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Share your storyThe doctor asked: “What have you done?”
At an appointment with my doctor, after being on an LCHF diet for one year (diabetes checkup):
The first thing she asks me is…. “What have you done?” – with a big smile.
“I started eating an LCHF diet”, I say.
“I just knew it had to be something like that!”, she says.All numbers are good. Blood sugar normal, cholesterol numbers good, blood counts…. everything that can be measured is great (all was not good a year ago). My waistline has shrunk by 5 inches, and I have lost more than 30 pounds (have acquired more muscle mass too, so my fat loss is probably significant).
In addition I have completely stopped taking some antidiabetic medications (don’t need them anymore), and am currently taking half the dose of the last remaining antidiabetic medication that I take daily. I don’t need more than that when I eat an LCHF diet.
Then comes the funny part (or the not so funny part). She tells med that many of her patients have changed their diets to an LCHF diet on their own. And they all lose weight, they all improve their health markers, become healthier and feel much better.
“Isn’t this amazing?!”, she says, adding “And I am not allowed to recommend this to my patients, because we have to follow the official guidelines. Our whole society is sugar-poisoned.”
Congratulations!
The doctor’s idea that she is not allowed to recommend an LCHF diet is a common urban legend, that is spread by ignorance. As a physician in Sweden you may certainly recommend an LCHF diet. I have done so to appropriate patients more or less daily for the past six years, with results similar to the above.
It is also terrible, that many people stumble upon healthy low-carb eating so late into metabolic disease, and that for many years they are being pushed ever deeper into their demise by following standard eating advice.
Diabetes comes on slowly and intrepidly. It starts with relatively innocent looking and obscure symptoms like sleep disturbances, fatigue, exercise intolerance, depression, anxiety, chronic fatigue, arthritis and muscle soreness, pimples, mood swings, polycystic ovary syndrome, later on hypoglycemia and weight gain, susceptibility to infections..........
I believe, that the official numbers are underestimating the extent of the problem. I believe, that most people eating the standard diet are in various stages of insulin resistance/diabetes mellitus.
I am glad, that there is now this small counter movement, educating those, who are seeking for something better, on a healthy life-style. Thank you Andreas and all you supporters for helping all of us!
You have an entire bureaucracy built up around this bad idea, its like a giant snowball rolling down hill, picking up momentum and killing those in its path. Government does not change course fast enough to respond, especially one like we have in which lobbyists hold greater sway over our so called leaders then the people they are elected to represent. This is why so many of us cannot accept the idea of the soda ban, so long as we continue to try band aides on this gaping wound we will never turn the rudder, and will continue to bash our collective skulls against the iceberg.