My MP Just Knocked on my Door!

Rachox said:

Maybe she had that already

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Rachox said:

I just had my (labour) MP knock on my door canvassing.
I took the opportunity to ask her if she was aware of Tom Watson’s success with low carbing to control his diabetes. She was and said she had recently attended a meeting concerning Type 2 Diabetes, and low carbing was discussed including a GP who had introduced it in his practice, she couldn’t recall his name but when I suggested Dr Unwin she thought it was probably him.
She was very interested in my story too and the fact that DCUK’s Low Carb Program was now able to be prescribed by GPs. She took onboard the money saving aspect for the NHS and the reduction of the risk of complications for Type 2s. I pointed out that this approach went against NHS/NICE guidelines but was more and more proving to be effective.
She has promised to ask in PMQs about it all!

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Rachox said:

I just had my (labour) MP knock on my door canvassing.
I took the opportunity to ask her if she was aware of Tom Watson’s success with low carbing to control his diabetes. She was and said she had recently attended a meeting concerning Type 2 Diabetes, and low carbing was discussed including a GP who had introduced it in his practice, she couldn’t recall his name but when I suggested Dr Unwin she thought it was probably him.
She was very interested in my story too and the fact that DCUK’s Low Carb Program was now able to be prescribed by GPs. She took onboard the money saving aspect for the NHS and the reduction of the risk of complications for Type 2s. I pointed out that this approach went against NHS/NICE guidelines but was more and more proving to be effective.
She has promised to ask in PMQs about it all!

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Rachox said:

Oh that’s interesting but no, she’s West Oxford , my MP is Anneliese Dodds East Oxford.

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carol43 said:

Go Rachel Go.

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Md2t said:

Well done for getting your points across.

After a bit of a search a few years ago, I finally tracked down where and when my local MP would hold his next constituency surgery (in a corner of a local hotel bar). He listened patiently and even commented that the then Chancellor, George Osbourne, had lost a lot of weight through similar dietary changes. I never heard any further from him, not even when I followed up with dietary recommendations that I felt he could well have benefited from (although I tactfully refrained from mentioning his obvious central adiposity, combined with age and gender as potent indicators of metabolic syndrome). I also emailed Theresa May (then Home Secretary) and Keith Vaz, both openly diabetic MPs, but had no response from either, probably because my mails were filtered out without reaching them because I was not in their constituencies. An earlier email to the secretary of state for health just got a bland response from his office that they were acting according to the best evidence (that food and pharma money could buy?).

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Rachox said:

I just had my (labour) MP knock on my door canvassing.
I took the opportunity to ask her if she was aware of Tom Watson’s success with low carbing to control his diabetes. She was and said she had recently attended a meeting concerning Type 2 Diabetes, and low carbing was discussed including a GP who had introduced it in his practice, she couldn’t recall his name but when I suggested Dr Unwin she thought it was probably him.
She was very interested in my story too and the fact that DCUK’s Low Carb Program was now able to be prescribed by GPs. She took onboard the money saving aspect for the NHS and the reduction of the risk of complications for Type 2s. I pointed out that this approach went against NHS/NICE guidelines but was more and more proving to be effective.
She has promised to ask in PMQs about it all!

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Rachox said:

In haste as just off out but I had an email from Anneliese’s office:

“Dear Rachel

Anneliese asked that I write to thank you for the recent discussion about diabetes treatment.

Anneliese said that she enjoyed the conversation and was very pleased that only a matter of days after it, we had the welcome news that a trial of weight loss treatment will be expanded - https://www.theguardian.com/society...w-calorie-diets-in-hope-of-reversing-diabetes

Anneliese recognises that this is different to the Mediterranean, low-carb diet that Tom Watson has followed, but that she notes that Tom welcomes this news and hopes that it signals that the NHS is starting to move towards a much better recognition of the role of diet in relation to Type 2 diabetes and the fact that a better diet can in some cases reverse the diabetes diagnosis.
Best wishes.....”

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Bluetit1802 said:

I was reading in the paper today that an Oxford labour MP (Layla something or other) has outed herself as having had bariatric surgery in the past. I was just wondering if this is your MP??

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