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A forum member pointed me to a speech at the International Diabetes Summit 2018 about the experience of someone with Type 2 Diabetes who eventually found success through a Low Carb diet. A quote:
"They sent me on a course called DESMOND - here's what I learned, I have an incurable disease which will inevitably progress, it's all my own fault for being fat, lazy and greedy and if I want to avoid a long, slow and ugly death I should eat a diet based on starchy carbs and fruit, a sort of banana sandwich diet.
So I did, and I got more active and nothing really changed, my waking blood glucose levels stayed high. So I started to feel depressed."
and about a certain family doctor:
I can highly recommend forum members (anyone, really) to read the short speech by Dan Parker. You can find a transcript here:
https://www.livingloud.org.uk/single-post/2018/12/14/International-Diabetes-Summit-2018
Rather tongue-in-cheek, after reading that speech I realised how to interpret some of the negative comments made by some members of the medical profession regarding Low Carb diets:
1. There's no scientific evidence that Low Carb is safe and effective = I've never come across any studies supporting it, and I'll continue to make sure that I never do.
2. Low Carb is a fad diet = Sadly, it is gaining popularity as more people find it really helpful for weight loss and glycaemic control, but I haven't got any criticism based on logic or medical science.
3. I can assure you that Type 2 Diabetes is an irreversible progressive degenerative disease = Well, it is the way that we have been treating it...
4. The evidence supporting Low Carb is purely anecdotal = You may well find it really helpful, as many people have, but I would much rather you were on a treatment that I'm familiar with but is scientifically known not to work.
I hope these help!
"They sent me on a course called DESMOND - here's what I learned, I have an incurable disease which will inevitably progress, it's all my own fault for being fat, lazy and greedy and if I want to avoid a long, slow and ugly death I should eat a diet based on starchy carbs and fruit, a sort of banana sandwich diet.
So I did, and I got more active and nothing really changed, my waking blood glucose levels stayed high. So I started to feel depressed."
and about a certain family doctor:
"For years he pushed pills and poor advice and watched patients decline. Then a patient, a single patient opened his eyes, he realised and was humble enough to admit he had been wrong, so he tested a little here, refined a little there, proved what could work and now his pre-diabetes programme has a 96% success rate, his full blown type 2 diabetes programme has an average of over 20 mmol reduction and a 24% rate of full sustained remission and he returned £57,000 of money he didn’t need to spend on medication. That of course is Dr David Unwin, Jen and their team.
The single most important thing is for the diabetes establishment to show humility, admit they have this very badly wrong, to look up at the world around them, speak to real patients, take what is working, test it, refine it, prove it and use it. On behalf of those 3.5 million who are suffering I am asking you to do that and do it now."
I can highly recommend forum members (anyone, really) to read the short speech by Dan Parker. You can find a transcript here:
https://www.livingloud.org.uk/single-post/2018/12/14/International-Diabetes-Summit-2018
Rather tongue-in-cheek, after reading that speech I realised how to interpret some of the negative comments made by some members of the medical profession regarding Low Carb diets:
1. There's no scientific evidence that Low Carb is safe and effective = I've never come across any studies supporting it, and I'll continue to make sure that I never do.
2. Low Carb is a fad diet = Sadly, it is gaining popularity as more people find it really helpful for weight loss and glycaemic control, but I haven't got any criticism based on logic or medical science.
3. I can assure you that Type 2 Diabetes is an irreversible progressive degenerative disease = Well, it is the way that we have been treating it...
4. The evidence supporting Low Carb is purely anecdotal = You may well find it really helpful, as many people have, but I would much rather you were on a treatment that I'm familiar with but is scientifically known not to work.
I hope these help!
