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<blockquote data-quote="rolypolypudding" data-source="post: 1861025" data-attributes="member: 246008"><p>The GP, like most of us, will have been bombarded over the years with promises of miracle diets and contradictory research results regarding healthy foods. That may be why she is rather cynical about LCHF diets. She has probably also encountered overweight people who have tried one extreme diet after another, and failed to stick to them. Then there are the people who become so obsessive with their habits that it interferes with normal life and becomes a mental illness. </p><p>The other problem is that most of the staggeringly successful results reported from people following the LCHF diet are anecdotal, and therefore not taken as seriously by some doctors as a comprehensive properly funded research project.</p><p>Still it's a shame that this GP felt it necessary to be so negative, and didn't balance out the scepticism by praising the hard work and effort that went into improving health. Too often, type 2 diabetics are sterotyped as fat lazy ignoramuses who have brought type 2 on themselves and ought to be charged for their treatment. Doctors should encourage all attempts at self-help even if they think the patient is misguided. They should intervene more forcibly only if the patient is putting health at risk by being too extreme in their eating and monitoring habits.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rolypolypudding, post: 1861025, member: 246008"] The GP, like most of us, will have been bombarded over the years with promises of miracle diets and contradictory research results regarding healthy foods. That may be why she is rather cynical about LCHF diets. She has probably also encountered overweight people who have tried one extreme diet after another, and failed to stick to them. Then there are the people who become so obsessive with their habits that it interferes with normal life and becomes a mental illness. The other problem is that most of the staggeringly successful results reported from people following the LCHF diet are anecdotal, and therefore not taken as seriously by some doctors as a comprehensive properly funded research project. Still it's a shame that this GP felt it necessary to be so negative, and didn't balance out the scepticism by praising the hard work and effort that went into improving health. Too often, type 2 diabetics are sterotyped as fat lazy ignoramuses who have brought type 2 on themselves and ought to be charged for their treatment. Doctors should encourage all attempts at self-help even if they think the patient is misguided. They should intervene more forcibly only if the patient is putting health at risk by being too extreme in their eating and monitoring habits. [/QUOTE]
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