Tue, May-29-18, 03:43
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Plan: P:E/DDF
Stats: 225/150/169
BF:45%/28%/25%
Progress: 134%
Location: NC
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Adding another UK based book, Diabetes Diet.
A number of the Diabetes Unpacked authors recently spoke at the PHC annual conference. Marika's two part review of it. Talks will be posted on line.
http://foodmed.net/2018/05/phc-lays...to-rest-part-2/
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Many in the UK have not even heard of US expert Dr Richard Bernstein, he said. Nor does anyone ever tell them that low-carb “is safe and OK”.
Lake also said that many type 1 diabetics are already using LCHF therapies and are achieving “very good results”.
Scottish GP Katherine Morrisson also uses low-carb diets for diabetic patients. She became interested in LCHF after her son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.
USUAL TREATMENT FAILURE
She said that results from “usual” treatment for both type 1 and 2 diabetes are “poor”.
Morrison is co-author of the book, Diabetes Diet: For Weight Loss and Incredible Blood Sugar Control. She is also co-author of papers on low-carb diets for metabolic syndrome and diabetes.
Morrison said that doctors and dietitians who don’t use ketogenic diets for treatment of diabetes have an unreasonable fear of ketoacidosis. Ketoacidosis is a rare, potentially fatal condition seen mostly in type 1 diabetics.
“Ketogenic diets do not cause ketoacidosis,” Morrison said.
Dietary ketosis is a perfectly normal phenomenon, she said. It occurs when there is a relative lack of dietary carbohydrate. The body uses up body fat for fuel and a side effect is the “spilling of ketones” – a by-product of fat metabolism– into the bloodstream, breath and urine.
The amounts of ketones are “small and not dangerous”, she said.
She called it “crazy” to recommend a high-carb diet for diabetics, both type 1 and 2. (Doctors advised her to put her son on a high-carb diet when he was first diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.)
Morrison pointed out that even NICE (UK National Institute for Clinical Excellence) diet criteria now support low-carb diets.
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