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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Japes" data-source="post: 1330809" data-attributes="member: 277410">I had a very depressing conversation with a student nurse recently who was earnestly encouraging me to follow the NHS advice (after a 2 day training course) "As you NEED some carbs" and "There's no need to completely give up foods you like.". This was after seeing me refuse cake, biscuits, and chocolate. Also after telling me her mum was Type 2, with complications, and she herself was expecting to follow in her mum's footsteps in about 15 years time given her blood pressure, weight and BMI all of which, along with hereditary factors, put her as high risk. I pointed out I preferred to keep my limbs and eyesight, if at all possible, and frankly, after years of eating a "healthy diet" of the current kind of recommendations, cutting carbs to an absolute minimum was working for me and I seemed to have lost my taste for sweet things along the way... She was still having none of it, so I terminated the conversation and will be making sure I do my lunch time checks out of her sight from now on.</blockquote>

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