Id disagree with what you say, its as much a blanket statement as the nhs recommending a low fat high carb diet. If youre sedentary or pre diabetic then certainly drop the carbs and probably good idea to drop wheat completely for most people, if you’re active and participate in weight training, sports a few times a week its a good idea to eat rice and protein post training to help build and maintain muscle. Id suggest everyone who can does resistance training and the eats carbs at the suitable time.

I agree. My dad was told he pre diabetes. Ive had type 1 diabetes for 25 years so did glucose testing on him and got him on a low carb diet, moderate fat and upped his protein. His post meal glucose dropped to normal ranges, he said he hadnt felt as good in years. Plus he lost weight but thats plateuing now as expected from a low carb diet.
It can be easy to treat with diet but fixing diet doesnt create millions more patients to feed drugs supplied by big pharma.

If there are only a few glucose spikes then I don’t think it’s likely to make a great deal of difference to overall HbA1C

I understand what you suggest about ‘spikes’. But do the handful of spikes (say 5 to 10% of one’s meals) really make a significant impact on HbA1c measurement?

Per my own readings on the subject, it’s not clear at all. If the overall HbA1c measurement is primarily reflecting a small percentage of spikes, it’s a questionable indicator, IMHO.

Don’t waste your time on additional testing.

http://www.ejinme.com/article/S0953-6205(11)00004-5/fulltext by Seneff et al. should be good enough to show that the very last thing you should be doing is reducing LDL cholesterol.

When I asked about this at the surgery, the practice nurse told me they don’t do that because it’s too expensive. Ditto HDL and LDL particle size. It would be good and useful to know though. I thought about ‘going private’ but as I am an OAP I fear it would be beyond my means. (Also, a little voice says ‘why should I?’

I’m also concerned with the ever expanding guidelines for sickness. ..soon it will be so large that no one can escape it.

We are already seeing what happens when large groups become chemically addicted to medications. ..after the patent is gone all of a sudden there’s a shortage. ..which has the effect of tremendously driving up prices…in some cases over a 1000%.

Is a HbA1c high level only due to a sustained high-carb diet over the previous 3 months?

Or, is a high level due to consuming just a few meals being high carb, say 5% of the meals over a 3-month period?

Another way to pose the question: If one has primarily a low-carb lifestyle, does a moderate number of high-carb (50-75g) meals impact HbA1c significantly (dangerously?)?

Medical diagnosis these days is “herd diagnosis” based on epidemiological studies. It is not an individual diagnosis. Statin therapy is an example of this. The large majority of the “herd” so diagnosed will not suffer a heart attack or benefit from treatment in the next 10 years.

Risk is a medical ruse to get the herd on treatment for trivial benefits to the individual but vast profits for the commercial interests!

Have you ever had your insulin levels measured? This is a measurement that seems to be rarely done in the NHS, which I find odd given the uses of sulphonureas to boost insulin (low insulin) while high insulin is associated with CVD.

RESULT: Obestity, metabolic syndrome, diabetes and Type 3 diabetes (some researchers believe Alzheimer’s is a diabetic condition)

I find it frustrating that the youngsters of today are accusing sugar as if it was a brand new research finding; it merely displays their ignorance.

Senneff et al (European Journal of Internal Medicine Volume 22, Issue 2 , Pages 134-140, April 2011) has also demonstrated an association between hicarb intake and Azheimer’s which ties in with the diabetes Type 3 concept.

My question is whether the medical establishment, Big Commerce et al and their experts will ever consider this aspect. Somehow I doubt it – scientific integrity has been replaced as a priority by money, power and status!