tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71180818300090914332024-03-05T05:29:57.809+00:00The Lowcarb Diabetic“The reality is that over the years, and around the world we have killed literally millions of diabetics by advising them to eat a high-carb diet and avoid fats. Only now is it being recognised that previous advice was and remains useless, dangerous and scientifically illiterate" Dr Malcolm Kendrick “Some say I am too strict concerning the control of BG numbers, I have no choice, nothing else works” Dr. Richard Bernstein.Team memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09074149731395280490noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118081830009091433.post-59188177884754784532013-06-25T18:38:00.002+01:002013-06-25T18:38:36.476+01:00WhitbyJet<a href="http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/community/councillor-defends-alien-sex-claims-1-5778991">http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/community/councillor-defends-alien-sex-claims-1-5778991</a><br />
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KarenTeam memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09074149731395280490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118081830009091433.post-65155989171000397472012-12-11T13:33:00.000+00:002012-12-11T13:33:05.043+00:00Naivety of Diabetics and the Medical Profession<br />
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You must be rather naïve if you
expect read in any publication associated with the medical profession, the
connection between carbohydrate intake and diabetes complications. That would
be tantamount to admitting years of failure of public policy based on a belief
in medication alone – oral for Type 2, insulin for Type 1. Previous posts on
this blog have referenced the ineffectiveness of the medication and the educational
courses DESMOND and DAFNE. Until the medical profession (and the diabetics
themselves) realise it is extremely unlikely (if not impossible) for the
majority of diabetics to eat a ‘normal’ meal and achieve ‘normal’ blood glucose
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In response to the attitude of
the medical profession: in any other aspect of public policy, years of failure
would have led to a fundamental review of the policy. And yet, new oral
medications continue to be developed offering marginal improvement in HbA1c, courses
are offered for advice on the use of insulin for ‘NORMAL’ meals and the
appalling statistics for HbA1c and complications continue. Does anybody at NICE or even
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<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, lucida grande, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This so called caring Doctor who is a disgrace to his profession is suggesting the patients with Diabetes and other so called life style health illnesses should pay for their medications and I don't just mean the prescription charge, he implies we should be paying the full cost price that is charged to the NHS.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, lucida grande, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">What this well heeled idiot fails to grasp is the high prevalence of Type 2 in Deprived areas who are living below or on the poverty line, they can barely afford the basic necessities let alone fund their own medications. Who's going to pick up the pieces when they can't afford the medications and they get complications that need urgent hospital treatment, that's of course if they can get free NHS care in the future.</span><br />
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GrahamTeam memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09074149731395280490noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118081830009091433.post-25816482893831296902012-11-27T12:59:00.000+00:002012-11-27T13:00:57.687+00:00The health foods doctors say don't work:<br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">I don’t go near Benecol or any other margarine-type products that claim to lower cholesterol and I advise my patients to stay clear of them, too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">First, they are expensive; second, these products are artificial, packed with unnatural products that really can’t do you any good; and third, I don’t believe there is any demonstrable health benefit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They may have a very marginal effect on cholesterol, but — and this is critical — this hasn’t been established as having any clinical benefit in reducing the risk of a heart attack. In short, the whole saturated fat argument has been ridiculously overhyped. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A review of studies in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2010, which analysed almost 350,000 people for up to 23 years, revealed no consistent evidence linking saturated fat and cardiovascular disease.</span></span></div>
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Selway’s <a href="http://instinctive-fitness.com/" style="color: black;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Instinctive Fitness plan</span></a> modifies the largely meat-based paleolithic diet, and includes potatoes, wild rice, parsnips, quinoa and buckwheat. “What’s not up for negotiation is avoiding sugar and wheat,” he says, “and the total rejection of processed foods.”<br />
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The strict paleo diet belongs to the health-freak category, the sort who doesn’t drink and, like Matthew McConnaughey, a vocal paleo, exercises with rocks, in bare feet. What is interesting about it, as with Atkins previously, is its acceptance of something that has been demonised for a generation. Saturated fat has for years been presumed and, it is claimed, scientifically proven to cause high cholesterol, heart disease, cancer, strokes and big bottoms. Opinion is changing, though, and not just among diet kooks. For every paper that says eating fats causes all these modern diseases, there are as many that say they are not and might even protect us.<br />
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Dr Alison Law, a GP, is an exponent of the sat-fat diet, even though she is supposed to advise patients differently. When she was looking for “a quick fix to lose post-pregnancy flab”, she went on a high-fat diet. “We are taught that a diet low in saturated fat and high in carbs is good for patients. Low-carb, high-fat diets are viewed sceptically by the medical community,” she says. “But after reading the physiology behind the sat-fat diets, it made sense.” Law has stuck with this “semi-paleo” diet. A typical meal for her is roast butternut squash with parma ham and rocket, or steak with roast veg. She has the occasional pigout on cakes and pudding, but mostly confines sweetness in her diet to 85%-cocoa chocolate.<br />
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I spoke to others who claim to be “sort of paleo”, including neolithic wine, butter and cheese in their menus; their rejection of starchy and processed carbs, however, is total. There’s no doubt about it, these people are shrugging off department of health guidelines and braving the dangers of eating saturated fat in far greater quantities than the government says is good for them. And while sat-fat makes its way back onto the menu, the processed-food manufacturers are under increasing attack. The heavyweight lawyers in America who won hundreds of millions of dollars for their clients from the big tobacco companies have filed lawsuits against some of the biggest players. Their argument is not about excessive fat content in processed food, but the misleading labelling.<br />
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Professor Tom Sanders, head of diabetes and nutritional sciences at King’s College, London, sees a logic to people who let their gut decide their diet rather than government guidelines. “Fat intake has fallen in Britain,” he says. “There’s been a 50% reduction in the past 10 years, and yet obesity and diabetes are rising. If you like a marbled steak, fine — saturated fat from the source is not evil — but trim the fat off your meat and give it to the cat.” Not because it will harm you, he says, but because it will make you fat. “It’s not meat that is harmful — it’s the rubbish in processed meat products.”<br />
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All natural fats have functions for health; they are not inherently bad. They carry many vitamins that cannot be absorbed in any other way, as well as flavour. Sanders calls margarine “the devil’s semen” and is glad butter has overtaken it in popularity again. Man-made trans fats in margarines and processed foods such as cakes, biscuits and pastries are made from artificially hardened, partially hydrogenated fats, and have been banned in Denmark, Switzerland, Austria and parts of the United States, notably California and New York.<br />
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Emma Cannon, a respected traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioner and fertility expert, says we have been reducing our fat intake for more than health reasons. “There are many people who would benefit from more fat in their diet,” she says. “I see a lot of women who say they are committed to having babies, yet I often find they are more committed to being thin. We’ve got some really crossed wires on healthy eating. In TCM, pork fat is used as a tonic.”<br />
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While people have been told for decades to cut saturated fat from their diet, they have replaced it with what some studies suggest is more harmful: refined carbohydrates. One Australian study found that a high-fat, low-carb diet was no more likely to cause heart disease than a high-carb, low-fat one. However, it was a more effective means of weight loss and less likely to cause diabetes.<br />
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The largest ever controlled study of diet, conducted by the University of Copenhagen in 2010, concluded that “current dietary recommendations are not good enough to prevent overweight persons from gaining weight. You should cut down on finely refined starch calories such as white bread and white rice”.<br />
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Zoë Harcombe, an obesity researcher and author of The Obesity Epidemic, says forgetting about calories and eating a diet of real food is the best route to healthy weight and good nutrition. Natural foods and grass-fed meats have a beneficial mix of all the different types of fats, and to isolate saturated fat is irrational because nowhere in nature does it exist alone. Even lard is only 39% saturated fat (compared to butter, which is 63%), the rest being mostly monounsaturated fat. Cheese is especially high in saturated fat. However, it is what Sanders calls “micronutrient dense”. “You get a lot of nutrients per calorie.” “Similarly, oily fish such as smoked mackerel is high in saturated fat and salt, but you won’t go on eating it long after you’ve had enough, unlike Pringles.”<br />
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It is this nutrient density that makes Harcombe believe “real” food cannot harm us. She’s not anti oats, as a paleo would be, but, “an egg for breakfast, cooked in butter, spanks porridge nutritionally”. The University of Wales at Newport has banned any mention of her in its nutrition class because she won’t stick to official guidelines. “It astounds me that I am seen as radical,” she says, “because all I’m saying is eat real food. Meanwhile, the fake food, like sugary cereals, has an army of dieticians to recommend it.”<br />
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Sanders offers a word of caution on fatty binges, particularly at this time of year. He describes an unusually high number of heart attacks in middle-aged men after the Christmas blowout. “Then again,” he chuckles, “that could be about exposure to family.”<br />
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<b>The sat-fat revival<br /><br />OUT </b><br />
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Porridge<br />
Benecol<br />
Honey<br />
Large skinny latte with sweetener<br />
Tuna niçoise with low-fat dressing<br />
Sliced turkey breast<br />
Reduced-fat hummus<br />
Müller Light<br />
Skinny popcorn<br />
Snack a Jacks<br />
Steamed cod<br />
Processed low-fat ham<br />
Lean steak, grilled<br />
Diet hot chocolate<br />
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Omelette and herbs<br />
Butter<br />
Peanut butter<br />
Americano with cream and cinnamon<br />
Avocado, chilli, lemon and olive oil<br />
Roast pork and crackling<br />
Unpasteurised cheese<br />
Greek yoghurt, mixed berries<br />
Toasted sunflower seeds<br />
Cashew nuts<br />
Pan-fried salmon<br />
Organic, unsalted bacon<br />
Sirloin sautéed in butter<br />
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GrahamTeam memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09074149731395280490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118081830009091433.post-76704198008874195022012-11-23T15:32:00.000+00:002012-11-23T15:32:03.948+00:00Prevalence of Diabetes in U.S. Youth Set to Rise Considerably<br />
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(HealthDay News) – Projected estimates suggest considerable increases in the prevalence of Type 1 and 2 diabetes among youth by 2050, according to research published in the December issue of <i style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Diabetes Care</i>.</div>
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Giuseppina Imperatore, MD, PhD, from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and colleagues used a Markov modeling framework to generate yearly forecasts of the number of individuals <20 years with and without diabetes through 2050. Based on the 2001 prevalence and 2002 incidence, two scenarios were considered for Type 1 and 2 diabetes incidence: a constant incidence over time and an increased incidence (varying increase with age for Type 1 diabetes and a constant 2.3% increase across all ages for Type 2 diabetes).</div>
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Under Scenario 1, the researchers projected that the number of youth with Type 1 diabetes would increase from 166,018 in 2010 to 203,382 in 2050. For Type 2 diabetes, the increase would be from 20,203 to 30,111. Under Scenario 2, there would be an increase in the number of youth with Type 1 diabetes, from 179,388 in 2010 to 587,488 in 2050 (prevalence of 2.13 and 5.2 per 1,000 respectively). The largest increases would be in youth of minority racial and ethnic groups. For Type 2 diabetes there would be an increase from 22,820 in 2010 to 84,131 in 2050, an increase in prevalence from 0.27 to 0.75 per 1,000.</div>
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"Our projections indicate a serious picture of the future national diabetes burden in youth," the authors write. "Even if the incidence remains at 2002 levels, because of the population growth projected by the U.S. Census the future numbers of youth with diabetes is projected to increase."</div>
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Team memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09074149731395280490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118081830009091433.post-34974453136039583842012-11-22T20:15:00.003+00:002012-11-22T20:15:25.707+00:00NHS Diabetes: DAFNE and DESMOND<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you show the appalling NHS results (highlighted in
the 2 following posts):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #00b050;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.lowcarbdiabeticuk.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/nhs-diabetes-care-processes.html"><span style="color: #00b050;">http://www.lowcarbdiabeticuk.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/nhs-diabetes-care-processes.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #00b050;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.lowcarbdiabeticuk.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/nhs-diabetes-treatment-targets.html"><span style="color: #00b050;">http://www.lowcarbdiabeticuk.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/nhs-diabetes-treatment-targets.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to a GP or a HCP they will often reply that the
results are due to the patient’s non-compliance or ignorance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is then of some interest to examine the results
for patients who have received the NHS diabetic education course for Type 1 and
Type 2 diabetes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>structured education programme DAFNE (Dose
Adjustment For Normal Eating)</span> is for Type 1 diabetes. A recent
publication:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #00b050;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1464-5491.2011.03525.x/abstract"><span style="color: #00b050;">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1464-5491.2011.03525.x/abstract</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">assessed
HbA</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">1c</span> over a 7-year period following such a course. Over
the7 year period a reduction in HbA1c from an average of 8.6% to an average of
8.3% was achieved<span class="apple-converted-space">.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The DESMOND Programme (</span><em><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal;">Diabetes
Education Self-Management On-going</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">and Newly<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal;">Diagnosed)
is for Type 2 diabetes. A recent publication:<o:p></o:p></span></em></span></span></div>
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<em><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #00b050; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.bmj.com/highwire/filestream/581436/field_highwire_article_pdf/0.pdf"><span style="color: #00b050;">http://www.bmj.com/highwire/filestream/581436/field_highwire_article_pdf/0.pdf</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal;">concluded:
“</span></em><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">a single programme for
people with newly diagnosed type </span><span style="background: white;"><span style="text-align: start;">2 diabetes mellitus showed no difference in
biomedical or lifestyle </span></span><span style="background: white;"><span style="text-align: start;">outcomes at three years although there were
sustained improvements </span></span><span style="background: white;"><span style="text-align: start;">in some illness beliefs</span>.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<em><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Summarising:<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Appalling diabetes statistics<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Educational programmes bring no
significant improvement<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The consequences for the future
are well known<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A
recent publication:<o:p></o:p></span></span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121002171624.htm"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121002171624.htm</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Used information from national databases representing over 20 000
patients from 2005 to 2008, Scottish researchers led by Helen Colhoun from the
University of Dundee, found that people with type 1 diabetes have 2 to 3 times
the risk of heart attacks, strokes, or premature death than the general
population and that this increased risk is higher in women than in men. The
authors found that in those with type 1 diabetes, the risk (chance) of having a
cardiovascular event (heart attack or stroke) for the first time was 2.5 higher
in men and 3.2 higher in women, than in the general Scottish population.
Furthermore, in those with type 1 diabetes, death rates from any cause were 2.6
higher in men and 2.7 higher in women than in the general Scottish population.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Worryingly, the authors also found that the majority of patients in this
Scottish dataset had poorly controlled blood glucose levels, with only 13%
having HbA1c levels (a test that measures the blood sugar control over the
previous 3 months) in the target range.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">They continue: "A striking feature of the data is the very low rate
of achievement of glycaemic control targets."</span> The authors add: "Risk factor management should be improved to
further reduce risk but better treatment approaches for achieving good
glycaemic control are badly needed.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal;">What
better treatment approach for achieving </span></em>good glycaemic control would you suggest?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Team memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09074149731395280490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118081830009091433.post-74388341096016388652012-11-22T15:21:00.002+00:002012-11-22T15:21:26.796+00:00Link Between Vitamin D Deficiency And Type 1 Diabetes !<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">A study led by researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has found a correlation between</span><a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/195878.php" style="background-color: white; color: #990099; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: initial;" title="What Are Vitamins? What Vitamins Do I Need?">vitamin</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> D3 serum levels and subsequent incidence of Type 1 </span><a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/info/diabetes/" style="background-color: white; color: #990099; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: initial;" title="What is Diabetes?">diabetes</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">. The six-year study of blood levels of nearly 2,000 individuals suggests a preventive role for vitamin D3 in this disease. The research appears the December issue of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Diabetologia</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">, a publication of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD). </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">"Previous studies proposed the existence of an association between </span><a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/161618.php" style="background-color: white; color: #990099; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: initial;" title="What Is Vitamin D? What Are The Benefits Of Vitamin D?">vitamin D</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> deficiency and risk of and Type 1 diabetes, but this is the first time that the theory has been tested in a way that provides the dose-response relationship," said Cedric Garland, DrPH, FACE, professor in UCSD's Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">This study used samples from millions of blood serum specimens frozen by the Department of Defense Serum Registry for disease surveillance. The researchers thawed and analyzed 1000 samples of serum from healthy people who later developed type 1 diabetes and 1000 healthy controls whose blood was drawn on or near the same date but who did not develop type 1 diabetes. By comparing the serum concentrations of the predominant circulating form of vitamin D - 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) - investigators were able to determine the optimal serum level needed to lower an individual's risk of developing type 1 diabetes. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Based mainly on results of this study, Garland estimates that the level of 25(OH)D needed to prevent half the cases of type 1 diabetes is 50 ng/ml. A consensus of all available data indicates no known risk associated with this dosage. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">"While there are a few conditions that influence vitamin D metabolism, for most people, 4000 IU per day of vitamin D3 will be needed to achieve the effective levels," Garland suggested. He urges interested patients to ask their health care provider to measure their serum 25(OH)D before increasing vitamin D3 intake. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">"This beneficial effect is present at these intakes only for vitamin D3," cautioned Garland. 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<strong>HOFUF </strong>— The subjects of cholesterol, statins and statistics, the hot topics of debate in an increasingly sceptical medical world, came under attack at the King of Organs heart conference in Hofuf Tuesday.<br /><br />The overall impression that evolved from the presentations was summed up in the words of Dr. Malcom Kendrik, “The whole cholesterol thing is bunk”.<br /><br />A phalanx of speakers and researchers qualified to present such a controversial stance against the mainstream medical establishment what was, in the esoteric world of cardiovascular specialists, a declaration of turf war. “The war against manipulation of data starts here, and about time too,” were the un-attributable words of one professor of cardiovascular medicine.<br /><br />Prof. Paul Rosch, Clinical Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, launched the opening salvo of the Hofuf campaign.<br /><br />In a systematic analysis of the published figures and claims supporting statins, he highlighted the flaws and contradictions in the claims by manufacturers of the drug and reviewed the semantic confusion he found in works about statins. “There is a confusion between association and causation,” he said and identified it as an underlying factor in what he saw as the current misinformation about statins.<br /><br />As a coup de grace in his presentation he stated: “All statins are carcinogenic in laboratory animals when used in clinical doses.”<br /><br />Dr. Malcom Kendrick, Executive Member of the International Network of Cholesterol Sceptics, opened a second campaign, this one aimed at myths about high fat diets and the dangers of cholesterol.<br /><br />“We are told that if we eat a high fat diet and have high cholesterol we will have a heart attack.”<br /><br />He presented a powerful case, from wide ranging statistical evidence and constructed an argument that countered the contention. He detailed the impossibility of cholesterol lining arteries in the way fat lines a pipe and demonstrated that in fact the nature of the epithelium, the layer of cells that forms the lining of arteries, “lets nothing past it does not want to. To say that it lets stuff through is as stupid as my saying I can walk through walls.”<br /><br />He showed that in reality the epithelium has to be damaged to allow the formation of fat behind it and then the “skin” grows back. He noted that despite the evidence, the popular image of “fat in pipes” was the one that sold and stuck.<br /><br />That, he said, was important as campaigns had been mounted with equally specious “facts” to support them and gave the example of an anti-smoking campaign in the UK that linked smoking to the buildup of fat in arteries, “but offered no explanation to support it”. Even more importantly although cholesterol, fat and strokes have been inextricably linked by campaigns and in the public mind, “no one has ever found a link between cholesterol and stroke death.”<br /><br />To illustrate that “the whole cholesterol thing is bunk,” he pointed to the case of Japan, among other nations as proof. In 50 years, fat consumption has risen by 200 percent, cholesterol by 60 percent but cases of heart disease have dropped by 40 percent.<br /><br />Kendrick went on to make a case for the part that stress played in heart disease and showed positive links between lifestyle and both chronic and acute points of stress in life. Causes varied from combat trauma through bullying to child abuse – all were factors in stress and were all important factors.<br /><br />Using his own dietary challenge as an example, Prof. David Diamond looked critically at the relationship between bad science, politics and commercial profit as he traced the history of diets from the 19th century onward. He came to the conclusion that fat, far from having a deleterious effect has in most cases the opposite. The idea of the meat, fat and vegetables diet he thought was neither new nor incorrect. It had been recycled several times in history. Indeed, an all animal-product diet was standard for several cultures – Inuit in Alaska, Sami in Finland and Masai in Kenya – where heart disease and cancer were almost unheard of.<br /><br />The idea that fat food was linked to arteriosclerosis he contended was propagated originally by Ancel Keys, who became the national food guru during the McCarthy era in the 1950s. One essential factor left out of Keys’ research into the cause of heart conditions was sugar. It was carbohydrates that were the real enemy, said Diamond, in the form of sugars and starches.<br /><br />The idea of fat and heart disease stuck with the public and a whole industry developed promoting fat-free foods; the net effect is that because the majority contain high quantities of sugar and carbohydrates in other forms, that obesity in the US, for example, has risen, not declined.<br /><br />With this, Diamond opined, arose a whole industry to control the effects of a diet that caused the problems. He concluded that there was a choice between statins or low to zero carbohydrate diet – leaving out bread, potatoes rice and sugar. “Dark chocolate is a far better drug to take than statins,” he said.<br /><br />Kendrick concluded his campaigning day by asking the conference to consider the methods of and reasons behind data manipulation. It was, he said, outrageous and largely unchallenged and should be stopped. His presentation drew loud applause after he detailed the extent of the habit in commerce, the publication of papers and research.<br /><br />Kendrick showed published statistical samples were manipulated to prove a case, unsupportive data hidden, accurate research that was not acceptable to mainstream thought published in low circulation minor publications, threats of funding withdrawal from research projects that seemed to be producing the “wrong” results and outright peer pressure – bullying by another name.<br /><br />The solution he thought includes independent review bodies with statutory powers to impose effective sanctions, a common statistical method so that results could be compared accurately and great personal skepticism.<br /><br />On its final day (Wednesday) the conference moves into more esoteric areas of debate on the outer fringes of research into the electromagnetic aspects of the heart and body taking center stage.</div>
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I'll always remember the day my then four-year-old daughter's class were sent home with a diet sheet from the local authority. It advised that if your child became hungry between meals, you could try giving them a sugar-free jelly. Sure! That'll fill them up – a mix of gelatin, sweeteners, colouring and water.</div>
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For a long time official nutritional theory was largely negative. A food was 'good' if it had zero fat, zero sugar or zero cholesterol. This was a joyless way of looking at the process of eating. And it didn't work. While governments and doctors exhorted us to cut our pleasures out, obesity levels soared.</div>
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We are now in the midst of a nutritional sea change. The old enemies of fat and protein are being welcomed back, while refined carbohydrates are the new devil. But the change is far bigger than this. There's a new sense that food is not just about calories in, calories out. We are starting to realise that 400 calories of salmon and lentils might keep us going for longer than 400 calories of low-fat white sliced bread. What we are seeing – and about time, too – is a return to the old concept of nourishment.</div>
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The wartime generation, living with scarcity, judged foods largely in terms of how they nourished you. Fish was brain food. Meat and milk would build you up. Butter and eggs were husbanded, as golden treasure. Blackcurrant and oranges were valuable vitamin C. Children needed to be fed, not fobbed off with sugar-free jellies.</div>
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We came to reject the idea of nourishment as old-fashioned. Looking at our increasingly chubby youth, we felt that 'nourishing' was the last thing they needed. We were wrong. A gathering body of scientific evidence suggests that the obesity of the West and the malnutrition of the developing world are not as far apart as they seem.</div>
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'Eat less and exercise more – it's not rocket science, is it?' is a view often expressed when the subject of obesity comes up. But this takes no account of the complexity of the problem – nor the fact that it has never been seen on this scale before. A 2009 paper in <i>Nutrition</i> <i>Reviews</i> by Garcia, Long and Rosado found that obesity worldwide was linked with a lack of vitamins and minerals. Obese children are far more likely to be deficient in vitamin D. Deficiency in vitamins C, E, A and zinc has also been associated with higher body fat. You can be overstuffed and undernourished at the same time.</div>
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Meanwhile, Robert Lustig, a children's doctor, has electrified public opinion in America by suggesting that one of the root causes of obesity is, bizarrely, hunger. His argument (watch his YouTube video, 'Sugar: the Bitter Truth') is that the excess sugar in our diets – much of it in 'low-fat' processed foods – messes with leptin, a hormone that tells us when we are full. If Lustig is right (some scientists dispute him), children who gorge on sugary foods are not just being greedy; they are often genuinely hungry, because their diet fails to satisfy.</div>
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The answer is not sugar-free jelly but a completely different approach to healthy eating, one that recognises the complex needs of the human body. The real mystery is how we ever forgot that the point of food is to feed.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">An earlier post summarised the NHS’s lack of success in
ensuring that diabetics received all nine diabetes care processes specified in the
NICE Clinical Guidelines: five risk factors - weight (BMI), blood pressure,
smoking, glucose levels (HbA1c), and serum cholesterol and four tests for early
complications - digital eye photography, laboratory urine microalbumin:
creatinine ratio, serum creatinine and foot nerve and circulation examination.</span></div>
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standards: HbA1c ≤ 7.5%, total cholesterol ≤ 5 mmol/l and a blood pressure
target of < 140/80 for those patients without a recorded eye, kidney or
vascular disease (EKV-) and < 130/80 for those patients with a recorded eye,
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Type 1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">11.6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9.2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Type 2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">20.4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">18.7<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do we regard this as acceptable?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">John</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Team memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09074149731395280490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118081830009091433.post-48397017444161102392012-11-21T10:55:00.002+00:002012-11-21T10:55:21.948+00:00NHS Diabetes: Care Processes<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">The NHS diabetes care processes are specified in NICE
Clinical Guidelines and include five risk factors</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">- weight (BMI), blood pressure, smoking,
glucose levels (HbA1c), and serum cholesterol and four tests for early
complications</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">- digital eye photography,
laboratory urine microalbumin: creatinine ratio, serum creatinine and foot
nerve and circulation examination.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is of some interest to note what percentage of
people registered with diabetes received all nine of the key processes of
diabetes care. From:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.ic.nhs.uk/webfiles/Services/NCASP/Diabetes/201011%20annual%20reports/National_Diabetes_Audit_2010_2011_Report1_Care_Processes_And_Treatment_Targets_V3.pdf"><span style="color: lime;">http://www.ic.nhs.uk/webfiles/Services/NCASP/Diabetes/201011%20annual%20reports/National_Diabetes_Audit_2010_2011_Report1_Care_Processes_And_Treatment_Targets_V3.pdf</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">% of patients receiving all care
processes*<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">England<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wales<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Type 1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">38.5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">38.6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Type 2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">56.4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">62.3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*For patients under 12 years of ages, ‘all care
processes’ is defined as HbA1c only as the other care processes are not recommended
in the NICE guidelines for this age group.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One as to ask why if they have the patient in the
room they cannot complete all nine care processes.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">John</span></div>
Team memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09074149731395280490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118081830009091433.post-920167499253128622012-11-20T22:00:00.002+00:002012-11-20T22:00:59.509+00:00Diabetes: 1-in-3 inpatients suffer NHS error, report to claim !<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px;">Almost one-in-three diabetic inpatients in Wales has experienced at least one NHS medication error, a new report by Diabetes UK Cymru is to reveal.</span><br />
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The charity is concerned because the number of people with diabetes in Wales rose more than a quarter in five years.</div>
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Meanwhile figures obtained by BBC Wales show only one of the seven Welsh health boards has taken on more specialist diabetic nurses in the last four years.</div>
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One board has cut staffing while the other five have kept the same total.</div>
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The Diabetes UK Cymru report to be published on Wednesday reveals diabetes is growing rapidly with an increase of 35,000 people with the condition in Wales over the past five years to 160,000 - a rise of 28%.</div>
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By 2025, the number of people with diabetes is forecast to top 250,000 with 66,000 people currently undiagnosed.</div>
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Despite the concern, the charity says 70% of adults with type 1 diabetes and 43% with type 2 are not getting simple checks, such as blood glucose tests.</div>
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Diabetes UK Cymru director Dai Williams told the BBC Wales Week In Week Out programme: "The cost of diabetes is massive - the bottom line is - it's a ticking time bomb.</div>
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"We've got people wandering around with high blood sugars, not even realising it's going to cause a problem."</div>
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The report, called State of the Nation 2012, will also claim that 29.8% of inpatients with diabetes experienced at least one medication error while on a ward.</div>
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The programme features the family of David Joseph, from Aberaeron, Ceredigion, whose care before his death in 2009 was criticised in April this year by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales, Peter Tyndall.</div>
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<img alt="Madie Joseph" height="112" src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/64245000/jpg/_64245775_madiejoseph464.jpg" style="-webkit-user-select: none; border: 0px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0px; position: relative;" width="200" /><span style="display: block; width: 304px;">Madie Joseph said she 'foolishly' thought her husband would be safe in hospital</span></div>
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Mr Tyndall raised concerns over clinical record keeping by the Hywel Dda health board and made recommendations.</div>
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Mr Joseph's widow, Madie, a former nurse, tells the programme: "We thought, foolishly, that patients with diabetes in hospital would be safe and clearly he was not.</div>
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"I still don't understand how they [nurses] could have been so mistaken - so ignorant - and it mustn't happen again to another patient."</div>
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The family received an apology following the release of the ombudsman's report.</div>
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Week In Week Out has also learned about three more complaints about the treatment of diabetic inpatients at Hywel Dda health board hospitals.</div>
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Councillor Elizabeth Evans, a senior case worker for Mark Williams MP, tells the programme the complaints received over the past 18 months include concerns over fluid intake and patients not eating properly.</div>
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She says: "Every single case would go into hospital for a very different reason. So it was issues about fluid intake, about food, not eating, and obviously any diabetic specialist will tell you that a diabetic needs to eat."</div>
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In a statement Hywel Dda health board said it takes any allegation of a breach of professional standards seriously and an investigation was ongoing.</div>
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Hywel Dda was the only health board in Wales which has increased the number of specialist diabetes nurses, from seven in 2008/9 to the equivalent of 12.34 full-time staff in 2012/13.</div>
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Cwm Taf in the south Wales valleys was the only board to cut staffing, from the equivalent of 13.89 full-time nurses in 2008/9 to 11 in 2012/13.</div>
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Cwm Taf Health Board is pioneering a new scheme to cut diabetes-related medication errors in their hospitals.</div>
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It is a highly visible branding campaign called Think Glucose and involves raising awareness of diabetes with all staff throughout every ward.</div>
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Hypo Boxes on every medication trolley means treatment can be given to patients suffering a hypoglycemic attack quickly; pre-printed medication charts cut the risk of mis-reading doseage; and colour-coded blood sugar monitoring charts mean that dangerously low blood sugar levels go into a red zone - alerting staff of the need to treat the patient quickly.</div>
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The campaign has seen medication errors at one hospital, the Royal Glamorgan, decrease from 50% to 6%.</div>
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At the moment, Cwm Taf is the only health board running Think Glucose, but other health boards are showing interest - and Hywel Dda says it will be rolling out the programme in the New Year.</div>
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Team memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09074149731395280490noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118081830009091433.post-11464915653632265122012-11-20T19:39:00.000+00:002012-11-20T20:48:54.783+00:00Jimmy Moore 6 CarbSane nil !<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A couple of photographs taken very recently of Jimmy Moore and his wife on his tour of Australia. I don’t know about you, Jimmy looks in good shape to me. He is clearly a very big man, and in my opinion he has a very big heart, that’s why people like him. What you see is what you get with Jimmy and he gives us the bad news as well as the good. He lost a brother not so long ago and his wife lost a baby they so much wanted. Jimmy is so open at times he breaks your heart. Jimmy is not perfect and nor are any of us, that’s what makes him real and respected.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A prolific blogger called Evelyn Kocur aka CarbSane runs a blog dedicated to stalking Jimmy. She takes great pleasure in chronically Jimmy’s fight a against excess weight. This to me smacks of jealousy and hypocrisy. She whines Jimmy makes money from his blog and work, while she has a PayPal donate button. Jimmy works ten times harder than her, and his work is his full-time job. What is he supposed to do, go on welfare so he can live ? One other thing, before the slippery Evelyn deactivated her ‘who is CarbSane’ button, together with a photo montage of herself, she seemed to be carrying more blubber than Moby Dick, go and figure that one out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cross bencher Baroness Finlay said: ‘Are the Government considering including in commissioning from health service employers a requirement to address obesity in their staff at all levels, given that the staff are often quite severely obese and act as a very poor role model for those patients whose obesity should be addressed?’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you for coming to this blog. Some will know, we ran a very successful blog elsewhere, but we want to move on. We have thrown away the pea shooters and have now loaded up for bear. We want to see if we can kick up a stink and rattle a few cages within the NHS and DUK. OK I know it’s a tall order, and these two outfits will be a tougher nut to crack, than the likes of corrupt forums, idiotic moderators, and the pond life hanging out in anonymous blogs. But we are going to give it a go and will keep you informed. On thing is for sure, it will be exciting. There is nothing we like more than rocking the boat. If it’s legal we will try almost anything once. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Over the next week or so we will be transferring posts from our old blog. The sort of post linked to information on saturated fats, cholesterol and statins, trial and studies etc we hope will be of use to old friends and new friends we hope to make. I will also have some news of other activities the ‘Eat To Your Meter’ crew are working on that I am sure will be of interest.</span><br />
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SEATTLE — Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna and 37 other attorneys general announced a $90 million settlement with GlaxoSmithKline LLC (GSK) to resolve allegations that the company illegally promoted its diabetes drug, Avandia.</div>
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“We believe that GlaxoSmithKline engaged in unfair and deceptive practices by misrepresenting the health risks of taking Avandia,” said McKenna. “Those who suffer from diabetes already face a higher risk of heart disease. GlaxoSmithKline did not warn such patients that their cholesterol, and their chances of having a heart attack, might go up after taking the drug.”</div>
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A portion of Washington state’s $2.2 million share of the settlement will be used to cover attorneys’ fees and costs associated with the investigation of GSK. The rest will be made available as grants to organizations set up to help those who suffer from diabetes.</div>
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Approved in 1999, Avandia was marketed as superior to some other diabetes drugs. But an advisory committee convened by the FDA in 2007 discovered that GSK failed to submit data to federal regulators showing that Avandia increases patients’ total cholesterol level, an especially dangerous side effect in diabetics. The FDA stopped GSK’s ongoing clinical trials for the drug and restricted its availability. It now only allows its use by patients unable to achieve good results with other drugs.</div>
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As part of the settlement, GlaxoSmithKline agrees to reform how it markets and promotes diabetes drugs. Under a Consent Judgment filed today in King County Superior Court, GSK may not:</div>
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This is the second major settlement involving Avandia. In July, the drugmaker agreed to pay the states and the federal government a total of $2 billion in damages and civil penalties to compensate various healthcare programs, including Medicaid, for harm allegedly suffered as a result of its illegal marketing of the drug. It also paid a $1 billion criminal fine. Washington state’s share of that settlement was $8.7 million.</div>
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GPs do not need to test blood glucose in patients with stable diabetes every six months, as recommended by NICE, as it leads to a high rate of false positives an NHS report has concluded.</div>
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Annual monitoring would give more meaningful information on changes to HbA1c which for most people happen quite slowly, the <a href="http://www.diabetes.nhs.uk/document.php?o=3852" style="color: #0079c1; text-decoration: initial;">NHS Diabetes</a> report said.</div>
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Statistical modelling showed for patients whose HbA1c is currently 56mmol/mol, six-monthly monitoring would pick up 405 positive tests per 1,000 patients – that is HbAlc readings above 58.5 mmol/mol - but 28% of those would be due to measurement variation and not a real increase.</div>
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For the same group of patients annual monitoring would pick up 479 per 1,000 patients but with only 16% would be false positives, the University of Oxford researchers who did the analysis found.</div>
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In other groups with lower starting HbA1c readings most of the positive tests seen with six-monthly tests would be false positives, the report said.</div>
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For someone with a starting HbA1c, a positive test six months later has a 64% chance of being false compared with 31% after a year, the figures showed.</div>
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‘For many people with diabetes, six-monthly monitoring is more likely to yield a false-positive test – attributable to the within-measurement variability of HbA1c – than a true-positive test, attributable to the change over time in glycaemic control,’ the researchers concluded.</div>
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Team memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09074149731395280490noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118081830009091433.post-7888453565650699722012-11-18T14:29:00.000+00:002012-11-21T13:28:17.265+00:00Fasting cholesterol tests 'not needed'<br />
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GPs do not need to ask patients to fast before taking a cholesterol test as it makes very little difference to the results, a large-scale study has suggested.</div>
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Canadian researchers found that mean levels of total cholesterol and HDL-cholesterol varied by less than 2% among individuals with fasting times of between one and 16 hours.</div>
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The researchers concluded fasting for routine lipid levels was ‘largely unnecessary’, contradicting best practice as recommended by NICE and the Joint British Societies.</div>
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Their study looked at the laboratory results of blood samples from 111,048 women and 98,132 men in the community and cross-referenced this with the duration they had fasted before the sample was taken.</div>
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The data was from a six-month period in 2011 and researchers controlled for the differing age of patients. They then estimated the mean levels of cholesterol subclasses recorded at different fasting times.</div>
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The mean levels of total cholesterol and HDL-cholesterol differed little among individuals with various fasting times, with variations of less than 2%.</div>
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Team memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09074149731395280490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118081830009091433.post-35003811047563874562012-02-03T16:06:00.002+00:002012-02-03T16:11:00.073+00:00High fructose corn syrup linked to cardiovascular disease in children.An investigation by scientists from the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) at Georgia Health Sciences University (GHSU) followed 559 children ages 14-18. The study subjects' dietary habits were measured; their blood analyzed and blood pressure, body fat and other health measurements taken. The researchers found a correlation between high-fructose diets and markers for heart and vascular disease such as higher blood pressure, fasting glucose, insulin resistance, levels of C - reactive protein, related to inflammation.<br /><br />Teens whose diets included more HFCS also had lower levels of HDL cholesterol (the "good" cholesterol) and of the fat burning hormone adiponectin. In addition, study subjects who often consumed the industrial sweetener were more likely to have midsection fat, referred to as visceral adiposity, another known risk factor for cardiovascular disease and diabetes. More generalized fat distribution does not appear to have a link to HFCS or the other health risk factors.<br /><br /><a style="COLOR: #003399" href="http://www.naturalnews.com/034767_HFCS_cardiovascular_disease_children.html#ixzz1l1yTjUxz"><span style="color:#33cc00;">http://www.naturalnews.com/034767_HFCS_cardiovascular_disease_children.html#ixzz1l1yTjUxz</span></a>Team memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09074149731395280490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118081830009091433.post-30838930565055058722012-02-03T15:57:00.003+00:002012-02-03T16:05:26.447+00:00Low fat high carb diet good for your health ?<a name="1466297870956492816"></a><br /><p><br />Low fat began in 1977 when Senator George McGovern’s bi-partisan Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs – without scientific consensus - recommended a low fat diet for all Americans over age 2, including up to 11 servings of grain everyday. As Americans adopted the new dietary guidelines – restricting fat and eating more carbohydrates – we gained girth. </p><br /><p>We set out on this slippery slope of ever expanding chronic disease – the high carb road to ruin - when we started replacing our traditional foods like butter and eggs with highly processed vegetable fats, refined grains, and cereals. Children are eating Pop Tarts and sugary cereals when they should be eating nutritious eggs scrambled or fried in butter.</p><br /><p>“Don’t eat eggs and butter” is a catastrophic mistake. If you cut down on fat you’ve got to eat something and that something has been sugar, starch, and thousands of easily-digested “low fat” grain products, usually made with industrially rancid vegetable grease and high fructose corn syrup, now constituting up to 10 percent of American calories.</p><br /><p>The proposed 2010 Dietary Guidelines – like the original low fat 1980 Dietary Guidelines - will only fuel chronic disease. Because 80 percent of diabetics die of heart disease, we are also facing an unprecedented surge in diseases of the heart - the number one Medicare expenditure; the number one cause of death.</p><br /><p>Once we identify excess carbohydrates and the highly processed vegetable fats as the common denominators of chronic disease, we will then be able to cut carbs, fix our fats, and switch back to America’s traditional high fat diet. I want a real Happy Meal please - three eggs scrambled in butter!</p><br /><p></p><br /><p><a href="http://www.dietheartpublishing.com/"><span style="color:#009900;">http://www.dietheartpublishing.com/</span></a><span style="color:#009900;"> </span></p>Team memberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09074149731395280490noreply@blogger.com0