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Tuesday 26 January 2016

DCUK Forum of flog issues warning.

"If you are looking into LCHF for your child, please speak to your child's diabetes consultant and paediatrician first. 

There are indeed many benefits to LCHF - however, a substantial dietary adaptation should not be undertaken by children without appropriate input and monitoring from a health team to ensure the child's growth is normal and their nutritional needs are being met at all stages of their childhood.

By all means, ask questions, share your views and engage in discussion - but please speak to your child's diabetes team too."


Posted by the diabetes.co.uk forum administrator 26th. January 2016 here.

The forum known as the 'Flog' because it tries to sell products and services to it's members at every opportunity. When it is not selling members private information to big pharma companies for drug trials, issues a warning re. the Low carb higher fat diet to parents of diabetic children. 

This is somewhat surprising, because so impressed are the forums management with the LCHF diet for adults, they have put together their own training program for low carb. Admittedly, it is primarily a marketing tool, to extract ever more private information from the members. Clearly, they have publicly given low carb their seal of approval, but why the warning? Keep in mind, low carb higher healthy fat promoters are recommending eating whole fresh food, and staying well clear of factory produced high sugar/starch junk.

Is this a back covering exercise? DCUK must know the majority of 'experts' are against LCHF for adults, let alone children, although this attitude is changing fast. The low fat high carb diet has proved to be an unmitigated disaster, for not only diabetics, but the general population. The forum management should also know, some of the best controlled type one diabetic children in the world, are low carbers, as can be seen by clicking on the links below. 

It seems fair to me, the management should consider posting up the links below, on their forum. It offers balance to their post today, that's if they believe a whole fresh food approach is the way forward for diabetics. All diabetics, including children.  

Eddie

Typeonegrit the Facebook site of the low carb type one diabetic children, holding blood glucose numbers very few diabetics ever achieve is here.


4 comments:

cecil said...

of course its a back covering exercise. they're a commercial entity issuing health advice. what if someone were to get ill (unlikely, but hypothetically speaking) based on their advice? i don't think someone would hesitate to sue!

surely you don't want to see a company trying to make an honest dollar by giving advice that really works get sued? that would set things back by many years, as diabetes.co.uk really are the front runners in promoting the benefits of low carb. i am sure doctor unwin would agree with this comment also.

Lowcarb team member said...

Hi Cecil

So, low carb higher fat is safe for adults, and worthy of another flog tactic to lure the punters in, but don't try this at home for kids. Please remember, a low carb higher natural fats diet is whole fresh food from the farm and the sea.

Thank you for your comment.

Eddie

Lowcarb team member said...

cecil said...

of course its a back covering exercise. they're a commercial entity issuing health advice. what if someone were to get ill (unlikely, but hypothetically speaking) based on their advice? i don't think someone would hesitate to sue!

surely you don't want to see a company trying to make an honest dollar by giving advice that really works get sued? that would set things back by many years, as diabetes.co.uk really are the front runners in promoting the benefits of low carb. i am sure doctor unwin would agree with this comment also.


cecil low carb was first promoted on DCUK by Fergus in 2007 and it was the members then that were the front runners of the LC movement not DCUK. We joined in 2008 and it increased in popularity and now it has gone mainstream. Now in that time there was what as we described as a clique comprising of a few anti low carb zealots led by a an unhinged moderator who spent their time doing their level best to run down low carb.

Were are those anti's now you might ask, it just so happens they form a large unrepresentative majority of the moderation team of which there is not one low carber.

As far as Dr Unwin goes I'm sure he is unaware of the fact most of those who did respond enthusiastically to his earlier posts have either been banned of left due to the anti LC oppressive nature of the present moderation team.

Facts before fiction
Graham

chris c said...

Honest dollar? You're having a larf.