AggieChemist said:
veritas47 said:
I love seeing all these people who are all obviously highly educated Registered Dietitians on this thread giving advice to treat one of the top 5 killers of all Americans. Irresponsible?
BTW no one has ever gotten rid of either type of diabetes.
To be fair, most registered dietitians are still suggesting that diabetics shove bran muffins and other carb-loaded **** into their faces.
A good high protein, high fat diet would make most dietitians scream.
To be fair, I'd say the same applies to endocrinologists as well. If I had a dime for every time an endocrinologist told me "good job" for an A1C of higher than 7, I'd not be posting from work right now.
As far as veritas' concern, everybody must make their own decisions as far as how to deal with their own health. I do think it's beneficial to hear from others what works for them, and I don't think it's irresponsible to share with others. It may be irresponsible to take advice from others without achieving a full understanding of how the recommendations of others might impact the individual. I share with the group my opinions on anything diabetes related because I've achieved remarkable success following a high fat / high protein diet. Any complications I ever had have since reversed once I got my blood sugars under control. Might my advice be beneficial to someone struggling to control their diabetes? I think so. Can it be universally applied to every diabetic (both type 1 and type 2) regardless of their circumstances? That's not for me to decide.
I'll say this in response to Aggie Chemist's post. I did not get my diabetes under control until I took control of it myself and stopped depending on doctors, their advice, and their conventional wisdom. Doctors - typically - have one standard for diabetics and a different standard for non-diabetics. This makes no sense to me. I want to live a life longevity of a non-diabetic, so why are my standards lower than the non-diabetic? Why is it okay for me to have an A1C of greater than 7 when that would not be acceptable for the non-diabetic.
Most doctors are there to treat your symptoms, but very few have any recommendations that are worthwhile on the subject of actually controlling your diabetes. This has been my experience over the course of the last 33 years. I'm sure there are good doctors out there, but I've not found them.