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Just had an email with 'advice' about snacking from Patient Access

This advice to T2s is downright dangerous. The better advice would be to eat enough protein and fat at meal times to avoid any necessity to snack or feel hungry. Snacking is not a good idea in the first place, it overworks the pancreas, with or without carbs. Add carbs to the mix and boom - all that circulating insulin causing untold damage.
 
I can honestly say, the only time I snack is on a Sunday, whilst preparing the veg for our meal. My snack then tends to be a couple of Chantey carrots, or some cabbage stalks.

Curiously, during the week, nibbling just never even enters my mind.
 
Rachox said:
I was just reading that!
I’ve sent some feedback via their contact us!
“How can it possibly be right to recommend high carbohydrate (bread, teacakes, popcorn and noodles), high fructose (bananas) and high sugar (maple syrup) products as snacks for Type 2 diabetics? Then mushing up fruit in a milkshake which hastens the absorption of the fructose, shooting blood sugar up rapidly. All of these products would raise my blood sugars (I am Type 2) above an acceptable level!”
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Great reply!
 
I have to say I was shocked, it seems so out-dated but when my Dad was diagnosed (through being overweight) we went on a course at the hospital and they were saying to eat all this **** and I was in tears with the advisor afterwards after he was told to eat 'anything in moderation'. He went away and lost 4 stone but has put it all back on now. He isn't really diabetic, my husband is and he can't eat anything like this :-(
 
welovedzig said:
I have to say I was shocked, it seems so out-dated but when my Dad was diagnosed (through being overweight) we went on a course at the hospital and they were saying to eat all this **** and I was in tears with the advisor afterwards after he was told to eat 'anything in moderation'. He went away and lost 4 stone but has put it all back on now. He isn't really diabetic, my husband is and he can't eat anything like this :-(
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As our favourite GP says "Telling people with T2 to eat moderate amounts of carbohydrates is moderately poisoning them". Snacking is unnecessary though it can be a hard habit to break but advising people to snack on very high carb (imo) foods defies logic.
 
Rachox said:
I think this maybe for problems using Patient Access, I may be wrong. I used this link:
https://patient.info/feedback
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Hi - this was the address I got when I replied to their email so we'll see what happens, thanks, and use this if nowt comes of it. The Health Service need to start listening and get this information right!
 
Disgusting - not just carb advice but also the suggested snacks! They put me off food rather than appealing, perhaps that's the point.
 
At first when I read it I though maybe there was something I didn’t know about how to handle blood sugar management for type 1.
But even for some one who doesn’t have type 1 or 2 this is awful advice.
Even before I was diagnosed I would have never eaten anything they suggested.
 
slip said:
I'm trying very very hard not to swear at this article.............

It is so bad, on so many levels..........oh £%#<!^& ¬£|| !
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Thanks for not giving me an ‘edit for profanity’ mod job! ;):joyful:
 
I just ran a toasted teacake with a banananana and a tablespoon of maple syrup through MyFitnessPal.

86g carbs of which 42g sugar.

:banghead:
 
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