control per se) when he first diagnosed my diabetes at the end of 2013. He's also been pleased with my continuing LCHF results, and is happy for me to test, although he's told me he's not actually allowed to prescribe test strips for me (practice policy!). And at my last review (Sept 2015) with our practice diabetes nurse she was happy and impressed with my results from very low carbing - a complete turn around her original Eatwell advice. Her current advice - continue to do what I'm doing!
Robbity
The issue isn't so much as whether it's wrong or right, or about dishonesty. The issue for NICE is the evidence base. Their recommendations have to have an evidence base, and the work that diabetes.co.uk is doing with the Low Carb programme is a good example of submissible evidence that provides clear and inexorable details of the advantages that low carb living gives in the context of diabetes.If NICE knows this, its failure to do something about it is dishonest and dangerous, but most likely due to pressure from the food industry.
True to a large extent, but the thinking that lead to the high carb advice was not really evidence-based either. I would have thought NICE could look at and challenge the 'high-carb' 'research' from that time and move on. It's obvious the food industry lobby is still working hard!The issue isn't so much as whether it's wrong or right, or about dishonesty. The issue for NICE is the evidence base. Their recommendations have to have an evidence base, and the work that diabetes.co.uk is doing with the Low Carb programme is a good example of submissible evidence that provides clear and inexorable details of the advantages that low carb living gives in the context of diabetes.
Up until recently, there have been many studies and none of them have been low carb related, so NICE has had to go on what it had, rather than what appears to be right.
Except that NICE role is not to challenge the research. It's to look over what is available and create guidance based on it. From the NICE charter:True to a large extent, but the thinking that lead to the high carb advice was not really evidence-based either. I would have thought NICE could look at and challenge the 'high-carb' 'research' from that time and move on. It's obvious the food industry lobby is still working hard!
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent organisation responsible for providing evidence-based guidance on health and social care.