@A DiabetesTeam Member the problem with today's diet recommendations from most national organizations/government health groups is that they are working from "old data"

Not surprising, government is really slow to change (no incentive to be leading edge - get paid for doing a mediocre job at best)

Particularly over the past 10 years a ton of research has been done around diet and it's starting to show that "what we thought", which sounded logical and viable at the time was either only partially true, way more complex then thought, or was beyond incomplete

Eggs were bad because they were full of cholesterol - oooops, that cholesterol isn't the stuff in our blood causing the problems

Drink low fat dairy to avoid the saturated fats - oooooops those are "short chain" fats not the long chain ones in red meat that are the problem

You should get 60% of your calories from Carbs - oooooops it is carbs that get turned into body fat and we created an obesity epidemic so how do we handle that - don't change the guidance, change the attitude - society has a problem with your weight, you don't they are just "haters" - ooooooops incidence of diabetes is up 50% in 5 years and average age of onset has dropped 15 years - a child born today has a 50% chance of developing Type 2 - when I was born the odds were 2% - but hey, we can blame someone else for that, it's not your fault, my fault and not the government

If you want to see something really eye opening take a good look around on the Diabetes UK website. They have a whole section on remission. They have laid out low carb diets, diets for 1500 or 1800 calories a day complete with recipes.

They have reduced the recommended blood sugar range from the (standard) under 180/10.0 mmols after meals to under 153/8.5 and tell you this is because if you don't all these bad things will happen to you

They have finally realized that trying to make people feel good about themselves is killing them and in their quite advanced Socialized Medicare System it's costing the "government" billions so they have finally realized if we prevent things from happening instead of reacting to them, we save lives and money.

I just want our National Health Groups to start giving us all the facts - treat us like adults - stop trying to protect us and our feelings from ourselves. We shouldn't have to sift through reams of Studies, that in most cases that very same government paid for, to find the best advise to deal with our disease and save our own lives.

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Thank you Graham for the information. Appreciated. I have been told that I need to include cold pressed extra virgin coconut oil in my diet cos of Hypo thyroid. Under active thyroid.

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Unbelievable. Maybe if more people saw this, there would be more of an outcry for more money for research. Short of cancer or heart disease, I don't think anything else even comes close.

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Thank you as always for your informational guidance. I appreciate you very much! I am very conscious of my fats. Am a very avid virgin olive oil user. I also like Avacodo oil in very low portions ( Avacado oil has many more calories than I would like but, it is a good fat..so I use it sparingly.
Sometimes it really feels like there is just an overload to think about....What am I saying? Sometimes?? All of the time! lol but I try

@A DiabetesTeam Member you might be surprised by how much difference even some small changes can make - I am looking forward to hearing your results so please keep us posted - 30 lbs alone should make a significant difference to your A1C

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