Wed, Mar-11-15, 20:43
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Senior Member
Posts: 1,247
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Plan: Atkins/Taubes
Stats: 270/168/160
BF:
Progress: 93%
Location: Dallas, TX
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Originally Posted by JLx
I certainly agree with that. I was in the hospital for 3 days and the post surgical diet was almost ALL sugar. Only the broth wasn't. Otherwise it was some sugary protein shake, pudding, juice, etc. And since I was diabetic, and not on insulin, now I had to be on insulin. And what crappy blood sugars I had too all despite round the clock nursing and monitoring. It was an eye opening experience as to just how inadequate that approach is. When I complained to the RN and said I usually eat low carb, he said there was no other option and "why not just enjoy the sugar while you can". The last meal I was stepped up to a diabetic diet - low fat lasagna!
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I've posted before about a good friend that passed from cancer last year after a four year battle. The food the hospital gave her was almost criminal, no, forget the almost. Attempted murder is criminal no matter what. The tray of sugar they served up was so bad, and I swear it got WORSE when she was diagnosed as diabetic after the first year of her fight. I would bring her salads, roasted meats, creamy/fatty soups and tell them to not bother. Wish I could have done the same to her church "family" that kept a seemingly neverending stream of cake, cornbread, beans and rice and other "southern comfort food" coming when she was at home. She KNEW BETTER. She saw the blood sugar drops and the tumors that stopped growing or even shrank when she stuck with it. But in the end it wasn't enough. She was scared, and wanted the comfort more than she wanted to fight. Her tumors spread from her breast to her brain, finally the radiation fried her throat so badly they put a permanent feeding tube/port on her abdomen and she could only receive liquid meals. I won't even bother telling anybody what the ingredients in those were, just that it broke my heart, while making me very, VERY angry. At the medical profession, the system as a whole and even at her to be honest. A total waste of a life, leaving a husband and three children behind. And the hospital tried to feed the cancer and diabetes every step of the way.
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