Talk:Diet in diabetes/Archive 1

Article name
The most commonly known (at least in UK) term is "Diabetic diet" (981,000 Google hits) vs "Diet for people with diabetes" 9,130 hits. I wondered about there being more than one recomendation, ie "Diabetic diets" and this has just 331,000 hits. I have therefore moved the article to Diabetic diet. David Ruben Talk 00:06, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

"Low in fat"?
"The diet recommended for people who suffer from diabetes mellitus is one that is high in dietary fibre, especially soluble fibre, but low in fat (especially saturated fat)." I have heard many recommend an increased intake of fat, even going so far as a ketogenic diet, as it helps keeping blood glucose levels down. - Wintran (talk) 11:59, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Some diabetologists who might be concerned that excessive fat consumption by diabetics might increase risk of CHD, but I would not wish to say too much on this, because I am not a medical doctor. ACEOREVIVED 19:14, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Concern over "Criticisms" section
I am rather concerned about the section headed "Criticisms". This is hardly written in clear English, appears to contain evidence of original research, and is hardly a Neutral Point of View. What is more, if one looks at the history of the article glycemic index, at one time, more or less verbatim the same was there at one time. I may not be qualified medical doctor, but I can recognise unclear English, and can I also say that although I have not objections to use of first person in discussion pages, I do not think that use of the word "I" should go into the articles themselves. ACEOREVIVED 19:58, 4 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you, yes identical to section recently added to glycemic index that I removed as being without citation to verify and therefore coming under WP:No original research (see this removal). Likewise I agree, very unclear English and the article-space edit apparently signed by the editor (only talk pages are signed). David Ruben Talk 23:49, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Fructose
Unfortunately an anon editor wrong in that it does not matter re citing - it is policy on talk pages. Also no editorial comment should be made in article space. I copy the section here so that it can be discussed and worked upon. David Ruben Talk 15:54, 7 November 2007 (UTC) .== Low GI for Non-Glucose Sugars ? == Editors please note- I consider that the health of diabetics, including myself, to be far more important than bad english? or lack of references.

Hughes reported that fructose and glucose gave similar blood sugar responses when consumed by diabetic 1 sufferers. Summary of Hughe's observations-

"Patients were given glucose alone, fructose alone, glucose + fructose, lactose, and glucose + fat + protein. Fructose given alone increased the blood glucose almost as much as a similar amount of glucose (78% of the glucose-alone area, p < 0.05). H"glucose. AmJClinNutr 1989;49:658-66.


 * The reference for a start is: David Ruben Talk 15:55, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Spelling of fibre
There seem to be a lot of edits about the word "fibre" in this. Can I please put things correct? I believe that in U.K.English the word is spelt "fibre", in U.S. English, the word is spelt "fiber". Hence, because Wikipedia gets edited by users on both sides of the Atlantic, it is inevitable that people may disagree about how to spell this word. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 20:46, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Obesity
the Effects on obesity section has no ref's so (although i personally agree with its sentiment) i have removed it. also would someone explain to me why diabetics should avoid fat and excessive protein, other than for the same reason as non-diabetics. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.197.5.33 (talk) 04:23, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Wikilink to Frederick Allen
There are couple of names that one will access after clicking on Frederick Allen in this article, but neither of them appear to be the U.S. physician who, in 1919, worked in New Jersey and did much research into diabetes. Perhaps this could be some one's project - starting a new Wikipedia article. If you do a Google search and type in his name, it will get you to some informative websites. 92.3.51.41 (talk) 00:01, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

I shall now explain that I should have done the four tildes to sign my username last night - if I did not, it comes of editing this at around midnight, especially when I tend to be a lark rather than an owl! I can tell people that if one goes to the following website:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&uid=14169215&cmd=showdetailview&indexed

one should be able to find that Frederick Madison Allen, as he was, lived from 1879-1964; so there are his dates for a potted biography on Allen in Wikipedia, for a start. If any one has some more information (it appears that around about 1919, he was known as one of the world's leading authorities on diabetes), that might help us get the wikilink sorted out. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 20:32, 24 January 2008 (UTC) (and yes, I am the same person who signed the previous comment!) ACEOREVIVED (talk) 20:32, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

I have now started a brief article on Frederick Allen (the former Wikilink was confusing to Wikipedia users, as it did not link to the right man). This article I began is currently at stub status, so I shall appreciate some one who knows about him extending it. Thank you in advance if you could do this. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 09:35, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Minor edit: Structural improvement
I have left the content of this article as it is,but just moved the section on "Further Reading" so it would be just before "References", as this improved structure. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:02, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

References for fibre
It would be good to see some more references for the section on dietary fibre - I may have some, which I could add in the near future. As the creator of this article, and not being a dietitian, I was quite flattered to see it get B! ACEOREVIVED (talk) 20:41, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

I think I may have been thinking of Anderson as the man who advocated high fibre in the diabetic diet. This is mentioned in the book by Murray and Pizzorno which I have now added to the reference list - I seem to recall, back around the year 2000, first coming across the suggestion that diabetics need high-fibre diets from my reading of this book. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:20, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Second sentence
I wonder whether the second sentence should give examples of quick-acting carboydrate, citing, for example, lucozade. Although it cannot be over-emphasised that Wikipedia is not a "how-to" manual (and should never be used as a substitute for professional medical advice), at least this would help to clarify the second sentence. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:52, 27 September 2008 (UTC)