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<blockquote data-quote="Jay-Marc" data-source="post: 1325011" data-attributes="member: 327284"><p>Hospitals have always and still do serve rubbish food and they are especially poor dealing with the ongoing needs of people with diabetes, whether they take insulin or not. My uncle who developed diabetes after a stroke and spent long periods moving in and out of hospital would have died years (if not decades) before he did if his wife wasn't with him nearly all day whilst he was in hospital dealing with his insulin regime and food, supplementing and replacing as necessary what was provided. This was maybe a level of care that a general hospital is just not equipped to do on a one-to-one basis even on a needs-assessed basis.</p><p></p><p>A low carb diet is the most obvious and simplistic response to diabetes (especially type 2) - stop eating what the body can't cope with. There have been many periods over the years where other diets have been tried mostly ones allowing use of significant amounts of starchy carb of one form or another but none as I see it have been as effective overall, at least with a minimum of drugs in addition. Like any treatment it won't suit everyone as each human body is not a uniform machine cast from the same mold.</p><p></p><p>I do have some sympathy at times with individual GPs who seem under much greater pressure these days than in the past - 10 minutes is just not long enough for a standard appointment for someone with a number of chronic issues. My first 2 GPs still came from an older time (pre NHS, at least in training terms) where they didn't care how long they spent with each patient as long as it was enough. You might have needed to wait, but you felt you were being dealt with as an individual rather than almost being dealt with by choices on flow chart. Those doctors probably wouldn't survive in today's NHS.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jay-Marc, post: 1325011, member: 327284"] Hospitals have always and still do serve rubbish food and they are especially poor dealing with the ongoing needs of people with diabetes, whether they take insulin or not. My uncle who developed diabetes after a stroke and spent long periods moving in and out of hospital would have died years (if not decades) before he did if his wife wasn't with him nearly all day whilst he was in hospital dealing with his insulin regime and food, supplementing and replacing as necessary what was provided. This was maybe a level of care that a general hospital is just not equipped to do on a one-to-one basis even on a needs-assessed basis. A low carb diet is the most obvious and simplistic response to diabetes (especially type 2) - stop eating what the body can't cope with. There have been many periods over the years where other diets have been tried mostly ones allowing use of significant amounts of starchy carb of one form or another but none as I see it have been as effective overall, at least with a minimum of drugs in addition. Like any treatment it won't suit everyone as each human body is not a uniform machine cast from the same mold. I do have some sympathy at times with individual GPs who seem under much greater pressure these days than in the past - 10 minutes is just not long enough for a standard appointment for someone with a number of chronic issues. My first 2 GPs still came from an older time (pre NHS, at least in training terms) where they didn't care how long they spent with each patient as long as it was enough. You might have needed to wait, but you felt you were being dealt with as an individual rather than almost being dealt with by choices on flow chart. Those doctors probably wouldn't survive in today's NHS. [/QUOTE]
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