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Agree but at least in Canada you have the fantastic Jason Fung to counter the orthodox wisdom!
Agree but at least in Canada you have the fantastic Jason Fung to counter the orthodox wisdom!I have a feeling that you meant to address HR-Guy, and not me, as he is the one who posted the original comment about his office colleague who says she's "doing just fine" with her diabetes. In any case, I completely agree with you that most newly-diagnosed diabetics know absolutely nothing about the condition and are given very little guidance by their doctors and other medical personnel. It upsets me to think of the poor couple you mentioned where the wife is trying very hard to help her husband by feeding him a pasta dish. Obviously nobody told her that pasta is one of the worst foods a diabetic person can eat! When I was first diagnosed, I thought I simply had to cut out sugar from my diet; I had no idea that ALL carbohydrates turn to glucose once they hit your digestive system. As I mentioned in another thread, one medium-sized baked potato is the equivalent of eating 3 heaped tablespoons of table sugar, but very few diabetics are given that kind of information. I think the medical profession (and the various national Diabetes Associations have a lot to answer for. I read many years ago that the main source of funding for the Canadian Diabetes Association is 17 pharmaceutical companies so they are obviously not going to fund studies that might prove that diabetics don't need many of the drugs they manufacture!
Hi @Karen Dwyer - the one thing Napoleon could not change, which Pythagoras realised, was that pitch in music is related to length of pipe or string. It so happens that even in his own country, all French organ stops are defined in Feet, not Centimetres, because an octave is exactly 1ft different in pipe length. We cannot completely venerate Metric!You've brought up something that I am very resentful of about the US. Years ago, they announced that they were planning to switch to the metric system. The Canadian government then announced that Canada had no choice but to change to the metric system too as the U.S. is our major trading partner. So Canada went ahead and made the change and then the U.S. changed its mind and never did make the change. I was a young woman who had been brought up with the imperial system, and did not have a very scientific kind of a mind, and I had a terrible time learning to deal with some aspects of the metric system - to this day, if I shop for two pounds of meat, I don't have any idea of the weight in kg. and have to ask the butcher! Temperatures, sizes, and distances I've begrudgingly learned to deal with! I know you're absolutely right in saying that the metric sense makes a lot more sense, but allow me my old lady biases. I'm coming around, slowly but surely!
You've brought up something that I am very resentful of about the US. Years ago, they announced that they were planning to switch to the metric system. The Canadian government then announced that Canada had no choice but to change to the metric system too as the U.S. is our major trading partner. So Canada went ahead and made the change and then the U.S. changed its mind and never did make the change. I was a young woman who had been brought up with the imperial system, and did not have a very scientific kind of a mind, and I had a terrible time learning to deal with some aspects of the metric system - to this day, if I shop for two pounds of meat, I don't have any idea of the weight in kg. and have to ask the butcher! Temperatures, sizes, and distances I've begrudgingly learned to deal with! I know you're absolutely right in saying that the metric sense makes a lot more sense, but allow me my old lady biases. I'm coming around, slowly but surely!
I have found a diabetic version, https://www.ibreatheimhungry.com/general-tsos-chicken-wings/print/15676/General Tso's has sugar in the coating of the chicken
The standard international measure of blood glucose levels is millimoles per liter (mmol/l) but for some reason the US is different; it uses mg/dl (and I can't remember what that stands for). But it's very simple to convert - just multiply or divide by 18. So if an American says their BG reading was 126, for example, divide that by 18 and you know that in "our" numbers he means 7. Multiply by 18 if you want to convert from American to international numbers. I can just about do it in my sleep now, particularly since my late American husband still used his American glucometer after he moved to Canada to marry me! (We met on Dr. Bernstein's website!)
I don't think I understand the second part of your question. A large part of Dr. Bernstein's book is available free on the Internet. I don't remember how to find it, but I'll find the link for you when I have time - probably tomorrow - and let you know. Is that the kind of thing you're looking for?
I'm not coming around to it. I think in imperial. A kilometer could be in the next street or in the next county!
None that I'm aware of Petaluk. I do have some serious heart problems - I have two mechanical valves and a pacemaker in my heart - but they're nothing to do with my diabetes, but were caused by having had undiagnosed and therefore untreated rheumatic fever as a teenager.QUOTE="Petaluk, post: 1783982, member: 472096"]@Karen Dwyer I hope you don’t mind me asking, but I am curious as to if you have had any diabetic related complications in the last 17 years? Many thanks
Thank you, would you mind sharing a typical days food and carbohydrates/fat rate with us all please? Thank you!I had a real problem with losing weight when I first started my low-carb diet, so much so that friends started worrying that I had an eating disorder. That seemed to stabilize after a few months. I gained some of that weight back and have stayed the same for many years now - I'm 5 feet 61/2 inches tall and weigh about 120 pounds.
Thank you, would you mind sharing a typical days food and carbohydrates/fat rate with us all please? Thank you!
I personally am at the stage where I am on LCHF or medium fat diet as I have a lot of weight to lose, but it is coming off. @Guzzler recent post was an eye opener, as I haven’t thought what happens after you reach your target weight and you still follow a LCHF diet. The link is here https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/have-to-admit-defeat.147066/
Your input would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you, would you mind sharing a typical days food and carbohydrates/fat rate with us all please? Thank you!
I personally am at the stage where I am on LCHF or medium fat diet as I have a lot of weight to lose, but it is coming off. @Guzzler recent post was an eye opener, as I haven’t thought what happens after you reach your target weight and you still follow a LCHF diet. The link is here https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/have-to-admit-defeat.147066/
Your input would be greatly appreciated!
I just meant, is it worth buying the book if it has the same information already available on this site. The more I read the more I realise is that it is best that everything is cooked from scratch.
Only if she/he is highly IR. Some type2s are prediabetic or aren't so highly insulin resistant.If the medication is not keeping her sugars artificially low then how come her sugars are okay, she said the db nurse said they are fine but with the carbs she is eating her sugars should be higher.
Is she overweight by much.Oh update on friend at work. She let me test her today, before breakfast @ 9:51 8.2, 1 hour later @ 10:51 9.3, her breakfast was a large (poss about 400ml) of greek yogurt, blackberries and I think strawberries. Lunch was a salad with boiled eggs and a sugar free, zero carb dressing 6.6 pre lunch, 1hr post 6.7.
She saw her doctor yesterday and she told him about me and he told her not do what I was doing, asked if I had sought any medical help, then offered her a referral to a gastric band program aimed at diabetics.
Yes, she is very short and like a little barrel.Is she overweight by much.
You have no idea of how angry it makes me to hear about doctors like her doctor who refuse to even consider that they might be wrong about their negativity to managing diabetes with a low-carb diet. My own family doctor was very disapproving 27 years ago when I first started it. He still won/t say that he has changed his mind, but he has told me that I'm by far his best-managed diabetic patient, so I don't press him to admit that he was wrong!
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