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This is my husband's consultant!!!

I get the same result
 
Try googling Simpson and high carbohydrate diet. I've downloaded it and written my critique on it. Mainly looking at the high HbA1cs they got. Well above NICE guidelines.
 
Just looked at the conclusions - no wonder you don't have much regard for this a****ole !! I wonder how you manage to stay calm if this his take on things.

Oh, BTW. I did have to trawl through someone called Homer Simpson....Doh !
Maybe that's where he got his theory from. :lol:
 
Well, he is my consulatant as well. I did see him every 2 weeks when I was pregnant, and not once did he mention diet.....more the have a set amount of insulin regardless approach. Every fortnight he would tweak my insulin levels. I did manage good control though...not sure whether this was becasue of him, or despite him.
I am not a low carbere myself...but I do listen to teh evidence, and I just wish that effort would be put into the investigating the low carb approach. the rsults achieved by people on this forum seem excellent, and I keep saying that I should give it a go! Just need to take the plunge.
Does anyone have any tips for family meals on a low carb diet? I can't just feed myself...but my hubby and kids too :?:
 
Hi sugar2.

As a lo-carber myself I think it's great. There are loads of excellent tasty foods you AND your family can eat. I have never eaten better in my life.
Look around the DIABETIC FOOD and LO-CARB sections here. I'm sure people will throw recipies and stuff at you once they see your post.
there are other alternatives that you may also consider. My diet is a combo lo-carb/low fat/low GI/ low salt - works great for me !!
Not sure - just ask. Somebody will have the answer for you.

Ken
 
Not sure if I'm looking at the right document. I Googled as suggested and found a 7 page document entitled "High-carbohydrate, high-fibre diets for diabetics". Is that the one? If so I can see a publication date of 1981, so would probably ignore the content. Not many things from the 1980s stand up to 21st century examination! Hope that's not being too flippant...
 
Kegstore ....... Unfortunatley Mr Ancel Keyes doctrine is still going very strong. But perhaps im being a bit harsh, it is doing wonders for the membership of this and like minded sites

Next please
 
Hi Keg!
That's the only one by simpson H. I can find.
Sugar. He also did the "feed the insulin " thing for T1, which is why he's in the mess he's in now.
Oh how I wish, I'd known 30 years ago what I know now! I wouldn't be fighting Reading traffic and the Royal Berks Hospital carparking Twice a day.
Tomorrow afternoon, I'll go on the bus and then walk about a mile from the bus stop. I couldn't be bothered to change buses.
 
hana - 30 years ago you will remember we only had urine tests, blood results 2 weeks later and no hbas done at all . Diabetes has moved on . However I have to say that during that period in the 80s carb counting was very strict . I cannot remember ever using more than 250g CHO for very active manual workers. Newbies you dont know how lucky you are now!
 
Hi Ally, you might be interested in the paper then, because the 30 people who took part in the trial did have HbA1c done All were higher than current NICE guidelines. And they did some finger stick tests too.
It's scientifically not a good study, because the high carb and high fibre are lumped together and only percentages of carbs are given, NO quantities of food and NO menus.
At one point it even says that they don't recommend the diet long term.
 
tbh hana its not worth looking at the paper its too old .

I could only find the short version so cant tell how many carbs.
 
Given what we know has been quite a dramatic series of changes in the management of this condition in the last 30 years, in so many different ways, I'm amazed that a new study has not been commissioned. I would be horrified to think that any medical team were handing out advice based on a study that dates from the year before I was even diagnosed?! Hana at least you're forewarned of the mindset you're dealing with?!
 
Yes Keg
I had a run-in with this consultant 25 years ago. He knew everything then and hasn't learned a thing since. I have been told that he CARES about his patients. I think that's damning him with faint praise.
 
maybe u dont like him but many might - consultants dont please everyone!

You may appear the same way to him !
 
I know several ofhis patients and they don't rate him as a diabetologist. He's personable enough.
 
hana - thats not enough to make him a bad guy - im not sticking up for him but its too emotional.
 
Ally have read the article ........ So its all right to say carbs are healthy and sorry you got fat as long as you say it nicely, is that it ??

Dave P
 
Simpson, H. C. R., Simpson, R. W., Lousley, S., Carter, R. D., Geekie, M., Hockaday, T. D. R. &
Southgate, D. A. T. (1973). Proc. Nutr. Soc. 32, 131 .
A high carbohydrate leguminous fibre diet improves all aspects of diabetic control.
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This study is the background to the paper cited by Hana.I
obviously an early low gi diet !!!

It was a short term study carried out in Oxford . Interestingly, you can (perhaps) read about the life of a person who took part in those trials. In diabetes stories, one subject mentions that he was put on a bean diet , his diet was reported on in a newspaper ( He was in Oxford so I think it must be the same trial). He remained on it for most of his life, only stopping when his wife died and he couldn't manage the cooking!. It seems to have worked very well for him. He was 85 when he told his story. He said that Diabetes hadn't stopped him doing anything
http://www.diabetes-stories.com/interview.asp?UID=27
 
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