https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/125704

Hi folks we are up to 109 signatures for our petition asking the NHS to encourage T2 diabetics to follow the low carb diet. Scroll to top of page 1 for more information.
Do we have any new members resident in the UK who would like to sign up? 🙂

111 signatures at time of writing this post 🙂

Petition
NHS to encourage the treatment of type 2 diabetes with a low carbohydrate diet.

Professor Taylor has shown that Type 2 diabetes can be reversed using a low carbohydrate, low calorie diet. The NHS has announced it is rolling out a programme to give pre-diabetics lifestyle help. There is no mention of the blood sugar diet which pre-diabetics and diabetics should be following.

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The programme will cost £7 million pounds to run. The dietary advice will be the same as that currently being followed. We have a diabetes epidemic so the old advice is not working.
Dr Maureen Baker, of the Royal College of GPs, welcomed the scheme but she warned “The long-term behaviour changes we need to see is hard to inspire”. However, there are forums for the Blood Sugar Diet which offer the support and inspiration needed which will also ease the burden on GP surgeries.
Sign this petition
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/125704

Hi folks, some really good news, this is the reply from the tech team about our petition!!

Hi Judith, apologies for the tardy reply, still playing catch up after the Easter break.

This is a great idea and I would like to publicise this as much as possible. I do just need to take opinion from the rest of the team first.

I’ll come back to you as soon as possible.
Thanks

Paul

If you are a UK resident and haven’t heard of this petition yet, please sign. You will find the link at the top of page 1 and in a few other spots!! 🙂

Result Judith
Well done your perseverance has paid off, now let’s really get the word out.
I’ve been nagging my FB and twitter accounts with it, if everyone does the same it should be a big help.
It would be great if our Australian and American friends could do it too, you never know how many UK based followers or friends they may have.

Hi all those dedicated people who had the gumption to start the petition. I have just signed it, so thought I should go the whole hog and post this on the forum. After reading Dr Mosley’s book, I checked my blood sugar and found I was officially diabetic. I am already on treatment for high blood pressure, so it seemed it was now or never. My weight loss was ok for the first 2 weeks but has since stalled (2 bad weekends, I’m afraid), so I need to get back on track. Hopefully, posting this will spur me on. I hope more people sign the petition (I think I was number 111).

I have 2.5 to 3 stone to lose. My husband doesn’t need to lose weight but his diabetes needs better control and all the GP does, of course, is increase his medication.

Will let you know how we improve – I am determined we will improve.

Thanks Pam. I have posted the petition to my facebook page as well, quite a few have.

Hopefully hubby’s diabetes will be reversed!! Just look at Bill 1954’s results!! 🙂

Very true Bill, I bet a lot of them have rellies in ‘the old country’ 🙂

Great news Judith 😃

Hi are there any Uk newbies who would like to sign our petition?

121 signatures so far. Calling all new UK resident BSDers to sign our petition!

Lets keep this thing rolling along!

122 signatures now, come on peeps, as Janet says let’s keep this thing rolling along!

Hashimoto 123 now I have just signed

Fantastic, Kathy54! Ball is rolling again! 🙂

133 signatures folks! Let’s keep it rolling! Don’t forget you can click on a tab to post to your social media accounts? 🙂

137 signatures and climbing! keep it up folks! 🙂

144 signatures, fantastic, lets keep the momentum going 🙂

146 signatures let’s keep the ball rolling! 🙂

149 signatures, it’s warming up folks!! 🙂

152 signatures!!!

Well the thread I posted on a business forum has caused quite a discussion. There was one poster who took issue with me claiming that the doctors are correct and we should all be nice kids and do what we are told. I’m reproducing this post from someone else, it’s typical of the replies he got to that statement.
“There is always someone who swears medical science and the medical system is perfect, and beyond question, online and in real life.
Until someone has repeatedly suffered at the hands of gross incompetence, vested interest, or simple indifference, then I doubt it’s possible to explain that there are chronic problems with the medical system.
I would certainly be dead a long time ago if it wasn’t for the doctors, and would certainly be dead or crippled if I’d listen to the 95% of nonsense that they spouted to me.
It’s unfortunate that folks who are deeply fond of doctors, choose too focus upon the tiny weeny little bit of good they did, and ignore the huge amount of damage. ”

There is a lot of support out there, we just need to find it.

Thanks Bill, that’s brilliant, you are really getting the news out there.
Thanks to Lucia who got signatures 154 and 155. We are now on 156!! yaaaay

That’s a great comment Bill. Thanks for sharing it b

Hi hashimoto

My husband has just posted the info on a forum he belongs to. No word back yet from my MP!
Building Rome comes to mind!

When we welcome newbies, can we direct them straight to this petition
Hawaiian shaka sign = Hang Loose
Eureka

Thanks eureka. The tech team are looking at putting a sticky on it. The more newbies you can direct there the better! I keep posting comments to try and keep it near the top of the ‘recent topics’.

Say a big thankyou to your hubby for posting it to a forum. Quite a few of us have posted to facebook too

:). :). :). :). :). 🙂

Thanks lucia, say thanks to hubby as well. 162 yaaaaaaay

Hi, all signed up

A great cause, that they should take notice of

Thanks TWSandy, we’re up to 165 signatures yaaaay 🙂

I’ve just posted the petition to the british politics page on facebook in the hope that it’ll reach a wider audience than just my friends’ list. With enough shouting it will get the attention it deserves 😀

Another 4 Twitter football groups and a USA diabetes support group (b1ofthe9) have the petition URL now
I thought the USA thing may help with publicity.

Diabetes UK Twitter feed too
*Waits for the storm*

Oh 170 now 🙂

Well done thepolly and Bill! 🙂

175 signatures now 🙂

Any newbies in the forums who would like to sign our petition? 176 signatures so far 🙂

What about your families and your friends and work colleagues?
Email the link to them.
I am sure we can get a lot more.

I am hoping for one more later this evening.

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Yes it would be good if we all did that. I am retired but I’m going to be selling it to some ex colleagues tomorrow and some other friends on saturday. One friend has my book at the mo so I’m hoping she and her daughter will sign up 🙂

182 signatures! Can we get it to 200 today? 🙂

Just want to point out that you only need to be a British citizen, not necessarily living in the UK, to sign petitions to the Government. So, those like me – British exports overseas – can also get their finger out and do it 😉

Oh Kags that is good to know!!! Thanks

Finally got husband to sign last night he also posted it on his Facebook page!

No worries. I truly hope this goes through. It still breaks my heart when I think of mum, who was T2 and moved on to injecting, told to eat up her carbs, stuffing down her salads with boiled potatoes, and her Weetabix every morning. She might have still been with us had we known about the BSD earlier.

Have signed and shared on Facebook.

Fantastic Christine!! I’ve just been pestering a few friends via email!!

Kags that is truly heart breaking for you. let’s get the word out there to save others from that fate xxx

Kags that is heart rending to hear about your Mum
I’m getting close to the end of my alloted span but I want to make damned sure that when my Grandchildren grow up, the correct information is in place for them to take control of their own health.
That’s not too much too ask, is it ?

Thanks Bill. I completely agree with you. As for me, I’ve finally cracked the first stone off in 5 1/2 weeks, so I’m more than happy. I’m sure the stable low BS readings will follow.

People !!!
Orchid has just posted a link to a BBC article on diabetes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35959554
At the bottom of the article is a contact link that lets you email them to tell them your T2D stories.
I’ve just given them the whole 9 yards including links to this forum and the petition.
Please everybody do the same. This could just generate the publicity we need.

Bill

I just tried that link. The contact link at the bottom just gives me a page saying it’s being updated with no option to email. I’m using a tablet, do I need to go on a computer? Or what am I doing wrong?

Hi Lynne
I hope thats my fault and the site is overloaded.
The email address you need is
haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk
I’ve posted what I mailed them in one of the petition threads further down the forum

Hi all
the above may be a link to the BBC but the article is about T2D worldwide, so if all of our friends from outside the UK could send emails that would be a big help
An example of what myself and Lynne have sent is in the petition thread in the BSD Med Style Low Carb forum
Thanks in advance.