The problem here is - and I have experienced this TODAY - dietitians/specialist nurses will tell you what they are told to tell you. If that conflicts with what YOU tell them you KNOW works, they assume you are lying. (I was told today that the brain CANNOT function without carbs to fuel it, and that NOT eating carbs wil make you deficient in AT LEAST Vits. B1 & B2).
The brain needs a certain amount of glucose to function, wherever it gets it from.
The best sources of Vitamin B1 are yeasts and liver. The following foods are good sources of Vitamin B1:
* Pork
* Whole-grain cereals
* Rye and whole-wheat flour
* Wheat germ
* Navy beans and kidney beans
Women should have 1.1 milligrams every day, and men should have 1.5 milligrams every day.
Vitamin B2 is found in most plant and animal tissues.
Milk, eggs and dairy products such as yogurt and cheese are excellent sources of Vitamin B2 as are leafy green vegetables, avocado, broccoli and asparagus. Enriched and whole grains and cereals are other good sources and so are nuts, legumes, soybeans and mushrooms. Fruits, organ meats (liver, kidney and the heart) and fish contain ample amounts of Vitamin B2 as well.
So I wouldn't think you would be short of that !
Seems to me like they've done all the learning they are going to do, and are not willing to listen when you tell them what you've learned from living with this 24hrs/365days a year. Any dietitian that claims to know more than me about my contrl is ignorant and deluded.
To be fair, Patch, HCP's only go on evidence based research, not anecdotal evidence. What is needed is some good solid peer reviewed and verifiable research on the subject and this is just not happening yet. If you are a well controlled diabetic and know that what works for you works then keep on doing it. You know your body better than them, but for a newly diagnosed Diabetics then they have to have some guidelines to begin with until they to become more experienced in their own care.
Until there is a radical re-think by the specialists/experts, we're just gonna have to continue to take personal responsibility for our diabetes management. After all, they can only make suggestions to us - we are in charge of our own treatment.
We all need to take personal responsibility for our own Diabetes care, but we all needed a little help in the beginning.