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Type 2 documentary alert

sad to see the 'Pamphlet' idea is alive and well, at first DX over there as well.

Nice nudge
shall go look for it.

mmhhh.
not finding it out there as yet.

sponsored by Merck, with seemingly the same sort of Eatwell plate for T2..:sorry:
 
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Unfortunately mis-informed stuff like this will probably reach many more people than will the messages of those doctors who have real success in treating diabetes.
It says 'Walk proudly , and you can manage it.'
I say 'I walk proudly because I have conquered it. I have put T2 it in remission!'
 
I wouldn't mind seeing the rest of it, just to see what it says. I can only assume that it's Merck pushing their drugs onto people who probably can't afford it. I'll keep looking.

Edit: Well if I was in the U.S., I could watch it on FYI TV, a U.S. pay channel.
 
"I have it in my genes" (there is NOT a type two gene or even genes), and not a word in the trailer about food.

Grrrrrrr.
 
When are we going to see the end of this awful dietary recommendations confusion? I just hope I will live long enough to see it!

(I liked being able to see the Diabetes Challenge website - thanks for that @NicoleC1971.)

I did like the thumbs up to herbs and spices and home cooking recommendation, but I would never say it can be fun! :). I cook a lot since diagnosis, but it's about as much fun for me as cleaning floors.

The only way I can understand any diabetes educator who seriously recommends wholegrain bread, and advises against beef and pork (yes - because of the fat) is to need to believe they are just horribly horribly confused. (The infographic for following a diet plan was an apple!) They personally have never tested the blood of a blood-glucose-dysregulated person after eating a piece of toast, or that apple, versus after eating a piece of pork - rind and all. Or if they did - they were unable to connect with what the results mean. It must be that they have not lived with a person genuinely treating with diet and exercise.

For those of us who test - this (carbs versus protein) is basic stuff. Like me in the 1970s, such educators are just not thinking it through, are just not reading the lit about nutritional basics. They are trusting the wrong information. And, they have become the disseminators of the wrong information! Awful! Imagine living with that? (Viola Davis the actor being the frontline person must be genuine? But she isn't doing any background reading...)

Trusting the wrong information has seriously bad consequences for those with diabetes though. (Has anyone followed up on who and what this 'Merck' is?)

When are we going to see real change in this?
 
From Wiki

'Merck & Co., Inc., d.b.a.Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) outside the United States and Canada, is an American multinationalpharmaceutical company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world.]'

Oh dear. And there I was thinking of it being just some nice but confused health organisation.

I see you guys were referring to Big Pharma above, and I just can't have drunken enough morning coffee yet! Silly me.
 
Actually there were a couple of interjections by Merck during the program saluting those living and dealing with diabetes and their carers and families.

And maybe part of the thrust of the program concerned those unable to access health care and therefore the medications they provide.

I thought I would be unable to watch the whole program but it was not that bad maybe some of the dietary advise what there was of it, is not totally in line with what you get here but it was mainly about the people and how they cope.

And the title comes from how people used to talk about their diabetes as having a touch of the sugar or their sugars acting up because you couldn't just say I have diabetes it was taboo.

It was by no means the worst documentary about diabetes I have seen and was at pains to point out that no one chooses to get diabetes and blame is not something that should be attached to those of us who have it.
 
AloeSvea said:
When are we going to see the end of this awful dietary recommendations confusion?
They are trusting the wrong information. And, they have become the disseminators of the wrong information!

Trusting the wrong information has seriously bad consequences for those with diabetes though. (

When are we going to see real change in this?
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LIKE :D

I think in the land of the Blind, the one eyed man is King.

Thank **** MY eyes are BOTH wide open.
Never going to be fooled like THAT again.
 
There was one part when a doctor says to her patient "We have to be partners in this and work as a team to get you better" A good attitude I think.

Also when you have some one person saying that virtually their whole family have T2 brothers sisters parents grand parents it's heart rending.

One women who was type2 said she never woke up to her diabetes or took it seriously enough till her 12 year old son was diagnosed as T1., then she read and found out as much as she could about diabetes.
 
JohnEGreen said:
There was one part when a doctor says to her patient "We have to be partners in this and work as a team to get you better" A good attitude I think.

Also when you have some one person saying that virtually their whole family have T2 brothers sisters parents grand parents it's heart rending.

One women who was type2 said she never woke up to her diabetes or took it seriously enough till her 12 year old son was diagnosed as T1., then she read and found out as much as she could about diabetes.
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Indeed most sad @JohnEGreen
can't see how the previous advise would have made that anything but an almost certainty.
"It's ok kids, you don't need to avoid it, just don't put your hands into the radio active waste too much.
...that will provide plenty of protection..:banghead:"

Liking the partner thing,
sadly not the defacto fall back position many on here seem to get with their HCP..(who should know better)
or in general, with the prejudice that it's our own fault for being greedy,etc.

Had a good friend, type 1...
when i came out and told people (no shame here :D) his words where the disease is wrongly named.
should be "too lazy just chooses bad foods disease"..or some such...:rolleyes:

i got where he came from, no harm intended, and we agreed to disagree, but here was one person i thought MIGHT be on the same page.

I do wish that i could drop the facade with the docs etc that all the numbers and positives are because. Of...
A. Taking the meds.
B. Eat as told
C. Losing the weight

I could and did drop the meds, for a bit..no real difference.
I could eat as i am told,... but won't as i know where that difference leads
I could gain weight...but don't want to let the weight come back, but to do so i would have to go the eatwell plate.

LCHF just keeps me in maintenance mode..(that lack of hunger anymore has been a revelation)

So i sit, i smile, i say little,
because when i do..
.it's tte meds, it's the food, it's the weight loss..
...yada yada yada :rolleyes:
 
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