Well yes! It's been said for a long time that sugar ages your mind and your body. I'm not talking about LCHF followers here, I'm talking magazine articles, TV programmes etc. OK on this forum we think of total carbs, not just sugars. I'm not sure about epilepsy as I don't know anything about it, but all the other conditions can be improved by reducing sugars. It's well known that cancer tumours feed on sugars. I read it in a daily newspaper years ago (no, not the Daily Mail I've never read it)
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Now the X-PERT advice is low carb, high fat
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Well yes! It's been said for a long time that sugar ages your mind and your body. I'm not talking about LCHF followers here, I'm talking magazine articles, TV programmes etc. OK on this forum we think of total carbs, not just sugars. I'm not sure about epilepsy as I don't know anything about it, but all the other conditions can be improved by reducing sugars. It's well known that cancer tumours feed on sugars. I read it in a daily newspaper years ago (no, not the Daily Mail I've never read it)
dannyw
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I somehow very much doubt you'll be impressed. It's clear you're looking for loopholes and flaws rather than accept LCHF is gaining momentum in this big world of diabetes. We'll see eh Douglas ?
And what about those people who did the original programme? If their diabetes progresses and they get devastating complications, after following the recommendations do they have a case for compensation claim against the programme providers?
NoCrbs4Me
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Well, it worked for me. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one on here that can say that.
sanguine
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Yes, 'beat the condition'. That's not the same as claiming a cure which is how you seem to want to interpret it. Reaching non-diabetic blood sugar levels while minimising meds isn't fanciful to me or many more on here.
I have seen a copy of this book and thought it was quite sensible In fact for a better look I will go to the book launch next Monday in Hebden Bridge and get one.
More anon
More anon
Epilepsy used to be widely treated in the early part of the twentieth century, before drugs were available, with a low carb high fat diet. It helped reduce the number and intensity of seizures. There's a fair amount of evidence banging about for this too.
donnellysdogs
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82% fat according to the Mail online article today!!
sally and james
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I'm waiting to see if the whole foolish edifice of low fat/high carb, especially for diabetics, will come tumbling down in the very near future. I doubt if Trudi Deakin is a foolish woman. If she wants to keep her business, my guess is that things will have been going on behind the scenes. She might even have been put up to it by the NICE/NHS or whatever, face saving for them, but allowing the obvious and essential to happen. Then again, the NHS/big pharma etc may already be rolling out the tanks and heavy weaponry to deal with a woman who has come across the truth and has had the moral courage to go with it. Interesting times.
Sally
Sally
Bluetit1802
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Blimey, she has gone really hardcore.
donnellysdogs
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Thank you for the link. I still can't manage to do it...x
However you look at it, if it hits the daily mail it means it will filter into public conciousness sooner rather than later. I suspect, as @sally and james has mentioned, there is more going on behind the scenes here.
From the perspective of a diabetic who was told to manage carb intake from the word go, and not given the eat what you like nonsense that appeared in the nineties, it hasn't come as a massive surprise...
From the perspective of a diabetic who was told to manage carb intake from the word go, and not given the eat what you like nonsense that appeared in the nineties, it hasn't come as a massive surprise...
Sid Bonkers
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Well I cant see the NHS ever recommending that anyone eats an 82% fat diet and personally I know I wouldnt want to eat such a diet.
My whole approach to diabetic control was to reduce my insulin resistance, and it worked, a high fat diet only increases insulin resistance so is not for me thanks, yuk..
My whole approach to diabetic control was to reduce my insulin resistance, and it worked, a high fat diet only increases insulin resistance so is not for me thanks, yuk..
dannyw
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You make it sound like a battle. "Thrown her hat into the ring", "head to head with the NHS", that's much of the problem here. It's not a them and us. I would be extremely surprised if the NHS are unaware of her new thinking or book. She won't lose her contract and she won't teach one thing whilst producing a book teaching the exact opposite. All that's happened is she has realised that for the majority ( I choose that word carefully ) of diabetics manage their condition much better on a LCHF regime. Simple.
dannyw
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And you probably never saw x-pert doing a complete 180 coming either. You never know what's round the corner. As for the 82%, it's only a recommendation, it's not law. I doubt if anyone stuck rigidly to the "eatable plate" either. Any diet will be adapted slightly to suit the individual. Stick with what works for you.
dannyw
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The eatable plate doesn't suit me. It may suit others. That doesn't make it a them & us or a battle. The eatable plate was never "thrown into the ring". It never went "head to head" with anything.
