This forum "v" The NHS (sort of)

[donnellysdogs]

I keep wondering if low carb proven for decades to work why has not more diabetics reversed their diabetes?
An excellent liver detox the lchf but I'm finding my body needs wholewheat for heart health.
I will be using lchf for liver health but not constantly. Heart health, for me has to come first. I can liver with a clogged up liver intermittently but I'm not prepared to risk heart health, even for a short while!
40yrs of diabetic symptoms takes its toll, no matter which diet I'm on. Inflammation taking hold, even on lchf?
So nhs cannot win whichever diet it recommends. So I guess they stick with a tried and tested average healthy one? They spend thousands on supplying insulin to those in need to convert carbs into energy.
I'd feel a bit ungrareful throwing it back in their face. Thank god for the nhs. Lets not run it down. It has saved my life a few times now. I cannot knock its help!

Please look up the leading cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra. He does not advocate whole wheat at all!!

Please, please if you have facebook or google, please look at what he is saying. He is one leading Cardiologist that is sticking his head above the parapet and does so much work outside of his normal day job to try and spread the word that carbs are emoty value....

 

[Terryrhino]

@donnellysdogs this is a very interesting read thank you
http://www.menshealth.co.uk/food-nutrition/the-truth-about-fat-and-sugar-is-finally-explained

 

[donnellysdogs]

@donnellysdogs this is a very interesting read thank you
http://www.menshealth.co.uk/food-nutrition/the-truth-about-fat-and-sugar-is-finally-explained

Thanks very much for that article.'

The thing about Aseem is that he honestly tells you of his journey and why he thinks the way he does. Not many professionals open up about any research or training they have undertaken after being qualified.

 

[Robbity]

Claude Bernard 1813-1878 used to lecture on the subject in Paris. A Dr. William Harvey attended a lecture and brought the idea back to England. One of his patients was a William Banting who wrote of his experiences on what later became known as the Banting diet.

And as early as 1797 John Rollo, a Royal Artillery surgeon, was treating (a couple of) diabetic patients with a low carb diet. It's nothing new and was well known as a treatment in the pre insulin era.

It's only in the last 30-40 years that we've been wrongly persuaded to eat low fat high carb diets, and seen the increases in obesity and diabetes.

Robbity

 

[JohnEGreen]

Please look up the leading cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra. He does not advocate whole wheat at all!!

Neither does Dr. William Davis cardiologist and author of the Wheatbelly books. His web page is well worth a visit.

http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/

 

[Resurgam]

Having read the various sections on here, I am pretty sure I used to be hypoglycaemic at school - fifty years ago. I was certainly close to collapse a couple of times in my 20s, and then I began to low carb. I found Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution after that, and when I stuck to eating low carb foods I was fine. Now I have a meter I know that potato pushes up my BG levels and it stays up for hours. At least I've got to be 65 years old in fairly good health - or at least reparably so.