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<blockquote data-quote="librarising" data-source="post: 320304" data-attributes="member: 41957"><p>Here's why many here don't follow NHS guidelines</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>We feel diabetics should be aiming for HbA1cs in the 5s or low 6s. To allow nearly three quarters of T2s to have an HbA1c of 6.5 or over is, in our minds, scandalous.</p><p>We believe it's all caused because they hold on to their 'meals based around starchy carbs' line. Carbs push up blood sugar.</p><p>Reducing carbs reduces blood sugar spikes, and HbA1cs go down. There are loads of success stories on this forum from people using low-carb as a treatment option. They often reduce or eliminate their reliance on medication.</p><p>Carb restriction was used 100 years ago. Unfortunately saturated fat came to be demonised :</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.dietheartpublishing.com/diet-heart-timeline" target="_blank">http://www.dietheartpublishing.com/diet-heart-timeline</a></p><p></p><p>and if fats were reduced something had to take their place - enter so-called 'healthy' carbs and vegetable oils, and the health crisis we have today.</p><p></p><p>The NHS line is that diabetes is progressive. Low-carbers believe that their dietary approach holds it in check, but that a carbs-based diet with its necessary medication will make it progressive, or harder to control.</p><p>Not all low-carbers are happy to go high fat, but there is little evidence to suggest that saturated fat is bad for you, and increasingly people are coming out saying that all the concern about cholesterol is misled.</p><p></p><p>I have researched current understanding virtually every day since my diagnosis (Nov '11) and can remember reading "saturated fat is good for you" and thinking that can't be right. I've now ditched vegetable oils, upped my fat intake, and</p><p>eat plenty of meat, eggs, animal fats etc.</p><p></p><p>As regards cholesterol, carbs are the worst thing for affecting them, and adjusting your lipid profile badly (HDL, LDL, triglycerides)</p><p></p><p>I'll end there before you suffer from information overload.</p><p></p><p>Geoff</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="librarising, post: 320304, member: 41957"] Here's why many here don't follow NHS guidelines We feel diabetics should be aiming for HbA1cs in the 5s or low 6s. To allow nearly three quarters of T2s to have an HbA1c of 6.5 or over is, in our minds, scandalous. We believe it's all caused because they hold on to their 'meals based around starchy carbs' line. Carbs push up blood sugar. Reducing carbs reduces blood sugar spikes, and HbA1cs go down. There are loads of success stories on this forum from people using low-carb as a treatment option. They often reduce or eliminate their reliance on medication. Carb restriction was used 100 years ago. Unfortunately saturated fat came to be demonised : [url=http://www.dietheartpublishing.com/diet-heart-timeline]http://www.dietheartpublishing.com/diet-heart-timeline[/url] and if fats were reduced something had to take their place - enter so-called 'healthy' carbs and vegetable oils, and the health crisis we have today. The NHS line is that diabetes is progressive. Low-carbers believe that their dietary approach holds it in check, but that a carbs-based diet with its necessary medication will make it progressive, or harder to control. Not all low-carbers are happy to go high fat, but there is little evidence to suggest that saturated fat is bad for you, and increasingly people are coming out saying that all the concern about cholesterol is misled. I have researched current understanding virtually every day since my diagnosis (Nov '11) and can remember reading "saturated fat is good for you" and thinking that can't be right. I've now ditched vegetable oils, upped my fat intake, and eat plenty of meat, eggs, animal fats etc. As regards cholesterol, carbs are the worst thing for affecting them, and adjusting your lipid profile badly (HDL, LDL, triglycerides) I'll end there before you suffer from information overload. Geoff [/QUOTE]
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