I really enjoyed this talk from Wendy Pogozelski
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Hi Brian,
I enjoyed this TED talk about nutrition and Type 1 diabetes. I watched it with the “closed captioning,” though, which was totally off the wall and hilarious! If you have the time, you might check it out again with the captioning.
Best wishes,
marty1492
Brian - Great video! It’s nice when a person with a strong credential can also give an authoritative experience as a diabetic. She retraced the successful path that many of us took as a diabetic discovering the validity of using the low-carb way of eating to keep blood sugar normal. I love the concise presentations that are the hallmark of the TED talks. I think that the low carb way of eating is slowly gaining traction in the mainstream medical world.
I’m trying to think about the upcoming Hope Warshaw TuD video and how I will participate, if at all. I want to be respectful but I totally reject her worldview on nutrition and diabetes.
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I also find that I get angry and upset with institutions and experts that we as patients are encouraged to trust but who fail to demonstrate independent, objective and scientific evidence based approaches. Sadly there is a cadre of people and institutions who have built up major barriers to alternate thinking. And for them to admit that perhaps they are wrong would essentially destroy their careers and their institutions. I suspect this is why the ADA has quietly divested itself of the nutrition debacle. First they spun out the people and nutrition guidelines activity to the AND. And then they started saying “individualized” nutrition plans and not taking a position.
The real challenge is that I feel like I need to engage and talk with the Hope Warshaw’s of the world if we are to make a change. @askmanny was always able to do that, he could talk with anyone to bring them together to collaborate. This is something I have to work on. I’ll be at AADE this year, Hope is the president. I expect I will talk with her as I did at the AADE meeting in 2013. Hopefully it goes better.
I do think passionate communication on this issue is what’s needed from our community. The total dismissal of a low carb high fat (LCHF) as a rational first line of treatment for diabetes by the the formal medical institutions is outrageous. Rightful indignation is appropriate from us. Their approach harms our community.
When I think of the AIDs community in the 1980s and 1990s, they were highly effective using passion and anger as appropriate response to an outrageous societal non-response to the burgeoning AIDs crisis. I think the Hope Warshaw’s of the world need to feel a certain amount of heat from us. We probably won’t convince her but the “people in the room” could gain much from that conflict.
Conflict can be productive if it is controlled and doesn’t degrade to name-calling.
When and where is the AADE meeting?
I watched the presentation, which I thought was good,
I have a question for you all. I took my DE classes in 2009 whcih included 14 hours of lectures and discussion as a group and 12 invidual meetings. More if you wanted.
My point is that this presentation was like the introduction which lasted about an hour. I checked even some the same graphics! Then we really concentrated on how we could create our own plan that worked for us individually.
What type of education did you all have?
The course was for newly diagnosed (T2 and Adult T1)