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Online low carb course substantially improves doctors type 2 diabetes knowledge

To be honest, besides helping transition from permanent glycolysis to lipolysis, high fat ingestion isn’t necessarily optimal, particularly if you have weight to lose. I’m built like Bruce Lee (or Mr. Muscle depending on the mirror :shifty:) so I have to drink fat through a garden hose just to stay alive, but the average person can afford to allow the body to lean more on stored fat for fuel rather than dietary fat. Obviously at some stage it will all balance out.
 
Of the two GPs I have had conversations about LCHF, Dr A’s focus has been on low carb with only slighter reservations on high fat, whilst Doctor B had bigger reservations about high fat. Both agreed on the low carb bit.
 
Jim Lahey said:
To be honest, besides helping transition from permanent glycolysis to lipolysis, high fat ingestion isn’t necessarily optimal, particularly if you have weight to lose. I’m built like Bruce Lee (or Mr. Muscle depending on the mirror :shifty:) so I have to drink fat through a garden hose just to stay alive, but the average person can afford to allow the body to lean more on stored fat for fuel rather than dietary fat. Obviously at some stage it will all balance out.
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There is the question of satiety, though. Hunger does drive.
 
The ever ongoing fear of fat is or might be holding a lot of folk back, including medics. Even here in the forum there are members who sometimes understandably show reluctance to try a higher amount of healthy fats esp when lipids are mentioned. I suppose the slowly, slowly catchee monkey approach is less scary and if great results are seen quickly then the intricacies can come later if desired or needed.
 
Guzzler said:
There is the question of satiety, though. Hunger does drive.
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Sure, but once over the initial switch to regular and sustained lipolysis, the body will tend to lean more toward oxidising stored fat and should, in theory, use those calories instead of making you hungry. I know you know this already, but just clarifying my point further.
 
Those e-learning things do nothing other than tick a CNST (if it still exists) box.
Of course awareness is raised at the end of it but try testing again in six months.
 
Jim Lahey said:
Sure, but once over the initial switch to regular and sustained lipolysis, the body will tend to lean more toward oxidising stored fat and should, in theory, use those calories instead of making you hungry. I know you know this already, but just clarifying my point further.
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Aye, it took me a good few weeks to distinguish real hunger from carb cravings and the munchies. But if I'm honest, the first few wobbles I had were down to this false hunger that the modern western diet drives.
 
wiflib said:
Those e-learning things do nothing other than tick a CNST (if it still exists) box.
Of course awareness is raised at the end of it but try testing again in six months.
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I can vouch for that. Seen the method used elsewhere.
 
Listlad said:
I can vouch for that. Seen the method used elsewhere.
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We had to do it all the time when I was still working as a Midwife. Elderly awareness, data protection, blood transfusion (I gave one in 25 years of practice) and other stuff vaguely resembling something I did in my job. Saved them paying for trainers and we are disciplined if we don’t do it.
 
wiflib said:
We had to do it all the time when I was still working as a Midwife. Elderly awareness, data protection, blood transfusion (I gave one in 25 years of practice) and other stuff vaguely resembling something I did in my job. Saved them paying for trainers and we are disciplined if we don’t do it.
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Ha. Yes. And nobody remembered a thing about the content the following day?
 
Trying to be optimistic though if they remember nothing more than low carb for diabetes is ok to do according to the NHS and even helpful for us it’d be an improvement on the current situation
 
Well as far as I am concerned high fat was the key to making low carb work for me.
 
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