Dr. Mosley: “You can eat to reverse diabetes, so why aren’t health professionals telling you how?”
in Diabetes 
Nobody has missed that the UK has been, and is, amid a huge health crisis when it comes to type 2 diabetes. But why are people’s blood sugar levels ever increasing, in spite of many attempts to reverse this trend? Dr. Michael Mosley is yet another doctor who understands why.
Dr. Mosley’s conclusions? That the “eat-low-fat, exercise-more” advice that has been given is counterproductive and actually exacerbates the problem. Also, doctors are not educated enough on the impact of diet. Instead they are pressured to prescribe diabetes medications.
So what is Dr. Mosley’s suggestion then? Eat more fat (such as eggs, salmon and olive oil), try intermittent fasting… and realize that exercise won’t help you lose weight.
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There is a saying in my language about people who " hear the sound of the bell, but don't know where the clapper hangs", to describe people who apparantly know a lot but have completely missed the essence. Dr. Mosley's 'fasting diet' book impressed me to be a halfbaked attempt on introducing lowcarb while still safely adhering to the high carb, low vegetable oil 'mediterranian' doctrine.
Maybe dr. Mosley has seen the light, maybe not. It will be long time, however, before I will read or watch anything from him again.
I'm sorry, I don't want to be such a grump and Debby Downer all the time, but I have been *seriously* disappointed by dr. Mosley, perhaps more so because I used to like him quite a bit.
First, because most of them don't know and secondly 99% of people will not listen anyway.
On visiting her in both the hospitals and the SNFs, I was present when some of her meals were served. On one breakfast occasion, I observed them providing her with pancakes and syrup along with some canned fruits. On a lunch occasion, I observed them providing her with sliced turkey accompanied by a huge mound of mashed potatoes covered with a gravy thickened with flour. Suffice it to say, the rest of the fare offered by the institutions was formulated to the same standards.
Being appalled at what I saw, I asked why, if they knew she was diabetic, they were serving her so much carbohydrate. I was told it was the diabetic diet prescribed by the Head Nutritionist. Surely, this was an error, I thought. I asked to speak with the nutritionist and after a while she came into the room. In answer to my query to her about the high carbohydrate components of the meals, she said the following, "Oh. it's okay. All of our dishes conform to the ADA (American Diabetes Association) guidelines. We keep good control of our diabetic patients' blood glucose levels by giving them Insulin." When I talked about the negative effects of high carbohydrate ingestion and the merits of of a closer-to-nutritional ketogenic diet, she acknowledged the merits of such a diet but said her hands were tied, she mumbled something about standard of care, and then walked out of the room.
I started bringing my wife food from home. One of her favorites was a fake taco plate (i.e., with everything but the tortillas, rice, and beans). I made it as a ground beef casserole based on a DietDoctor recipe. When I was going to serve it, I just heated it up in the staff lounge microwave.
I still think letting blood glucose spike and then controlling it with Insulin is an inhumane practice. But, I realize I am spitting into the wind in trying to get them to do something differently.
Can someone tell me how to keep my weight up on low carb. Successfully used the diet and now keeping glucose levels under control but weight still creeping off and I dont want to lose any more.
Simples ...no profit in health, and certainly no profit if folks stop eating grains and not forgetting the liquids of death : vegetable oils etc
So, all the reasons combine to one factor - MONEY and Profit above health is their mantra ...whatever way you look at it ...
Sad, bu a t true testament of this worlds incredible/ inordinate levels of corporate and personal greed ...
Kenrick