Re: ADA, cookbooks and diabetic diets


Kurt wrote in message <16af7417-216d-47e7-8246-

I've found that most people here who criticize [the ADA] haven't really read them and instead are just parroting what others here say.

Umm, true. Welcome to USENET, where 90% of everything is crap. Your
statement also applies to Atkins, Ornish, Taubes, Karl Marx, Plato and
the Bible.

The ADA's dietary advice is helpful to millions and could help more if they abandon their regular way of eating,..

True. Here on a.s.d, most of the regular posters who have normalized
our blood sugars use a low-carb approach. If you go over to, say, the
Joslin boards (sorry, don't have a link handy) you can meet type II
diabetics who are 'in the 5% club' on moderate carb diets, carb
exchange diets and the like. From my experience, tho, they uniformly
avoid fast carbs - white rice, pasta, beer AND ESPECIALLY SUCROSE AND
HFCS. They build their diets around starches like lentils, whole
grains, and raw starchy vegetables like carrots.

It's interesting that Atkins and Ornish both agree on a few points -
and one of them is 'AVOID HIGHLY REFINED CARBS AND ESPECIALLY TABLE
SUGAR.' (and the ADA agrees on-again off-again.) I advocate low-carb
for the best bg control. But I'd certainly agree that people would
just give up the most highly refined carbs, (without changing the
percentage of carbs in their diets) they'd be over half the way home.

Back to Andy - don't believe me. Don't believe the ADA. Don't
believe Atkins. Don't believe Kurt. Trust your body.
Get yourself a good blood glucose meter. Eat what you consider to be
a healthy breakfast. Test yourself at 45 min after the beginning of
your meal, then again at 2 hours. If you can keep your postprandials
below 140 mg/dl, then your diet is mostly OK. If your bg goes higher
than that, change something. Rinse, wash, repeat.

Adam Becker Sr


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