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@SueJB, further to my comments on the above mother's blog - some Aussie and US context and my impressions: anyone trying to implement a low carb diet is not only up against health profession ignorance, confirmatory bias and the like there is the Big Food influence in advertising, and creating fake news, fake science and the like. On all forms of media, influencing, i allege, all sorts of organisations. It is not a level playing field, so which mother , concerned for her daughter's health and having research skills , woukd not be pushing back?
Furthermore if you look up 'Jennifer Elliott vs DAA) you will see how an Aussie dietitian in 2015 was deregistered for prescribing LCHF diets for T2Ds. She is not the only one.The alleged ties of Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA) to Big Food are real ( though talen off the reference site by DAA late last year, with no guarantee beyind rheotoric that it has not just continued, under the table as it were).
So there is this added impediment to Aussie diabetics obtaining any dietary advice for a well- proven, effective to prevent diabetes complication in diabetics type diet. And i defy anyone to prove that the simple sugars offered by Big Food are part of what human metabolim, refined over thousand's of years , was ever meant to encompass. Take for example the fact that dental caries were prevalent in Egyptian Mummies. Think about it compared to Inuit tribes etc.
I applaud her mother for taking the steps she has. I heard enough unwarranted criticism if Type 1 True Grit - the area is a
battleground, created by Big Food, ADA and others - that is the reality, not some soft-hearted thing to allow chikdren to eat what they like. Are such 'anti-advicates' going to help thises rendered blind, with amputated limbs etc late in life, whilst some HCPs breathe a sigh if reluef that they can retire unsued about hypos. Blame the patient is rife in some HCP circles, is it not? As us Aussies say: 'Get a grip about what the world out there is like' and how whilst some of us have the wherewithall to choose sensibly and tell contrarian HCPs to take a hike it is far more difficult for diabetic children and their parents to do so.
In the US paediatricians have sometimes placed diabetic children and their oarent(s) on legal treatment orders whereby the
child's pump readings have to reflect adherance to a high carb diet, One may well ask if what this mother in her blog is doing anything as outrageous as this to her child. How does a US paediatrician justify this in court? Yer honour, i just do not wished to be sued . Because that is the basic rationale.
End of rant.
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