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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lally123" data-source="post: 1571692" data-attributes="member: 379571"><p>Well I know someone who has just been appointed as a clinical champion raising the bar for inpatient diabetes care.  I was also involved many years ago before I was even diagnosed myself with the building of a purpose built diabetes centre near me, my involvement was in memory of many family members of mine who died too young mostly due to complications.  DUK were and still are heavily involved within the centre and are perfectly accessible for members of the public and this is evidenced by what's available in the diabetes centre.  're low carb not quite what I said.  I said that obviously there is a place for low carb but LONG TERM evidence in terms of decent quality research is not available so DUK/NHS wouldn't recommend that until that evidence is there.  Speaking to a friend of mine who works both NHS (specialist nurse) and DUK (clinical champion) I asked her this very question.  Her view was partly due to lack of long term evidence.  Short term evidence is promising but just suppose in the long term depriving yourself of carbs causes other long term damage of which we are currently unaware?  Can you imagine the lawsuits that would follow if the NHS/DUK had been advising these diets without knowing the long term effects.  The other point was that lifestyle is the hardest thing to change and possibly only has few as 5% of type 2 patients would stick to the diet therefore it's a case of damage limitation and advising people to make healthier food choices.  After all carbs have been around.forever.  in the 2nd world war for example, meals were largely carb based without a huge increase in type 2.  Therefore it's all down to education, reducing processed foods, not eating fast food and general **** that their guidelines are based around.  My mate goes to regular conferences and thinks that low carb may Well be recommended though there appear to be issues around very low carb.  As I don't eat very low carb because I hated it so much I didn't question her further on what issues but I can find out.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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