I was just wondering why someone would choose to eat junk food, regardless of anything else. I know that lots of people do, since it's a big business. I was not trying to make anyone feel bad. Sorry.
You did not offend, I find a good debate where feathers are ruffled is the best way to evoke good responses.
You are correct, I am not happy with my diet. But I also am looking at the point that I think fads are also bad, and the short term effects of diets are exhilarating, but people do not seem to calculate the long term good or bad that these diets do.
I question the no or low carbs because of being an athlete, but also that we seem to be spoon fed a lot of scientific information and we except as given.
We are diabetic, we are not sheep, I think this forum has proven that what works for one does not work others. New diabetics follow blindly the advice of old diabetics like ourselves as well as the medical profession without looking into it further. Being newly diagnosed is a lot to take on as well as the obvious changes to your body and your habits. So they do what they think is correct by taking others advice instead of investigating it. (and that is the 1st mistake)
Having sat in a Dr's office while he looked on Google to see what I may have is disconcerting, it is called a Doctors Practice for a reason. They are on the payroll of the government and as we all seem to be aware the NHS is run by greedy ambitious people who are more interested in feathering their own beds, and by cutting corners to cut costs so they can vote on a bigger pay package and **** the people that pay for this service and who need it.
Why do Doctors insist that we go on Statins when cholesterol never been a problem or any other pills that you don't need unless bungs are happening somewhere.
Why do we follow blindly the information of others so easily without investigating 1st. Just because the Internet has videos of success stories and we look at these links posted by other well meaning diabetics, do you know how many links to videos refute the success stories.
Do we know of any dieticians or scientists whose fields are in Carbs or even diabetes that we can field questions at?
Call me cynical or mad or whatever, but we live in a time where the NHS is failing, it's an illness not covered by Health Insurance has so many complications that any insurance company could refuse payment because it may have been down to diabetes. We as a group of people are a drain on resources and are blamed for our own illness whether Type 1 or Type 2 and are grouped together. So whether your bad diet, your genes or your cultural ancestry has bought about diabetes the age old question is why.
Why are we eating so much sugar in all foods, why does the use of corn syrup in all foods not flag with governments? Why do governments put pretend bans on things like cigarettes but still own shares in these companies.
Question your politicians ask what happens to you when NHS is no more. My point is always investigate ask questions, who is getting rich from these schemes, how many are dying, budgets are being cut, are lives being cut as well to balance the books.
Which politicians brother or close aquaintance is sitting on which board when you are told to take this pill and that pill even though there is no proof of you needing to take it or no explanation
Money makes the world go round but at whose expense