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This is disgraceful. It’s how people with type 2 diabetes are kept sick in the hospital. Here’s an e-mail from Mariane:
Hi Andreas,
I live in Calgary, Canada and have been a member of Diet Doctor for since the beginning. I just want to show you what my recently diagnosed with diabetes father in law gets fed in the hospital.Banana, cookie, crackers, fruit cup, pudding, bread, chilli and Ensure. This was lunch. I am totally shocked! All the dietician keeps saying is watch the fat. Omg! Glucerna (diabetic Ensure) has 25g of sugar instead of 35g in the regular Ensure. They are killing us!
This is why diabetes type 2 is considered to be an incurable, progressive disease. It’s because the usual care makes it worse, covering the problem up as best we can with more and more drugs.
Reversal of diabetes type 2 is very possible. But it requires not eating hospital food and not following insane high-carb diet advice from dieticians.
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Seems a no win situation.
"Carb sandwiches on toast with cow carbs, washed down with orange juice"
Another was told she could manage her own diabetes herself. When she came round from the anesthetic she discovered her insulin and meter had been kidnapped and she was put on a Sliding Scale of insulin and her BG kept over 8 at all times "because we don't want you having hypos"
a) I'd classify this as theft
b) Forcing a patient to almost 2x normal BG, is that a criminal assault already?
The claim "we don't want you having hypos" sounds half-resonable at first, but without the hospital staff knowing anything about the patient's history regarding blood-sugar control, stability... this is nonsense.
Dr. Bernstein has a couple of videos on his youtube channel discussing how to deal with hospital stays as a diabetic and "uncooperative" staff.
One tip was to NOT telling them that you bring your own test-gear and insulin, to prevent them from stealing it.
Once again, it seems that the medical complex is absolutely clueless about how to deal with this chronic condition. I could understand shooting for a somewhat higher BG during surgery to avoid lows, but once the patient is conscious again and capable of taking care of BG control, they should stay out of it completely.
I think the medical industry has confused Hippocratic Oath with hypocritical actions.
If I could remember where I saw it I'd link to a horror story of a Type 1 who dropped his last vial of fast insulin and went to A&E (Casualty) to see if he could get a replacement. He ended up with a severe hyper and was admitted, after which they gave him a life-threatening hypo.
If a patient screws up on hospital premises the hospital could be sued, but if the hospital makes the screw up they are covered from prosecution as long as they are Following The Rules.
I was in a small renal ward with 3 much older diabetic women. Every night in hospital the tea trolley came round at 9pm and these diabetics were offered chocolate gateau or lemon drizzle cake. Which they enjoyed! One lady needed insulin injections first thing every morning. Her sugar levels were over 20.
I know a couple of diabetics in the UK who were put on steroids and left running BG of 20 - 30 (360 - 540), yet in other countries and even in other towns/hospitals in the UK they would be given medication, medication increases or even temporary insulin to stop this happening. Very unlikely though that they would be prescribed a low carb diet, my understanding is that while not yet a legal requirement, hospital and other institutional food MUST adhere to the Eatwell Plate/Food Pyramid.
That's no excuse for feeding crappy carbs to your healing patients, but many bodies are not ready for a high fat or even regular protein diet during recovery.
Personally I would bring in a quality bone broth (populating my freezer) enhanced with some organic gelatin to sip on regularly. Too bad they make you hear it in the microwave of all things. So ignorant!
When I was in hospital, some of the nurses smuggled lots of butter to me.
At the time I knew nothing about LCHF, in fact I had no idea what a carbohydrate is.
I only knew that the hospital's "heart healthy diet, " with margarine, was suspect.
It was only when I was discharged from hospital with a box of pharmaceutical drugs, with advice that I would have to take them for the rest of my life that I decided to ask the question.
"If the impressive list of these drugs that I had been swallowing on doctors orders for the past fifteen odd years, were to prevent heart disease, then what the hell happened there ?"
The good news is, that I am into my fifth year of LCHF, and looking forward to my eighty third birthday on 24th of May 2017.
No longer type two diabetic and completely pain free, and medication free to boot.
I am being criticized for my fanatical obsession with posting information about LCHF and the misinformation being published by those who are trusted with our lives.
I am encourage by a statement by a man who lived just over two thousand years ago. "A prophet has no standing in his own country".They nailed him to a tree.!