Defren said:
Strips and education are one thing, but I would rather no strips if the education was the dietary advice given out now. What's the point of strips and carbs with every meal? All readings will be sky high. Strips with low carb education, or at least low carb options, and the challenge to see the difference, yes! Even if we were only given the low carb education and strips for 6 months, how many thousands would benefit from that?
That was the real crux of the petition, which was:-
1) Strips for all
2) Education with the strips, otherwise no point
3) Limited supply after a while, to compromise and avoid costs being too high.
On the petition, you can't go into the detail you'd like about carbs etc as you have to keep it short. You also have to be a bit political, and not sound unreasonable in your demands etc. But in essence, what we're asking for is strips for a few quarters while the T2 works out their eating plan, with proper input on HOW to work out their eating plan, then just a limited supply (unless they are on drugs that can cause hypos, insulin etc) to test any new foods now and again and to ensure things aren't changing (progressing)
Comparitively minimal costs to avoid the future large ones incurred by todays typical T2 (not the ones on this forum, I do believe that we're not typical because of our knowledge from shared wisdom and our approach)