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<blockquote data-quote="Taliesin" data-source="post: 1590716" data-attributes="member: 233051"><p>Sadly that doesn't always work... I was in hospital with Fanconi's syndrome and severe malnutrition five years ago. One symptom of Fanconi's is distorted thinking, and though I'd had the sense to stop taking my gliclazide thinking that my carbs intake wasn't high enough to justify it, one of my delusions was that a litre of fruit juice and a pot of yogurt were an adequate diet. I'd lost all joy in food, both in terms of eating and cooking (previously a serious hobby). My joy in food has never returned. The consultant, the dietitian and my GP all agreed that I should be supplementing with Ensure, and didn't blink an eye when Ensure became my only source of food. Well, not until my BG hit (old numbers) 29...</p><p></p><p>My last a1c was (new numbers) 56. In the past year since I started eating Huel I've had doctors and the diabetes nurse dismiss it as faddy nonsense. I've had to change hospitals due to moving, but at my last visit to my old hospital the dietitian I like was back from maternity leave - she actually went to the Huel website, and read through it muttering "well they can't have included... bloody hell, they have!" over and again. If I need to be in hospital again, I fully intend ignoring what I described to the consultant in 2012 as "nutrition-free garbage, designed to give the illusion of having eaten, that the worst transport caff would be ashamed to serve up" (I think I was still a little disinhibited when I said that), and taking my own food with me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Taliesin, post: 1590716, member: 233051"] Sadly that doesn't always work... I was in hospital with Fanconi's syndrome and severe malnutrition five years ago. One symptom of Fanconi's is distorted thinking, and though I'd had the sense to stop taking my gliclazide thinking that my carbs intake wasn't high enough to justify it, one of my delusions was that a litre of fruit juice and a pot of yogurt were an adequate diet. I'd lost all joy in food, both in terms of eating and cooking (previously a serious hobby). My joy in food has never returned. The consultant, the dietitian and my GP all agreed that I should be supplementing with Ensure, and didn't blink an eye when Ensure became my only source of food. Well, not until my BG hit (old numbers) 29... My last a1c was (new numbers) 56. In the past year since I started eating Huel I've had doctors and the diabetes nurse dismiss it as faddy nonsense. I've had to change hospitals due to moving, but at my last visit to my old hospital the dietitian I like was back from maternity leave - she actually went to the Huel website, and read through it muttering "well they can't have included... bloody hell, they have!" over and again. If I need to be in hospital again, I fully intend ignoring what I described to the consultant in 2012 as "nutrition-free garbage, designed to give the illusion of having eaten, that the worst transport caff would be ashamed to serve up" (I think I was still a little disinhibited when I said that), and taking my own food with me. [/QUOTE]
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