I sent this:-

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Your Diabetic diet plan has been brought to my attention by a fellow
user of a diabetic support group on the internet.

On checking this plan as sampled on this website, it would be totally
unsuitable for me as a type 2 diabetic on oral medication.

60 Grams or more of fast acting carbohydrate at breakfast would cause a
massive hyperglycaemic problem for myself as well as most other type 2
diabetics.

Bananas and Weetabix both contain fast acting carbohydrates, leading to
a a damaging blood glucose level spike, followed by a reactive hypo for
a large number of diabetics.

Risotto also contains very fast acting carbohydrates in the rice, which,
again, for most diabetics would cause a problem with massive peaks in
blood glucose levels.

Pitta bread is high in refined starch, which again would cause problems.

I would very strongly suggest that the published diet be revised to
include slower acting carbohydrates such as those contained in oats,
(Say, Oatibix onstead of Weetabix) & wholemeal cereal products as well
as reducing the total amount of carbohydrates in accordance with
globally recognised guidelines.

For those injecting insulin, the problems are magnified, as the insulin
dose has to be increased to take account of the fast acting nature of
the carbohydrates you specify, which will probably lead to a
hypoglycaemic situation later on.

Your published day's diet on this website would cause me to be
permanently hyperglycaemic, with immediate & long term deleterious
effects on my health. For a diabetic injecting insulin, this type of
diet has been proven to cause a roller coaster ride of high & low
extremes in blood glucose levels, leading to poor control of the
disease, possibly resulting in blindness, kidney failure & the need to
amputate limbs. Such problems were a contributory cause of my brother's
death. He was a type 1 diabetic with poorly controlled blood glucose,
kidney failure, & diabetic retinopathy.

End quote.

Possibly a little over the top, though.

Apologies all!  I copied the url from another post and it was the
wrong one.  The correct URL to see the actual diet is
http://www.tescodiets.com/index.cfm?currpage=dietplans&subsection=dietintro&diet
choice=9&code=350144

I worked out that the total carbs for the day were approx 194 - mostly
in the breakfast of Weetabix minis with skimmed milk, a pro-biotic
drink and a medium banana = 65g - and this at a time when most folks
have most insulin resistance.

Lunch of Pitta, cottage cheese, salad leaves and an apple totalled 49g
Suggested snack 15g
Risotto for dinner approx 39g

No one has, to my knowledge, attacked her personally, though there was
some outraged chit chat in a forum about the  patronising and
condescending manner of her replies + a jokey suggested response which
was not, to my knowledge, sent.  Nothing worse than anyone would say
here, but I guess she may have looked in on the thread.  She certainly
came across in later replies as very defensive.

It's shocking to me, as has already been pointed out, that such people
as Tesco can influence folks because "it must be right" - but then, if
DUK can spout that rubbish what can we expect.

FWIW in the copy of Reach that came last week from Accu-Chek it
actually mentions a "well controlled diabetic" who sticks to a low
carb diet... so perhaps the message is trickling through slowly
slowly..... just wish it was a bit quicker!
Patti
Hba1c 5.5
On Levemir and Novorapid + meds for BP and thyroid
Join us at http://www.diabetes-support.org.uk "The friendly forum!"

My e-mail to her & her reply are quoted elsewhere in the thread.

Hello David.

You've been posting here since April, but I hadn't really
got to know you. So I went back and looked at some of your
posts.

This one stood out:

"My surgery, with a specialist diabetic nurse, tell me that
they have stopped giving out test kits to the newly
diagnosed because they weren't seeing any real benefit.

<snip>
I am feeling O.K. at the moment - no sign of the symptoms
which alerted me to having diabetes - but I sometimes wonder
if I am doing enough. It is hard to tell without symptoms or
a test kit."

Are you testing yet?

I ask because it is difficult to believe that any type 2
following the testing advice advocated here:
http://jennifer.flyingrat.net/
could possibly believe that Tesco diet is anything but
appalling.

The fact that Diebetes UK or the NHS or the ADA may approve
it does not make it less appalling, just more widespread and
more difficult to fight. Nor does it make it a perfectly
reasonable approach. It may be reasonable in a marketing
sense, but not in a health sense.

Incidentally, I signed up to have a look, didn't like the
details I had to provide and tried to unsubscribe - and gave
up trying; it was near impossible. I still keep getting
their emails.

All that aside, I hope you are testing now and using that
excellent advice from Jennifer. If not please consider it.

On smug little balloons, ignorance of post-prandial blood
glucose excursions is definitely not bliss for us.

Cheers, Alan, T2, Australia.
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