Having recently received my new Balance magazine I note that advice and articles simply present totally confusing messages.
I like many others being a long term diabetic from a family of "diabetics" I have seen a whole range of differing advice given to us from the so called "experts"/health professionals.
Some months ago we were being encouraged to follow new diets with the advice that healthy/low fat products should be avoided at all costs and that we should concentrate on basing our diets around "natural/unprocessed" foods - echoes of the advise given to us in the 60s & 70s.
Over the same period the targets for blood glucose levels have dropped and are now being challenged again as are the interpretation of what is the impact of our condition on our ability to live a normal life.
In this months Balance - Fad or Fiction (p48/49) - the advice given relating "Butter is better" is totally at variance to that given previously by your own team.
Can you wonder why people are confused - my own experience suggests that a good many so called "healthy options" are far from it especially relating to sugar content.
How many young people are being condemned to a lifetime of taking damaging medication simply because diabetes now seems to be the route to simply making money out of our condition - from GPs benefiting by numbers identified to the vast range of meters, so called specialist foods and treatments as well as experts all making a living out of giving advice.
Too many health professionals immediately resort to prescribing medication rather than exploring alternatives as they used to. Not speculation on my part but detailed knowledge of actual cases.
Please ensure that the advice that you give is consistent if you genuinely want to help us. Of course over time advice changes and develops but not so drastically in a couple of months.
I like many others being a long term diabetic from a family of "diabetics" I have seen a whole range of differing advice given to us from the so called "experts"/health professionals.
Some months ago we were being encouraged to follow new diets with the advice that healthy/low fat products should be avoided at all costs and that we should concentrate on basing our diets around "natural/unprocessed" foods - echoes of the advise given to us in the 60s & 70s.
Over the same period the targets for blood glucose levels have dropped and are now being challenged again as are the interpretation of what is the impact of our condition on our ability to live a normal life.
In this months Balance - Fad or Fiction (p48/49) - the advice given relating "Butter is better" is totally at variance to that given previously by your own team.
Can you wonder why people are confused - my own experience suggests that a good many so called "healthy options" are far from it especially relating to sugar content.
How many young people are being condemned to a lifetime of taking damaging medication simply because diabetes now seems to be the route to simply making money out of our condition - from GPs benefiting by numbers identified to the vast range of meters, so called specialist foods and treatments as well as experts all making a living out of giving advice.
Too many health professionals immediately resort to prescribing medication rather than exploring alternatives as they used to. Not speculation on my part but detailed knowledge of actual cases.
Please ensure that the advice that you give is consistent if you genuinely want to help us. Of course over time advice changes and develops but not so drastically in a couple of months.
