Osidge said:
Indy.
In the light of the earlier exaggerated statement on the problems of medication, perhaps you would like to give us the evidence that backs up your beliefs on the long-term use of very low carb diets. Can you point us in the direction of the studies that the American Diabetes Association do not appear to know about. Confusion between purely personal views and evidence based views is not helpful.
Regards
Doug
All I said about medication was as follows:
Indy51 said:
It's really quite easy for those of us not on insulin as hypoglycaemia isn't an issue for the most part - and even for type 2 diabetics on insulin, the dosage can be modified to suit the amount of carbs, especially if you have a doctors help.
Not everyone wants to take medications when there is an another solution to their problem, especially since we'd then have to deal with hypoglycaemia, injections and all sorts of other issues that insulin dependant diabetics face.
Personal choice until we don't have any other choice but to take medication.
Can you please point out exactly what I've said is "exaggerated"? I've seen many posts at this and various other forums about the issues Type 1s have, just as an example, with carrying their equipment everywhere they go, being barred entry to places because they're carrying hypodermics (ridiculous of course but there's a post on this forum about that very subject), adjusting their insulin dosage to avoid hypos and many other issues, including the psychological.
I applaud anyone who manages their diabetes successfully, no matter how they do it. If my type 2 progresses to the stage where I can no longer control it with diet, I will be seeing my GP about medication because I firmly believe that stable BG levels are the key to successully living with diabetes. If I implied that I think there's anything wrong with taking medication, I'm very sorry, but that was certainly not my intent.
I'm not going to write a screed citing all sorts of research because I don't have the time or the incination. If you really want that sort of detail, I'd suggest you do some research on pubmed or read the book 'The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living' by Drs Volek & Phinney:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Science-C ... ate+living
And frankly, to me Dr Bernstein at his advanced age after following his own principles of low carbohydrate BG/insulin dosage control is more 'living proof' than any amount of research can prove or dispute.
I think I'm done with this thread now. My apologies if I've offended anyone.