7 Ways to Maintain a Healthy Type 2 Diabetes Diet

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When carbohydrate-restricted diets show better results than the ADA diet, the ADA says that people can't stay on them and blame the diet. When people can't stay on the ADA diet, they blame the patient. People don't follow diet recommendations because they care about how they feel, because their doctor may not be a political-climbing "expert," and because they have a glucometer, not a fat-meter. The most immediate danger for a person with diabetes is microvascular complications (blindness, kidney problems, foot problems) due to high blood glucose. This, in turn, (as the ADA admits) is most dependent on dietary carbohydrates. Until the physicians and patients get together and remove the "experts" from these panels, we will continue to see an epidemic of diabetes which the ADA, if it did not cause it, certainly did nothing to contain it. You would have to go back to the eighteenth century to find a medical scandal of these proportions.
Richard Feinman
Professor of Biochemistry
SUNY Downstate Medical Center.

Richard Feinman of NY 1:03PM September 12, 2009

The most important piece of information in this article is; "don't assume you know everything." and the author shoud heed this advice. Science has shown us it is not the fat, but the carbohydrates that are so damaging. A high fat diet is beneficial to health provided the carbs are low. Most of the studies that say otherwise have looked at fat in the prescence of a high carb diet and the media loves to pick up on these stories. If you have diabetes and are serious about getting healthy the 2 most important resources are Dr. Bernstien's book, The Diabetes Solution and, the Metabolism Society website.

Ivan C of NY 7:51AM September 12, 2009