<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Thirsty</i>
<br />*Sigh*
I've taken a good deal of flak here for daring to question the validity of Carefix's claims. Just for the record, I'd like to make it clear that I've no particular axe to grind over the transfats issue; I'm not a medic, nor am I involved in the food or pharmaceutical industries.
Want to try the 'Cure'? I'm not going to stop you trying it; that's your own decision to make. Hell, you can try anything that takes your fancy; crystal therapy, homeopathy, acupuncture, ear-candling, scientology, the list of unproven therapies is endless. All will, however, cost you money, sometimes a significantly damaging amount. Think any of them will cure your diabetes? I really, really doubt it.
Judging by my own experience, I can't say that I'm inclined to spend my cash on any of these therapies. One 80mg gliclazide tablet and adopting a sensible diet, (as recommended by NHS employees), has been sufficient to return me to a reasonable state of health, after having been very ill. None of this has cost me so much as a penny.
No doubt I'll have upset people again with this post, but consider this; the alternative /complimentary medicine business is huge, and I'd say it's every bit as profiteering as the industries which Carefix appears to hate so much. (I note that he's changed his tune a little when it comes to the cause of type2.)
Finally, I'm no ogre; I really do wish all of you the very best of luck in dealing with your illness. If I didn't care, I wouldn't spend my time writing posts like this.
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Hay Nick,
I know how you feel. I felt the same way and was skeptical of unproven therapies, but we were forced to investigate them.
This was due to the health decline of my diabetic husband (and our family) after following the instructions of his medical professionals' advice to adopt a high carb, low fat, almost zero protein diet. Unlike you, here in the U.S. we dearly paid for that advice with insurance premiums and co-pays.
That was during the days when Dr. Atkins and his low carb diet were considered quackery among his highly educated, medical professional colleagues. Today, it's low carb basics are considered the foundation to a healthy diet.
Although I'm not objectionable to natural alternatives and personally found that some were beneficial and had been practiced successfully for many years, even centuries, I didn't implement what appeared to me to be way off center. I believe we were created by design and that every natural thing and man's creativity has a good use and purpose.
In my 15+ years of research I've found that our body is loaded with toxins and depleted of essential nutrients. We should be eliminating toxins and giving our body the nutrients that it needs to function properly.
If you put diesel (toxins) in a car that was manufactured to operate on gasoline (nutrients), you're going to have major problems.
If you drive that car close to empty, refilling it with a teaspoon of gasoline here and there while your zooming up and down the roads, it's gonna run bad and eventually die.
We are all similar to each other in our physical make up, but yet unique, so as Karen says, your goal should be to find what works best for you.
Take responsibility for your health rather than blindly following which ever way the scams' winds blow, be it alternative, contemporary or orthodox. Cautiously explore it all and use your God given common sense.
Happy Trails,
Proverbs 17:22
