Hi everyone! I'm Chief Content Officer here at dLife. I've been involved in diabetes education and advocacy for the past decade, and have been a consumer health writer and editor for over fifteen years. I'd love to hear your comments and ideas about content and features here on dLife.com and on dLifeTV, so feel free to write on my Wall - either to just say 'hello' or to offer me your two cents.
LC thank you so much for your comments to my recent post (which by the way isn't in regards to copperhairpin's blog post. LC just being reminded that we belong to God and HE LOVES us BIG TIME/ALL-THE-TIME is especially encouraging after all our calculations don't result in "Normal NONdiabetes" tests. Keep at it girl, HIS plans for you are still good, not to harm you but give you a hope AND A FUTURE with HIM:) PS: HE is the perfect husband:)
WOW Kathy, funny Jeremiah 29:11 is what I see every morning. :) It's posted in my bathroom in two places. Funny thing, at my last Diabetes seminar the speaker mentioned the word 'normal' and reminded us that we are normal, we just some time have blood sugars that non diabetics don't get. :)
No, you're not crazy. You've just bought into the mistaken notion that magazines, TV and other media, including the "News" is anything other than entertainment. You've made a mild complaint and a confession of confusion, here's a REAL rant: After 15,000+ years, homosapiens is still version 1.0. The diet dejour is version what - 500? 5000? Doctors who didn't know what caused diabetes 40 years ago, promised a cure would be found within 10 years. Doctors who today still don't know are...
View full commentNo, you're not crazy. You've just bought into the mistaken notion that magazines, TV and other media, including the "News" is anything other than entertainment.
You've made a mild complaint and a confession of confusion, here's a REAL rant:
After 15,000+ years, homosapiens is still version 1.0. The diet dejour is version what - 500? 5000? Doctors who didn't know what caused diabetes 40 years ago, promised a cure would be found within 10 years. Doctors who today still don't know are "hopeful" a cure will be found within the next 20. Medical doctors are practicing an art, not science. Surgeons are highly skilled mechanics who don't have a manufacturer's service manual. Nether will warranty their work, because they don't now what they are doing - it's all guesswork.
Among their reports they include the extremely biased results and opinions of people and organizations who have a vested interest either in maintaining the status quo, or in refuting it. Rarely will you find legitimate research from unbiased researchers.
You need to get past these middlemen and charlatans who more often than not (and you never know when) don't know the difference between a lipid and an iguana.
During the past 80 years, the AMA and the several ADAs, have made flip-flop changes in every one of their dietary recommendation, an NONE of them is based on solid scientific research and legitimate clinical trials. Instead they'll look at a single measurement number like "bad cholesterol", or "blood pressure" decide on a "normal" range for everyone, and then attack any individuals' high or low result with anything that they can find, with little or no regard to interactive side effects. Drugs are adopted and prescribed off label with no rhyme or reason other than drug salesmen's claims or ill-informed patient demands (so much for the Hypocratic oath). Drugs with proven efficacy are abandoned for new ones with no relative efficacy or long term data.
(END RANT)
If you want to get truly confused (and even more frustrated), start looking at the results of clinical trials, or medical research reports in the journals where they are published, weigh the quality and scope of the studies and then decide if any of it applies to you. Then listen to the "news" and see how much what they report varies from the actual findings. You'll be truly amazed.
if you want to adjust your diet to optimize your health, you need to realize that "diet" doesn't just mean what you eat, but includes your total lifestyle, including activity and all forms of stress, including how you choose to react to events. Compare yours to your grandparents, and consider what things you've introduced into yours that didn't exist when they were your age, (or things with the same names that have radically changed in content) and ask yourself "why?" If you can't find an objective reason (backed by [u]research and evidence[/u]) for each one of them, perhaps you should reconsider whether it should be a part of your "diet".
I saw this, too. If you're crazy then I am, too! I can tell you that if I ate that sample breakfast, I would be off kilter with my numbers all day, especially if I started out anything higher than normal. I'm type 2 and started on insulin and a pump within the last year. I need to lose about 150 lbs but would be thrilled to lose the fist 50. I just don't get it. I try and try to lose weight. When I do, I gain it back. I see the endo next week, and I hate the thought of stepping...
I can tell you that if I ate that sample breakfast, I would be off kilter with my numbers all day, especially if I started out anything higher than normal.
I'm type 2 and started on insulin and a pump within the last year. I need to lose about 150 lbs but would be thrilled to lose the fist 50.
I just don't get it. I try and try to lose weight. When I do, I gain it back. I see the endo next week, and I hate the thought of stepping on the scale because she will tell me the obvious.
Most recently, I've followed the carb counting method only to lose little and get stalled. I've been thiking about being more serious with low carb to get myself jump started and only add back whole foods to see what happens. I haven't tried it yet -- didn't think about trying to start that during holiday and it was my birtday yesterday. Now that all of that is finished, I think that I'd have a better chance of success.
Can anyone offer any thoughts, experiences, or motivational encouragement?
Very impressive, Amazing Race. One of my favorite shows. I'm not sure my blood sugars could handle participating in it. It's always great to hear a story like yours. Very inspirational!
View full commentVery impressive, Amazing Race. One of my favorite shows. I'm not sure my blood sugars could handle participating in it.
It's always great to hear a story like yours. Very inspirational!
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