Are diabetics the laziest and most apathetic bastards in the world ?

As mentioned yesterday, a member at the forum of flog DCUK started a couple of polls. So a forum that boasts a hundred thousand members and always hundreds of member logged in, and the polls running the thick end of two days, what has the response been like ? Pathetic ! The big read over the last 24 hours is about some goon that scoffed 6 cream eggs. Yep ya couldn't make it up. The way most of the membership bugger about controlling their diabetes, you would think the betus was a equivalent to a minor cold. 

On the poll which asks "Do you think that the importance of reducing the total amount of carbohydrates eaten needs to be made more clear by health care professionals to newly-diagnosed diabetics?"  69 members had voted at the time of writing.

On the poll "Have you found that notably reducing the amount of rice, pasta, potatoes, cereals, and other flour-based foods that you eat has helped with your diabetes control?

Helping with your diabetes control means one or more of the following things.

1) It significantly lowered your hBA1c
2) It helped you lose weight.
3) It minimises or has reduced the medication you need to take.
4) It reduced the amount of insulin you use.
5) It significantly reduced the frequency of hypos.
6) It has controlled or even reversed diabetic complications you were suffering."

Only 61 have bothered to vote. Pitiful I reckon, don't get me wrong, full marks to the people trying to make a difference, I have the highest respect for them. But Jesus Christ they deserve more support than they are getting. If the average fair minded members, put a fraction of the time in as the anti low carb wreckers put in, the forum could have achieved some great things over the years. Sure it has helped me and many others, but when I think what it could have achieved, it's lamentable. 

So, if you read this blog and are a member of the flog, get over there and vote, what ever way you vote get over there and do something, anything other than nothing. It seems the place is a social and cakes and commiserations club rather than a forum to discuss a very serious and life threatening disease, am I right or am I right ?

Eddie

Post edit. Sorry folks I couldn't let this one go, re the polls from Giverny the flog manager.

"Hi all - just so we're clear on this, Xyzzy has been given permission to post this by the research approval team at DCUK."

The "research approval team" The crew that run DCUK couldn't research a button on a teddy bears arse. What pretentious clap trap.