The NHS’s multifarious patient information leaflets are inaccurate, inconsistent, and confusing, finds Margaret McCartney, and effort is duplicated because each trust commissions its own, often from the private sectorThe so called patient revolution is nothing without quality information. And so the NHS is awash with patient information, especially leaflets, in hospital wards, outpatient clinics, and general practitioners’ surgeries. Some trusts commission leaflets from external, profit making companies; others write their...
Patient information leaflets: “a stupid system”
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Grazer spills the beans !
From the ETYM forum."Sorry you're going Desi, but for the life of me can't see why. Some seem to see Machiavellian dealings where there are none. How's this for open - Eddie is an Arse who insisted on insulting me and my colleagues who spend a lot of our time and money running this purely to help others. We didn't like that, so told him to get lost anmd banned him. Our bat, our ball, don't insult the umpire. Changes to who can read what means guests get a taste, but have to become members to see more. Really dumbfounded...
Recent Events at ETYM
A little over the top for a discussion of cupcakes. Drama queensJ...
TONIGHT! Ask Dr. Bernstein Webcast and Teleconference Call.
Ask Dr. Bernstein Webcast and Teleconference !!! Wednesday, July 31, 2013 7:00 PM CST SEND ME YOUR QUESTIONS NOW!! Special Topic: To be announced TONIGHT! Wednesday, July 31, at 7:00 pm Central Listening method: Phone + Web Simulcast Phone number: (206) 402-0100 PIN Code: 900326# To attend via the internet, visit: http://InstantTeleseminar.com/?eventID=43215258 Please Ask Dr. Bernstein Your Questions NOW! By emailing us at publisher@diabetesincontrol.com or by going to www.askdrbernstein.netJoin the Ask Dr. Bernstein Webcast...
Pfizer to pay $491m in fine for off-label marketing !
"Pfizer has agreed to pay a fine of $490.9m to settle an investigation related to off-label marketing of immunosuppressive drug Rapamune, according to the US Department of Justice. The drug was produced by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a company acquired by Pfizer in 2009. According to Pfizer, Rapamune (sirolimus) is indicated for the prevention of organ rejection in kidney transplant patients aged 13 years or older. The company, in a statement, said, “Pfizer was not a subject or target of this matter, and cooperated fully with...
Undercover of the night !
A track dedicated to the disappeared ones and the skulduggery that goes on at UK diabetes forums.Post deleted ? Click on screen shot to enlar...
Quote of the day !
From the ETYM forum."The whole life section and all it's threads have disappeared!"Another day another dollar at the fantasy forum.Posted by fly on the wall....
Metformin Pill Linked To Longer Life !
You guessed it folks, it’s another study based on the long suffering mouse. If I had a tenner for every headline I read regarding a mouse trial or study, I could afford to send welfare parcels to Bill Gates. The article concludes with "What we don't know however is whether similar effects on lifespan might be produced in humans."This is something that we cannot simply take for granted and the study's authors do well to sound a note of caution"That’s the usual conclusion. What I often ask myself is, how easy is it to get funding...
More Lunacy From New Zealand.Fat tax would add $1 to butter !
A fat tax is being suggested as a possible way to improve the health of New Zealanders by encouraging people to replace some saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats. Some butter could be replaced with grapeseed or safflower oil, meat with omega-3 rich fish, and potato chips with nuts or seeds, while the tax could add $1 to a pack of butter. Rachel Foster and Associate Professor Nick Wilson from Otago University in Wellington looked at five meta-analyses to estimate how the risk of cardiovascular disease could be reduced...
Pocket-Sized Sensor Gives Instant Fat Burning Updates.
Fitness fanatics may soon be able to gauge if their hard work is paying off without the need for weighing scales thanks to a new device that can instantly tell if your body is burning fat.The device has been presented today, 25 July, in IOP Publishing's Journal of Breath Research. Acetone is primarily produced in the blood when fat is broken down; however, it is also expelled through tiny sacs, called alveoli, in the lungs during exhalation and is therefore present in exhaled breath. This new device, which is capable of...
ETYM Board issue statement.
It has come to the attention of the forum moderators that a so-called blog has been set up exclusively to propogate propaganda of a sort which treats the mod team with contemptuous mirth and/or also derides us. Despite not owning a thesaurus, we've wasted little time in branding the individual behind this blog as at best unhinged, and at worst really rather very unhinged. Be warned, he'll use every trick in the book - parody, cartoons, wordplay, irony, talking Labradors and even name-dropping Sigmund Freud (who's DEAD!)...
ETYM crisis meeting in progress.
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You don’t need a fat wallet to stay slim !
In a perfect world some of us lowcarbers would live on fillet steak, lobsters and scallops. But in the real world most of us have to live on a budget. The retired, and most families with children, have incomes that are shrinking. Salaries are fixed for many these days, and when you take into account inflation, which I believe regarding food, is way above the number we are told by Government, times are tight. So, do you need a fat wallet,...
Bantastic
Dear forumers on the flora,By the time that you read this, it will be too late - I will be gone.Sorry, that came out all wrong. What I meant to say is: by the time I read this, you'll be gone. Banned, banned, banned. Banned in the wink of my eye - which, incidentally, is an eye that I've had on you all for quite a while now.I fear that few people realise the time and commitment that's involved in my tediously refuting and rebuking every single contrary opinion fired at me from across the interweb. It isn't just a case of...
ETYM a forum or a very exclusive club ?
When the hardest fighters for the lowcarb cause, in recent times were banned from diabetes.co.uk, the guys set up a forum of their own. Great I thought, we need a set of pipe wielding, blow torch holding set of lowcarbers, setting up a much needed lowcarb forum in the UK. Not only that they invited me, a lowcarb member of the Hezbollah to join them. Let’s get at it I thought, lets kick some lowcarb anti butt ! how wrong could I be. From...
A 280,000% Mark Up For... Water !
Imagine there was a time when bottled water didn't exist in our catalog of popular commodities. Perhaps the trend started in 1976 when the chic French sparkling water, Perrier made its introduction. There it was seductively bottled in its emerald green glass amongst the era of disco and the spectacle of excesses... who could resist right?! What could be more decadent than to package, sell and consume what most consider (in the western world) a common human right easily supplied through a home faucet! It’s absurd that...
Doctors pioneer use of 'bug' device to protect critically ill patients
Doctors in Southampton are the first in the world to fit critically ill patients with a revolutionary bug-like device to detect dangerous blood sugar levels.The hi-tech gadget, which consists of two probes with four sensors that are hooked into the skin and covered with a dressing, enables doctors to offer patients round-the-clock protection against life-threatening infections or seizures for the duration of their time in intensive care.Many seriously ill patients, including those with diabetes, suffer high levels of glucose...
One day I’m gonna lose !
In over five years of taking on lowcarb antis, idiotic forum moderators, and owners of forums and blogs, I have never lost the argument. Sure, I have been banned, thread locked and thousands of posts deleted, but I have never lost. I know what you may be thinking, what a cocky son of a bitch, how does his head get through the door. Let me explain. So many dullards I have taken on, never understood the big issue. It was never about me, it was about the lowcarb lifestyle.What kind of idiot could ever believe a diet based on sugar...
Lowcarbers Have We Got It All Wrong ?
We have worked hard to tell our stories, we have worked hard for the lowcarb cause, some of us for years. Imagine this scenario, we all wake up tomorrow, and find out the Governments and food advising outfits all over the world, have come clean. They admit they have been mistaken, and hoodwinked by multinational food outfits and big pharma. That a huge change in policy has taken place. The way forward is less carbs, and stop eating highly...
Man 'kicked out' of New Zealand for being too fat!
"A South African man is facing deportation from New Zealand - for being overweight. Albert Buitenhuis weighs 20 stone and six pounds, 66lbs lighter than when he moved to NZ six years ago. But he has now been told his weight may place demands on New Zealand's health services.At 5ft 10in tall, Albert has a body mass index of 40, making him clinically obese. His wife Marthie says his weight has never stopped him from working 40 hours a week as a chef, and has not been a problem with gaining their annual visas every year since...
The Sid Bonkers Paradox !
Say what you like about Sid Bonkers, long time member of the forum of flog, diabetes.co.uk, he never fails to amuse. The experienced and well controlled diabetic members at the forum, know Sid as an absolute genius at getting threads locked and posts deleted on the forum. The big question is, is Sid a harmless old buffoon, or a menace to the diabetic community ? Sid is a very mercurial man, one day he is posting some useful information,...
What do the worlds toughest athletes eat ?
The Tour de France is arguably the worlds toughest endurance sport event. Day after day riding for hours, with gruelling mountain climbs, sometimes in sweltering heat. As you would expect, food is a very special part of these guys performance. Team Saxo-Tinkoff employ a head chef, Hannah Grant, to ensure the team operates at their best. She has some views you may find interesting.Eddie "First of all, I set the menu. I mean, they can request stuff, the riders, if they want. I’ll note it and I’ll do it if it’s possible. But,...
'In vitro' beef - it's the meat of the future !
A week tomorrow, at an exclusive west London venue, the most expensive beefburger in history will be nervously cooked and served before an invited audience. Costing somewhere in the region of £250,000, the 5oz burger will be composed of synthetic meat, grown in a laboratory from the stem cells of a slaughtered cow.The scientist behind the "in vitro" burger believes synthetic meat could help to save the world from the growing consumer demand for beef, lamb, pork and chicken. The future appetite for beef alone, for instance,...
Theresa May Home Secretary is not a beer swilling, pie eating fat bastard !
The Daily Mail newspaper ran a long article today on our Home Secretary Theresa May and her recent membership of the club no-one wants to join, the diabetes club. At first they thought she had type two, but it turns out it’s type one. I am sorry another person has joined the club, but thank God it was type one eh. How would her spin team have dealt with the fact, she had joined those beer swilling, pie eating fat bastards, known as type two diabetics? I don’t trust most politicos more than I could throw them, and the cynic in...
Diabetes New Zealand another Black Ops shill for big pharma ?
One of our friends who lives in New Zealand sent in a link to an outfit called Diabetes New Zealand. DNZ loves sugar and carbohydrates, poor old sugar gets some stick, they imply, ah poor old Mr. Sugar never mind old chap. Let’s all feel sorry for poor old Mr. Sugar. The fact is sugar contains nothing other than calories, no vitamins no minerals, none, zilch. “But sugar is just a type of carbohydrate” they tell us. Now that is good,...
The Mavericks "Come Unto Me"
Follow on from Eddies video with another tune from The Mavericks:Graham...
Saturday is music night again !
Check this track out and try to stop dancing or smiling. You know it makes sense, why fight it. Ed...
Eddie does his best but!
Eddie does his best, but as some of the low carb anti’s have said, his grammar and spelling leaves much to be desired at times. Well the team had a whip round and sent me on a crash course to study English. It went well. An example.Eddie recently referred to a forum mod as an arch buffoon, did this really do the mod and the situation justice ? My description of the forum mod.A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times...
“Long is the way. And hard. That out of hell leads up to light.” Part 1
I have used that quote from Milton before on this blog. To some it may seem a bit heavy, or over the top, but trust me, diabetes can be a living hell for some. Two weeks after my diagnosis of type two diabetes, I buried my Father. He was a type two diabetic, and his last fifteen years were blighted with diabetic complications. Two heart attacks, a diabetic foot, and a once very strong man reduced to a physical wreck. This did not need to be. He came from a generation who believed Doctors and medical people were above reproach...
Quote of the day from Paul1976 at the flog !
"Big Pharma doesn't want you dead but doesn't want you well either but in the middle.There's no money in dead people but equally there's no money in healthy people who dare think outside the box and go against the status quo with their dietary regim...
Coronation Street Star Comes Under Attack For Recommending Lowcarb !
All hell broke lose recently, no, this is not another rant against the forum of fantasy, when Coronation Street Star Catherine Tyldesle, who plays Eva Price in the longest running soap opera in the world, Coronation Street.(Catherine also runs a health club with her partner) tweeted “I’m shocked by some of the nutritional advice available on NHS. ‘Wholemeal bread, cereal and pasta are good for you?!?!’ #yeahright.” Evidently all hell broke lose. The Sun, the UK’s best selling newspaper, a cross between a comic, men’s magazine...
Type 2 Diabetes Etiology and reversibility
Roy Taylor, MD, FRCPReversal of type 2 diabetes to normal metabolic control by either bariatric surgery or hypocaloric diet allows for the time sequence of underlying pathophysiologic mechanisms to be observed. In reverse order, the same mechanisms are likely to determine the events leading to the onset of hyperglycemia and permit insight into the etiology of type 2 diabetes. Within 7 days of instituting a substantial negative calorie balance by either dietary intervention or bariatric surgery, fasting plasma glucose levels...
Lowcarb bloggers install google translate on your blog !
First, thank you so much to the people that read our blog. A very special thank you to the people that comment. The screen shot shows the page views by country, this total is just under half a million. The Google stats only show the top ten countries, when looking at the all time blog page views, this indicates almost 200,000 page views have come via other countries. The British are said to be the worlds worst at learning a new language....
Lowcarb not only for type two diabetics !
"My son has type 1 diabetes , aged 13. We all eat a low carb diet. No processed food. Only my cooking. I can make almost anything low carb: cookies, cakes, waffles, brownies, pasta from zucchini, rice from cauliflower, cheesecake, chocolate mousse. It is so delicious, and best of all tasty because it contains healthy fats.HIS BG’S are always normal if he eats my cooking, His HbA1c is 5.5, and apparently the ONLY patient his paediatrician has with these numbers. He also exercises regularly and spends time in the sun to...
Quote of the day !
"Many dieticians, in particular, do this ‘appeal to authority’ thing, like it absolves them from the need to be accurate, do the necessary research or think for themselves."Doctor John BriffaCheck out the link where John is shredding the latest black ops outfit The Fat Information Service aka the forum of Flora flog.Link to the thread here.Check out a dietitian who can see the need for accurate information, who does the necessary research, and can think for herself. Franziska Spritzler, RD, CDEThe low carb dietitian...
Dr. Google may have a place in health care after all, experts say
As websites improve, doctors say it's OK to search your symptomsOne hospital has made a symptom checker available on its websiteJuly 24, 2013While online websites can sometimes steer patients astray—"people tend to freak out when they read all the scary conditions they might [have]" according to one expert—more doctors and hospitals are now encouraging patients to better understand their symptoms by looking them up online, Laura Landro writes for the Wall Street Journal.Related: One in three adults go online to diagnose...
Say goodbye to the NHS folks !
Exclusive: Just over half of GPs are in favour of the NHS charging a small fee for routine appointments, with many believing it is the only way of managing their workload and curbing rising patient demand, a Pulse survey has found. Of the 440 GPs polled in the survey, 51% said they would support charging a small fee for GP appointments, compared with 36% who would not.That represents a significant increase on the 34% of GPs who said they would support charging for appointments in a similar poll last September, and suggests...
From the right honourable Mr. Sid Bonkers at the forum of flog today.
“I've never taken any supplement apart from cod liver oil for arthritis not that I have noticed any improvement I tend to think that they're a waste of time and money unless you have been told following a blood test that you are deficient in a particular vitamin or mineral. I'd rather spend my money on a balanced diet to ensure that I wont not be deficient in any vitamins in the first place.”Good grief ! I read this today and thought Jeez I agree with Sid one hundred percent. Believe it or not Sid was awarded the Wally Corker...
Good news not wanted at ETYM forum ?
Yesterday I wrote about the best and unfortunately rare posting of great success on the forum to-date. I stated the board owners appeared to be in no rush to congratulate the member. Despite the post standing for over two days at time of writing this post, only one board member has bothered to post on the thread. This is despite all the board members being logged on and posting over the last 48 hours. Just a thought.I now consider myself banned permanently from the forum. I see my path clear to continue my points of view and...
Big pharma greed knows no bounds ! Thalidomide victims being born again !
If you have never taken a pharma drug in your life, and know absolutely nothing about drugs, if you are middle aged or older you will have heard of Thalidomide. Not the largest big pharma disaster by any means, but certainly the most well known. I was staggered to read today the drug has been used again, and babies are being born without limbs because of this horror drug. I can only hope the poor souls, affected by this terrible drug, receive...
Diabetes 'linked to disability risk'
Adults with diabetes have a higher risk of physical disability, research shows. Older people with diabetes are 50% to 80% more likely to develop a physical disability than those without, according to a review of 26 studies. No distinction was made between type-1 and type-2 diabetes, but most of the data involved people over the age of 65, who are more likely to have type-2. Ensuring all people with diabetes have access to the right care is hugely important, said a diabetes charity. The charity...
The small things in life!
Life can be very mad and maddening at times, sometimes you are up, sometimes you are down. So isn’t it great when you can step back and think, thank goodness for small things that can and do help to uplift us. They make us smile and it‘s like a small piece of magic has momentarily entered our world and the madness, trouble and grief disappears. Like it’s magic when my youngest grandchild says “hiya” to me with such an adorable smile. Or perhaps it’s when my grandson rushes up to me with a big welcome hug and kiss. You instantly...
Great News From ETYM !
Just when I thought the forum of fantasy was about as much use as a rubber beak on a woodpecker, we hear of a remarkable diabetes story. Many members and visitors to the forum of fantasy, know how hard I fought to get the high fat low carb message a mainstay of the forum. Countless times we were told by the board owners we are not a low carb forum. Countless times I was attacked by the mob, very often lead by the forum owners (ironically mostly low carb high fat) well, those with good diabetes control, but at last we have a...
Grazers grief !
Grazers grief, sorry folks but I could not resist it. Jeez they can’t even ban someone properly these days. I posted this 24 hours after gruesome Grazers bravado, is he a plank or what ? This post made a new post deletion record at ETYM ! deleted in twenty seconds, beat that !Click on screen shot to enlarg...
ETYM forum board members as predictable as night follows day !
As the ETYM board members sink into a quagmire of their own making, xyzzy makes the big threat. Just as I predicted in my post ‘The Drama Queen Returns’ when I said “What will it be next ? Threatening to close the forum down ?” From xyzzy at the forum of fantasy tonight.“This site took six hours to get up and running and it can disappear just as quickly.”Jeez, I used have a lot of respect for xyzzy, but after the bullshit last night re. the “pornographic” email and threats made tonight, has the sun and heat wave affected his...
Cannabis-Derived Drug for Type 2 Enters Phase 2
A British drug company is looking to medical marijuana- or at least a derivative of it-to help treat a variety of different diseases, including type 2 diabetes.The company, GW Pharma, is in the process of creating a collection of cannabinoid-based drugs, including one that takes aim at diabetes. The first of this type of drug the company has produced is Sativex, a nasal spray used to treat spasms associated with multiple sclerosis. Sativex has been okayed in eight countries, and is currently awaiting FDA approval in...
Has xyzzy lost his grip on reality ?
Xyzzy said at diabetes support forum.org formerly ETYM forum."Eddie resigned after he sent a pornographic email to Jo (Defren). I still have the email and the internet headers that are invisibly attached to all emails when sent proving it came from his email address. I still also remember Sue (my wife) and I taking Jo's telephone call and having to console her over its content when it appeared in her inbox. I also have Eddie's bizarre attempt at an apology in a later email".Xyzzy is that the best you can do mate,...
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