Well for our O/P benefit
@cured
i applaud the effort re the FIGHT FAT club in Newcastle, and trying to encourage a member to take more care.
Trouble is you come across as lecturing people you do not know..because YOU are right.
and sadly many on here will vehemently disagree with you, due to SEEING the proof for themselves.
Pre-diabetes is caused by lifestyle factors, primarily obesity (being overweight due to eating the wrong types of food in excess) and indolence (being inactive), but also and probably more especially due to ignorance and indifference.
So the advice of bread, grains, fruit, rice (brown) higher carbs, lower fats...is that your recommendation to us.
as that is still the prescribed 'antidote' for type 2
I suggest the WRONG type of foods
* IS the type we get told to eat,
* it IS the type type EVERY shop is stuffed to the gills with because it sells
and
* IS the type WE know causes diabetics issues...as it's stuffed with sugars
because we SEE the results when they wash up here after diagnosis, like i did and the diet plan is just NOT working for them.
( but you make a good point...If only the wrong type of food only carried a warning like cigarettes do
something like:
"HIGH CARBS MAY DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH,"
might work,
i'm sure more WOULD listen.and we would be avoiding the obesity epidemic that's fuelling the massive
rise in diabetes across the western world )
Within months new members have better control, the HBA1c usually has dropped QUITE significantly
and almost all have lost large sums of weight..while eating better foods, more fats..impossible says the advice, we are used to hearing , yet case after case, freely available for you to peruse on here...go figure.
i rarely go hungry..yet those early weeks i was starving all the time
And eating as prescribed.
i got the warning i MIGHT be T2D
HBA1c said yes..doc gave me some time to use diet before rechecking and making the diagnosis.
So off i went ..ripped into the NEW diet..i got worse.
So desperate for some help, i came on here...and learned to breathe again.
helpful advice from those who KNOW what it's like
And i now KNOW through seeing the evidence, on here..what helps US T2D's
they didn't just spout the nonsense i'd been hearing everywhere for the last few weeks,
that had failed me so miserably. prior to my arrival on THIS wonderful forum.
Cue 3 months of listening, engaging and putting into practice some of the ideas on here,
in the hope to improve and manage my diabetes better.
As have many others...( do Go check the testimonials page )
My reading from 57..to 42 in 3 months..very happy.
Post away my friend.
I very much doubt your solution would bring my HBA1c down by 15 points OR reduce my weight by 3 STONE, in 3 months.
all while being satiated each day, and never being so hungry as those first few weeks
when i tried your/nhs way
i know where MY best interests lay when i'm listening to people post on here.