I have been a nurse for 40 years, and a lot of things we recommended have changed, my dad died from heart disease at 55, my so I have been on a low fat diet most of my adult life. Like a lot of women have been on a restricted food intake, sometimes more successful than others, all my life. I can almost tell you the amount of calories in any food, I have poured over labels, and thought I had a good understanding of nutrition.
I think that nutrition has never really been taught well in schools, the professionals seem to have a need to make everything complicated, or else they out of a job, or they make the message so simple that it becomes corrupted.
Cereals are cheap, they store well, you add sugar to them and they taste yummy and then you sell them for loads of money. The profit from carbs is huge, hence why there are so many boxed cereals, biscuits, and potato based snacks. Every restaurant and fast food outlet gives you a huge dollop of carbs because it looks as if you are getting value for money, when really its just cheap filler. So food companies can make smaller profit margins basics like an egg, unless they dress it up as omega 3, or meat which is already perceived as expensive and has a shorter shelf life.
I think the carb thing started off with good intentions, when most people were T1 it made sense to manage you intake and adjust your insulin, C1980. Patients were told what to do and very few managed their own insulin and no one was really taught about diets. There were very few T2 and most were very old and to be honest very little effort was put into educating them or their family.
I sort of got the whole grain thing but it was too simple a message and sort of ended up you can eat carbs?
Our whole western diet is based on a large amounts of cheap carbs, that's why its so hard for a 'normal' person to go LC, our environment just isn't geared for it. For me LC just isn't about diabetes but its about the general health of the population, which is eating too many carbs and getting fatter, with all its health risks.
So the other site? Its fighting against tradition and what the NHS has basically supported for the last 30 +years. Its an easy message to sell, its not difficult to do and you are not teaching people to question, and answering questions is hard.
This site promotes questioning, you learn from other people, not a HCP. I can not understand what they are so afraid of, the worst that can happen is that everyone might lose weight. We already have rising T2, so can it make it worse? Most of the T1 on here seem intelligent responsible people who do not want to go out of their way to sabotage their heath and are capable of recording changes in their BS.
I do not conspiracy theories, but follow the money. The money in food, controlled by the big corporations that sell carbs at vast profits, plus all the artificial sweeteners, the low fat foods etc , do they really want you to think you can live well on eggs , meat, milk and fresh veg? Then there are the drug companies, you still get a descent buffet from a drugs rep, when they give a talk. There is very little profit in LCHF so very little money in promoting it.
