OT: Doctors may be hazardous to your (mental) health - Page 12

> "Sharon Hays" <wrote:
>
>> never, ever mix carbs and proteins in the same meal, but
>> veggies go with
>> everything.)
>
> "veggies" are carbs! ;-)
>
> In a true diabetic diet, EVERYTHING counts. About the only
> "unlimited" thing DH could eat was raw celery.
>

>BEI Design wrote:
>> Pogonip wrote:
>>
>>> The doctor has told him that
>>> for
>>> the next three months (that October test again) he is to
>>> eat NO sugar and NO starch.
>>
>> Ask him/her to define "starch"
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starch
>>
>> "Starch is produced by all green plants as an energy store
>> and is a major food source for humans."
>>
>> and "sugar"
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugarhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar
>>
>> "Sugar as a basic food carbohydrate primarily comes from
>> sugar cane and from sugar beet, but also appears in fruit,
>> honey, sorghum, sugar maple (in maple syrup), and in many
>> other sources.
>>
>> And lookie here, even meat contains some carbohydrates:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat
>> "Adult mammalian muscle flesh consists of roughly 75 percent
>> of water, 19 percent of protein, 2.5 percent of
>> intramuscular fat, 1.2 percent of carbohydrates and 2.3
>> percent of other soluble non-protein substances."
>>
>> Eliminating those two categories of food leaves very little
>> else for your DH to eat. :-(
>>
>> It's all about balance, and moderation.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>That's my take on it. But when the doc tells DH something, he questions
>him and then does what he's told. I, on the other hand, never stop
>arguing. ;-) And since we've been seeing this particular doc for 30
>years now, he doesn't tell me much anymore. He wants me to go get the
>blood test, and I haven't because I don't want to get on this medication
>merry-go-round. He does give me Dyazide, which I like because my ankles
>don't get fat. But I distrust medications because they all have side
>effects, often worse than what they are to treat. Chances are, too,
>that a blood test wouldn't give him anything to jump on, but they're
>only as good as the day they're done anyway.
>Left up to me, DH would be given sensible food to eat, including whole
>grains, and probably less fruit since it is the source of fructose,
>after all. I don't like artificial sweeteners, either, but I do buy
>some things with them for him. I won't eat them myself, though. I
>prefer food from farms, not duPont.
>But I will try to accommodate this craziness. But if DH starts to
>resemble a skeleton, I'm sending him back in for a consult.

> On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:04:21 -0700, in alt.sewing, Pogonip
>
>> BEI Design wrote:
>>> Pogonip wrote:
>>>> The doctor has told him that
>>>> for
>>>> the next three months (that October test again) he is to
>>>> eat NO sugar and NO starch.
>>> Ask him/her to define "starch"
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starch
>>> "Starch is produced by all green plants as an energy store
>>> and is a major food source for humans."
>>> and "sugar"
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugarhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar
>>> "Sugar as a basic food carbohydrate primarily comes from
>>> sugar cane and from sugar beet, but also appears in fruit,
>>> honey, sorghum, sugar maple (in maple syrup), and in many
>>> other sources.
>>> And lookie here, even meat contains some carbohydrates:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat
>>> "Adult mammalian muscle flesh consists of roughly 75 percent
>>> of water, 19 percent of protein, 2.5 percent of
>>> intramuscular fat, 1.2 percent of carbohydrates and 2.3
>>> percent of other soluble non-protein substances."
>>> Eliminating those two categories of food leaves very little
>>> else for your DH to eat. :-(
>>> It's all about balance, and moderation.
>>> HTH,
>> That's my take on it. But when the doc tells DH something, he questions
>> him and then does what he's told. I, on the other hand, never stop
>> arguing. ;-) And since we've been seeing this particular doc for 30
>> years now, he doesn't tell me much anymore. He wants me to go get the
>> blood test, and I haven't because I don't want to get on this medication
>> merry-go-round. He does give me Dyazide, which I like because my ankles
>> don't get fat. But I distrust medications because they all have side
>> effects, often worse than what they are to treat. Chances are, too,
>> that a blood test wouldn't give him anything to jump on, but they're
>> only as good as the day they're done anyway.
>> Left up to me, DH would be given sensible food to eat, including whole
>> grains, and probably less fruit since it is the source of fructose,
>> after all. I don't like artificial sweeteners, either, but I do buy
>> some things with them for him. I won't eat them myself, though. I
>> prefer food from farms, not duPont.
>> But I will try to accommodate this craziness. But if DH starts to
>> resemble a skeleton, I'm sending him back in for a consult.
>
>
> Joanne you can get an A1c test kit at Walmart. You follow instruction
> (very easy to do) and send the kit in and in less than a week they
> will email you the results. I did this one about 2 months ago.
> Rite Aid.com also has kits that give instant readings. This one is
> made by Bayer Aspirin. the Walmart kit was about 13 dollars. The Rite
> Aid one is 2 kits for 30 dollars.
> Karen in northern Ca