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<blockquote data-quote="seadragon" data-source="post: 1024541" data-attributes="member: 195124"><p>Good luck with the changes - it is well worth it. I think you will find plenty of people here who have been eating LCHF for a long time and find it easy enough to sustain - especially with the motivation of how much better and healthier they are as a result.</p><p></p><p>The easy answer to your GP friend is 'because it doesn't work for diabetics!" And it doesn't. Diabetes is effectively a carb intolerance. I doubt they'd tell someone allergic to shellfish to eat more shellfish so why try to make diabetics (who have a bad reaction to carbs), eat more carbs - it is demonstrably crazy.</p><p></p><p>How many diabetics following the eat well plate have got better? I'd wager exactly none. How many following the LCHF way of eating have got better? - plenty! And in the old days before insulin it was the only way for Type 1 diabetics to survive at all. Your friend may not be up to date - even Trudi Deakin who I believe was instrumental in devising the Eatwell plate or at least ran classes for diabetics based on it, has changed her mind and has written a book called 'Eat Fat' - maybe time to suggest some reading to your GP friend and help spread the message. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Edited to add - I highly recommend taking a look at the dietdoctor.com website. Lots of good advice about LCHF and its effects on weight loss and diabetes and run by a Swedish doctor (in Sweden they have adopted the LCHF as a better alternative to their version of the Eatwell plate). Much of the info is free.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="seadragon, post: 1024541, member: 195124"] Good luck with the changes - it is well worth it. I think you will find plenty of people here who have been eating LCHF for a long time and find it easy enough to sustain - especially with the motivation of how much better and healthier they are as a result. The easy answer to your GP friend is 'because it doesn't work for diabetics!" And it doesn't. Diabetes is effectively a carb intolerance. I doubt they'd tell someone allergic to shellfish to eat more shellfish so why try to make diabetics (who have a bad reaction to carbs), eat more carbs - it is demonstrably crazy. How many diabetics following the eat well plate have got better? I'd wager exactly none. How many following the LCHF way of eating have got better? - plenty! And in the old days before insulin it was the only way for Type 1 diabetics to survive at all. Your friend may not be up to date - even Trudi Deakin who I believe was instrumental in devising the Eatwell plate or at least ran classes for diabetics based on it, has changed her mind and has written a book called 'Eat Fat' - maybe time to suggest some reading to your GP friend and help spread the message. :) Edited to add - I highly recommend taking a look at the dietdoctor.com website. Lots of good advice about LCHF and its effects on weight loss and diabetes and run by a Swedish doctor (in Sweden they have adopted the LCHF as a better alternative to their version of the Eatwell plate). Much of the info is free. [/QUOTE]
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