In my practice caring for pregnant women, it is proper protocol to do a
diabetes screen at 28 weeks. The woman is given a 50g load of glucose to
drink, then her blood sugar is monitored for elevation 1 hour later. We
subject a person to a very unnatural situation, then see if she has a
reaction. Quite absurd, really. If they have gestational diabetes, what
do we do? We put her on the type of diet that she should have been on
anyway!

Kathy

Matt Baker wrote:

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>>Just look at what they feed patients
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>Saw a new CARDIOLOGIST for a cardiolite test last week to check for
>blockages/blood flow.  Was handed a package of peanut butter crackers and
>told I HAD to eat them before they could take the pictures.  Saved the
>package.  Look at the ingredients:
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>Enriched FLOUR
>PEANUT butter
>DEXTROSE
>HYDROGENATED  COTTONSEED OIL
>PARTIALLY-HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN and/or COTTONSEED OIL
>SUGAR
>WHEY
>CORNSTARCH
>SALT
>HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP
>MALTED BARLEY FLOUR
>SOY Lecithin
>YELLOW 6
>CHEDDAR CHEESE
>BUTTERMILK
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>My opinion--nutritionwise, doctors in general are a huge part of the problem
>and very little part of the solution.  I told them they really needed to
>re-think the crackers bit and not foist transfats and other crap on
>patients.
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>Theola
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