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Diabetes is such a frustrating disease. If anything, it’s a disease that leaves room for a lot of charlatans and fools. Some give you crazy herbal remedies, some tell you that you haven’t prayed enough to God to heal your pancreas… Some say that if you just followed their diet, that you would be cured…


But what about the people who are supposed to be on our side? The people who thousands, if not millions of people, turn to for information?

"Research on low-carb diets has revealed no benefits for controlling weight, blood lipids, or blood glucose, especially when followed for longer than six months ... Weight loss studies also discount low-carb diets (under 135 grams of carbohydrate daily). The food plan shown to truly work for weight control is eating less fat and getting about half of your total daily calories from carbohydrate." -- DiabeticLiving Online Magazine, Carbohydrates: What you Need to Know Now,
http://www.diabeticlivingonline.com/food-to-eat/count-carbs/what-to-know-about-carbohydrates/?page=8

"Americans and Europeans eat too much fat and too little carbohydrate and fiber, and they get too little exercise." -- American Diabetes Assosication, Genetics of Diabetes: Type 2 Diabetes, http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/genetics-of-diabetes.html

We should be furious, and we should all be standing against this kind of ■■■■■■■■ from groups that are supposed to be representing us... And basically cattle-hearding ignorant Diabetics into more complications, and need for medications... from abusing carbohydrates. Why would you tell people that there is NO research proving that a low carbohydrate diet is beneficial for people???? I mean, are you deft? Did you suddenly forget to actually DO research? Let's take a ■■■■, while we're at it, on all the research that was actually released this week on how low carb is just as good for losing weight, and even better for controlling lipids! Unbelievable.

Then there are the idiots at the American Diabetes Association... telling people that the reason we are in this mess is because Americans eat too much fat, and too little carbohydrate! OMG! I guess they must pray to their God of Januvia, or their God of Actos, to lower their blood sugar after they've had a huge loaf of wheat bread for lunch, because they were good little boys and girls and didn't have any fat!

THIS is why thousands of people are dying every year from Diabetes... Because these are the kinds of clowns that represent us... It's enough to make me want to start a bonfire of Diabetic Living Magazines, and use ADA pamphlets as filler. When are we, in the Diabetic community, going to stand up against this kind of miseducation and general crap??? I mean, if you don't want to follow a lower carb diet (below 135 g of carb), than that is YOUR choice... But please don't go lying to people about it... Saying that it doesn't give anyone any benefits, or that there isn't research... Or that the general American public doesn't eat enough carbs! lol ... or that your A1C is good, while on a high carb diet... NEWSFLASH: AN A1C HIGHER THAN 6.5% IS NOT GOOD, AND AN A1C THAT IS GOOD BECAUSE YOU GOT IT DUE TO ALL YOUR REACTIVE HYPOGLYCEMIA FROM ALL THE CARBS YOU ATE IS NOT GOOD, EITHER!

OKAY??? Got it????

I don't know about you guys, out there... but I am just... SICK of this kind of crap. It is insulting, and offensive... to simply just UP and lie to people about low carbing, and push your own preferences unto the public... Just because you have an outlet media to do so.








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I’m with you all the way. I’m hoping part of the issue is that those groups in the diabetic community just haven’t caught up yet. but on the other hand, i swung by the ADA site yesterday just for sh*ts and giggles to check out their forums and even their users have numerous posts on the benefits of low carbing. Maybe put the research aside and listen to actual diabetics who live very healthy (BG, lipids, weight etc) lives then take some of that fat cat money and put it to some actual research.

PS. their community isn’t near as cool as ours :stuck_out_tongue:

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I noticed this when I was looking for cook books to help with the transition to lower carb. All I had heard over and over again nutrition class was no more than 45g of carb a meal MAX. Then I look at all the recipes and they’re packed with rice, pasta or fruit. It’s just nuts!

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Well it a shame that there is so much is understanding about all of it. It goes from doctors at hospitals not knowing anything to the Canadain food guide suggesting too many carbs per meal in my oppinion. Really a “diabetic diet” is just healthy eating, nothing really special about it. As for hospitals I say just stay out of em if you can help it. It’s sad and really unbelievable that this is still such an issue in our societies. Especially since we do have access to media, research and such. It’s a very sad story.

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You might find this study interesting: Obese, insulin-resistant women lost more weight on lower carb diets (45% carb/20% protein/35% fat) than on low-fat (60% carb/20% protein/20% fat) diet. The article on Diabetes Health asserts: “The study’s lead author, Raymond Plodkowski, MD, chief of endocrinology, nutrition, and metabolism at the school, said that while low-fat diets are more often prescribed by doctors to help overweight patients shed pounds, low-carb diets seem to be more effective, at least in the short term, at helping dieters overcome insulin resistance.”

Interesting, huh? Given these results, I would argue the next step is to test the results on people with either prediabetes and/or type 2 diabetes. Also, they might want to do longer-term studies to see how lower carb diets impact overall health over a period of years.

Yes, I realize that at 1200 calories/day, the people on the lower-carb diet are eating 135g carbs/day (1200*0.45=540; 540/4=135), so the study does not completely contradict the assertion made by Diabetic Living (which is a Better Homes & Gardens publication). However, it is a step toward greater acceptance of lower carb diets.