Intensive Control Does Work

David Mendosa Living With It Medical Journalist Living with Diabetes and Author of Fitness and Photography for Fun, www.mendosa.com/fitnessblog After earning a B.A. with honors from the University of California,... Send Message Subscribe: David Mendosa

Wednesday, May 27, 2009
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All over the world people with diabetes are slacking off how well they control their diabetes. Their A1C levels are climbing to 7.0 percent or more, apparently blessed by scientific research. Researchers designed the Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes trial, universally known as ACCOR...

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drscll
Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 11:48 AM

Looks to me like this is a classic case of 'the treatment was a success but unfortunately the patient died'.

Must See
puzzer
Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 06:56 PM

www.rawfor30days.com

Or go to youtube.com and search raw for 30 days to see some dynamic video.

6 severe diabetics go on a raw food diet for a month with some eye opening results.

re: Must See
David Mendosa
Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 07:34 PM

I also reviewed "Raw For Life" here at http://www.healthcentral.com/diabetes/c/17/32119/reversing-diabetes

David

Control does work
Parvez ali
Tuesday, June 02, 2009 at 12:52 AM

The ACCORD study was disturbing. Mr Mendosa's "hard question",knocked the study out. control after all does work.

Parvez ali

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Ted Hutchinson
Thursday, June 04, 2009 at 04:16 PM

These two blogs from Sandy Szwarc of JunkfoodScience are interesting.

Seeing the evidence: Tighter control of blood sugars in type 2 diabetics

Beware the false RCT

Intensive Control
Anonymous
Monday, June 08, 2009 at 02:24 PM

Over the last 25 years the heavy hitters in the field (NIH, VA, UKs NHS) have

conducted very large scale studies which established intensive control as the

treatment which produced the best outcome for the most patients.

It's the regimen I observe.

What has not followed is the adoption of intensive control as the treatment of
choice in said institutions - The therapy, with many patients, requires close
supervision, and the same institutions have sharply reduced nursing resources
in the same interval.

Less aggressive treatment is a recipe for diabetic "complications", and anyone

who cares to know knows it - Institutional priorities are elsewhere, however.

Jack

re: Intensive Control
Helen Mueller
Sunday, August 16, 2009 at 02:28 PM

Yes, intensive control works, but is a lot of work. Not everyone understands the principles behind devising a personal program that works, nor can they, lacking a scientific background. Therein enters the professional, usually a CDE. Only where are they? Spending more money early on allows for fewer complications and less expense later on. But this is not the way insurance companies operate; they figure later on you become the gov't's problem, not theirs; therefore not supporting early intervention saves them money. I have been successfully controlling my diabetes, with the help of online support communities; but there are times when I would welcome personal intervention to reprime my desire to be as well as possible.