YASSSS!!!! Love this article. Unfortunately, once you plant a "seed" truth or not; it seems to continue to float around like a rumor. Very frustrating.
That was a good one! I was a CDE (Certified diabetes educator) and paediatric nurse for many years in the diabetes clinic at the Montreal Children’s Hospital. Our Dpt would’ve had a good laugh at that chiropractor. Sugar is sugar is sugar. The message is eat less refined (junk) foods, no more. By the way, I don’t have T1D but I personally used all the new technology as part of my job to learn and teach it to the kids and/or parents, including continuous glucose monitors. In my opinion they’re useless for non-diabetics because they’re designed to detect, with precision, dangerous glucose fluctuations. They rely on things like “area under the curve” mathematical calculations to create alarms, averages, and other clinical data. With a healthy pancreas, these fluctuations don’t occur to any significant degree, so they lose accuracy and become meaningless. I suspect to be useful, a new mathematical model would need to be developed, but why bother?
Much like the hype over taking collagen by mouth for skin, muscle and joints. You mention an endocrinologist in this article, there are defiitely competent and incompetent in this area of medicine too.
I appreciate distinguishing fact from fiction here and yet for some people with IBS, the type of sugar does make a difference. Some of us with IBS cannot absorb fructose - honey, HFCS, or foods high in fructose (like apples) can trigger an episode of IBS but sucrose (maple syrup, table sugar and other fruits that have less fructose) don’t. As someone who has gone through the process of identifying what FODMAPs are triggers, it’s clear to me that my body can tell the difference between foods high in fructose. (Some people are even born with a hereditary fructose intolerance.) Luckily, it might not cause intestinal distress for most people but there is a difference for some of us.
I'm guessing (and will do research) that all the new hype about 'Colostrum' supplements are equally as dubious or the idea that menopausal women should be ingesting Collagen w/Verisol - this last one hawked by an MD
YASSSS!!!! Love this article. Unfortunately, once you plant a "seed" truth or not; it seems to continue to float around like a rumor. Very frustrating.
That was a good one! I was a CDE (Certified diabetes educator) and paediatric nurse for many years in the diabetes clinic at the Montreal Children’s Hospital. Our Dpt would’ve had a good laugh at that chiropractor. Sugar is sugar is sugar. The message is eat less refined (junk) foods, no more. By the way, I don’t have T1D but I personally used all the new technology as part of my job to learn and teach it to the kids and/or parents, including continuous glucose monitors. In my opinion they’re useless for non-diabetics because they’re designed to detect, with precision, dangerous glucose fluctuations. They rely on things like “area under the curve” mathematical calculations to create alarms, averages, and other clinical data. With a healthy pancreas, these fluctuations don’t occur to any significant degree, so they lose accuracy and become meaningless. I suspect to be useful, a new mathematical model would need to be developed, but why bother?
Much like the hype over taking collagen by mouth for skin, muscle and joints. You mention an endocrinologist in this article, there are defiitely competent and incompetent in this area of medicine too.
I appreciate distinguishing fact from fiction here and yet for some people with IBS, the type of sugar does make a difference. Some of us with IBS cannot absorb fructose - honey, HFCS, or foods high in fructose (like apples) can trigger an episode of IBS but sucrose (maple syrup, table sugar and other fruits that have less fructose) don’t. As someone who has gone through the process of identifying what FODMAPs are triggers, it’s clear to me that my body can tell the difference between foods high in fructose. (Some people are even born with a hereditary fructose intolerance.) Luckily, it might not cause intestinal distress for most people but there is a difference for some of us.
I'm guessing (and will do research) that all the new hype about 'Colostrum' supplements are equally as dubious or the idea that menopausal women should be ingesting Collagen w/Verisol - this last one hawked by an MD