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<blockquote data-quote="Karen Dwyer" data-source="post: 1784172" data-attributes="member: 473563"><p>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!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Karen Dwyer, post: 1784172, member: 473563"] 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! [/QUOTE]
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