Sun, Jun-15-14, 23:00
|
Senior Member
Posts: 6,498
|
|
Plan: VLC, mostly meat
Stats: 202/200/165
BF:
Progress: 5%
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by WereBear
But low carb eating has changed my whole outlook on the disease. Now it's not some mysterious bolt from the blue (at least, not Type II.) Now I see it as an illness both brought on, and essentially curable, based entirely on what we choose to eat.
So it's heartbreaking to see these people struggling with hypos, erratic blood sugars, and fears about their health when it can be so much healthier and easier.
It drives me nuts!
Am I right?
|
Yes, you are. But, and this is a big but, I have to relate my own experience with diabetes type 2. My own experience tells me it's entirely possible to show symptoms that could lead a doc to believe it's diabetes when in fact it's not. I mean that one doc I consulted suggested I be tested for diabetes type 2, all based on my symptoms. Actually, all based on this doc's interpretation of my symptoms. I'd have to ignore a whole bunch of symptoms to come up with a suggestion of diabetes. So, that doc must have ignored a whole bunch of symptoms to come up with it on his own. Needless to say, I'm not being treated by that doc.
Nevertheless, diet must be the single most significant cause of diabetes type 2 for most sufferers, so yes, you're right. But you would be driven just as nuts if you thought docs just don't understand the disease that well, so much so that they could very do the same thing they did to me to many other people every day. I mean, it drives me nuts when I think about that. I just can't believe the profession could be so wrong about it, yet my experience shows otherwise. I believe it's highly likely that we've got tons of people who are treated for diabetes type 2 needlessly, right up to the point of losing limbs, when we could instead treat them for the correct medical condition(s) they are in fact suffering from, without losing their limbs and eyesight, in conjunction with appropriate dietary advice.
Consider obesity. We already know there's several possible causes for it besides diet. So, even if we address diet to the best of our ability, we could very well be stuck with a secondary factor that leaves us still fat, and probably also still sick. Since obesity and diabetes go hand in hand, it follows that these potential secondary factors for obesity also act for diabetes type 2. Still, it's no excuse not to try the obvious dietary therapy, i.e. LC, for something that has at its core a known problem with dietary carbohydrates. Now this drives me nuts, too.
|