diabeteses

sheramber

Diabetic foods are not recommended by health professionals as they contain artificial sweeteners which can cause loose bowels.

Look at the Dabetic UK website for advice and menus.

pmduk

As above, foods aimed at people with diabetes are frequently a rip-off as there is little that you cannot eat in moderation.
Go back to your GP and ask for a referral to your Community Diabetes team, In England at least, you are entitled to education in coping with diabetes. In my case, several years ago now,our group was offered a tour of a supermarket in which the participants were shown commonly bought items and compared with healthier alternatives.

MrsStepford

Before oral medications for Type II diabetes, patients were put on low carbohydrate diets. The move to lower fat for health and hence up carbs, took place at the same time as the introduction of oral meds.. In theory people could take meds and eat whatever they wanted.

However, neither taking drugs nor eating low carb treats diabetes. Drugs treat the symptoms, low carb diets remove the foods which diabetics don't handle so well.

Type II Diabetes is basically the inability of the pancreas, to produce sufficient insulin, to cope with the amount of sugar and carbohydrates being eaten. Bread, flour, pasta, rice, potatoes are all examples of carbohydrates which the body converts into glucose (sugar).

The modern diet replaced fat with carbohydrate because it's easier to process and make a profit, doesn't go rancid and is easier to transport. Look in a supermarket and 90% or more is carbohydrate. The studies which Ancel Keys undertook were flawed and when he retired, he lived to 100 by going to Greece and eating a low carb Mediterranean diet

There's no point eating sugar free, if you continue to eaat a lot of carbs. Humans can run on carbs OR fat & protein - and if you eat too much protein that gets converted to glucose also.

luvchocolate

A blood test showed me being pre diabetic.
I was invited to a course that runs from May this year to Feb next year, initially weekly then 2 weekly then monthly.
Its run by Reed Momenta and brilliant training on food and exercise maybe things we knew but its very motivating and we help each other as a group, we get weighed and will have a blood test towards the end.

pogofish

luvchocolate wrote: »

Its run by Reed Momenta and brilliant training on food and exercise maybe things we knew but its very motivating and we help each other as a group,

Ahh!... Reed Momenta - The commercial outsourcing company who get away with the sort of employment practices that were forbidden to the likes of McDonalds a few years back.

Instead of praising them, why not ask whoever booked you on this course (I will not say referred!), why on earth is this not being handled by your own health authority and staffed by medically trained professionals instead of "Coaches" with a highly variable level of qualification paid minimum hours..?

luvchocolate

pogofish wrote: »

Ahh!... Reed Momenta - The commercial outsourcing company who get away with the sort of employment practices that were forbidden to the likes of McDonalds a few years back.

Instead of praising them, why not ask whoever booked you on this course (I will not say referred!), why on earth is this not being handled by your own health authority and staffed by medically trained professionals instead of "Coaches" with a highly variable level of qualification paid minimum hours..?

I was referred by my doctor, and to be honest happy to have some help, the booklets are very professional and I have lost weight. will be interesting to see the blood test results later in the year.
I have no interest in getting into a debate about our N.H.S.
Wished I'd not posted now did not expect to get your response.