Clique remnants, what are they trying to achieve ?

Over the last four years over at diabetes.co.uk there have been countless lowcarb arguments. Hundreds of threads involving hundreds of people. Hundreds have left the forum, either banned or got worn down listening to the same small band of antis turning almost every carb discussion into a heated argument. The arguments have ranged from, is lowcarbing safe to is lowcarbing sustainable etc. etc.. The lowcarb argument has a new twist. Almost everyone wants to be a lowcarber, who would have ever thought that. 50 carbs per day is about the limit for most genuine low carbers, but that number has gone out of the window at d.co.uk. One member stated yesterday “I now eat between 80 - 150g of carbs a day, I no longer count them so that is a guestimate, but I do call myself a low carber” As I said earlier, almost everyone wants to be in the lowcarb club. How any straight thinking person describes themselves as a low carber, on that carb intake beggars belief. I can see why almost anyone would want to be in the lowcarb club, because for four years almost all the good news regarding blood glucose control, lipid improvement, weight loss and medication reduction has been achieved by lowcarbers. I pray that 150 carbs per day, for a lowcarber does not become the norm at d.co.uk, if it does, then the lowcarb success rate will go down hill fast.

There are no guarantees in this life, and that is certainly the case with diabetes, there are some constants. As I said earlier, hundreds of threads involving hundreds of people. Hundreds have left the forum, either banned or got worn down listening to the same small band of antis, turning almost every carb discussion into a heated argument. All that time, all those people, most of them gone, but one constant remains, the remnants of Kens clique. Noblehead, Sid Bonkers, phoenix and catherinecherub. None of them lowcarbers, all staunchly low fat. All happy with their healthcare professionals, all have access to test strips, two on insulin, one on a nil meds low gi diet, and one, well, I don’t know what he is on, I doubt whether he knows most of the time. My point, why have these four individuals, made the vilification of lowcarb and high fat a full time job. I fully appreciate that lowcarbing is not the only way to control diabetes. These people have proved it. They all have good stats and are doing very well, and I hope that continues. The reasons I find these people appalling, is their attitude to lowcarbing and high fat methods of diabetes control.They have all the advantages in their control of diabetes. Knowledge, good healthcare professionals, test strips, insulin and one on a pump. Others have nothing to help them. Medication withdrawn or withheld, no insulin, no insulin pump and no prescribed test strips. With the demise of the NHS as we know it, the situation for most diabetics will get worse. For the majority of diabetics, the DUK and NHS dietary advice is pitiful, as evidenced by the appalling diabetes statistics each year. No progress is being made, last week DUK stated strokes and kidney failure was on the increase, the NHS and DUK have failed completely to reduce complications and HbA1c numbers for many.

Lowcarbing is, and will remain, the salvation for so many diabetics. Why four individuals have made it their life’s work, to confuse and disrupt, is utterly beyond me. What if I am wrong, what if lowcarbing and a higher fat diet is not the way to go ? Does my opinion matter a jot. In the big scheme, no, I am but one voice. But over the years, I have heard thousands of voices at d.co.uk, and they are telling it load and clear, lowcarbing has been their salvation. I have yet to see a post stating ‘I have increased my carbs and medication and it has improved my BG, my lipids, my weight, my anything’ No doubt some will see this post as bullying, but the four named people can come here and discuss the issues raised. They can have a free voice over here, that was denied to many in Kens days, and the clique added and abetted him at every opportunity. Come over and tell me how a type two diabetic can control their diabetes, with nil or minimal meds, and in many cases not even a prescribed test strip, other than lowcarbing. Tell me how cholesterol ratios can be improved, blood glucose reduced to non diabetic, blood pressure reduced, fatty livers healed, weight reduced to a safe level and more. I have waited for answers from antis for nearly four years, I am still waiting.


Eddie