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Ken - Interview 29  

Ken - Interview 29

Age at Interview: 60
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 56
Background: Ken is a retired academic, married with two grown up children. Ethnic background/Nationality: White British.
Brief outline:Ken was diagnosed when he was 56. At the time of his interview he was taking metformin.

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Ken thinks that the information about eating more carbohydrates is extremely confusing.

 



I've certainly found diet the most confusing side of diabetes. You lose weight, in general, before you're diagnosed, due to metabolism that involves you metabolising your own protein really, rather like the Atkins Diet. But then I've been totally confused by all the dietary advice. It seems to me that eating rice, for example, which has been advised, just causes a sugar release, a high spike at a later time. So if you eat glucose you get a high spike of glucose immediately. If you eat rice or potatoes, or pasta of any sort you just delay that rise, so that's why I've chosen to go for things with a lower glycosalation index, because the rise tends not to spike so much. It fits with my theory that what you don't want is a spike, but, it, it took me probably two or three months of reading and thinking to come out with that, because everyone says something different. That's why I stress my own way that seems to be best for me, because obviously there's a hundred other conflicting ideas out there. But that's been the most confusing, I think.
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