I’ve just found a book I bought last year called The Everyday Diabetic Cookbook by Stella Bowling published with Diabetes UK. What it’s telling you in some parts of this book goes completely against the grain of the BSD! It states “base yr meals on starchy carbohydrate foods” & an example menu of a Low GI meal plan includes B/fast: Oats All Bran or Muesli….Snacks: yog fruit popcorn rye bread fruit loaf! Lunch: Baked Beans with J.Spud mixed grain breads. Dinner: Basmati rice sweet potato pearl barley noodles to eat along with meat/fish. It also states “eat more pasta based meals & incl. more beans & pulses.

Reduce fat intake & opt for more lower fat products.

Obviously it encourages you to eat plenty of fruit/veg but no restrictions as such.

So what/who is right. Surely if this book had input from Diabetes UK you’d think it was ok?

Confused.com 😦

I think that BSD is quite new in the approach of low carb & ditch the artificial low fat rubbish – give it to the charity shop!

have you read the 8 week blood sugar diet book? If not I’d suggest you do. Much of this type of debate is referred to in the book with a bit of explaining.

At the end of the day there are still differing views, here we have embraced BSD, we each have to make our own choices.

Hi Izzy yes I read the book b4 I started the BSD & it’s working well for me 11.5lbs in 12 days 😊 Just seems the cookery book is telling you totally different way of eating!

Diabetes UK do not seem to have caught up with the latest research with respect to low CHO as opposed to low fat. In their list of recipes they do not have a ‘Low CHO’ section – they have a ‘Low Sugar’ section, but that is not quite the same.
A way to check this is take the energy due to CHO and divide that figure by the combined energy for fat & protein. For instance, in one of their ‘Low Sugar’ recipes, the energy due to CHO (which includes sugar) is 2.35 times the combined energy due to fat & protein. Hardly ‘Low CHO’!

Sounds like this is working great for you then, so if I were you I’d just forget about what else you’ve read, by all means use any of the recipes that are BSD friendly or convertible and just ignore the rest.

Type 2. Think about how many people using the official dietary advice are coming off medication, losing weight and feeling great. Not many compared to the changes registered on this site. Life changing stories. I worked in the medical profession, it takes a long time to turn the tanker. if that official diet works why is diabetes increasing rapidly, why do most diabetics expect it to be a forever condition?

You asked the right questions Flower 55, it can be very confusing. The BSD converts are happy following that regime, some of their GPs and Diabetic Educators are supporting them. We could be at the cutting edge of innovation.
Nettle.

PS. Yesterday I read the quote ” We did what we did when we knew what we knew, now we know better.” It suits this situation. It was unattributed, if any one knows the original author let me know so I can acknowledge them.

IZZY you aways give great advice. I think of you as Bizzy-Izzy, you are assisting with many good answers.
N.

Thanks everyone for yr comments. I had realised that BSD is the way to go but wanted opinions/answers to my question 😊 You would think that Diabetes UK would encourage the BSD if everyone is achieving such great results! Onwards & upwards 👍