A tiny mental leap

The NY Times reported on a new study showing that a low glycemic diet trumped a high grain diet at improving type II diabetes.

Essentially what this means is that a lower carb diet is better than a higher carb diet for a type II diabetic to eat.

Why then can't these people make the tiny mental leap needed to think low carb or very low carb as an even better diet especially when there is research to back it up. I mean, people's lives are at stake here including children's lives.

Nuts.

Comments

[Fred Hahn]

If the ADA and the AMA right now admitted it was as simple as it really is, they'd be sued from here to kingdom come. This is what I think the issue is.

[Dana]

Yep. Diabetes is a disease of the glucose metabolism pathway caused by insufficient insulin or poor insulin response. There are three ways to deal with it: increase insulin, increase insulin sensitivity or reduce glucose intake. Guess which would actually be easier on the body to do.

My dad was diagnosed diabetic in 2005 and now he has anemia, which is really dangerous in diabetics. Guess what one of the causative agents of anemia in diabetics is? Metformin. That "miracle drug" that increases insulin sensitivity. All he had to do was cut out the bread, rice, and sugar, and stop drinking. Sigh.

[Anne]

That particular study Sam was not a mental leap, it was high carb, high carb, high carb ! If you're diabetic you need a very low carb diet.

So the mental leap would be to go to a low carb diet.

Anne

[Sam]

He, indeed, what is preventing them to make this mental leap?

If your find what is keeping them back (some study stating the opposite? Fear to have to say they've been wrong all the time?), you might find a way to change it.

[Anne]

I put it, here it is again: http://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2008/12/more-bad-science-low-glycemic-diet-in.html

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Anne

[Fred Hahn]

Right Anne. What is her blog address?

[Anne]

Hi Fred,

For more about that study you might like to read Jenny Ruhl’s (author of ‘Bood sugar 101, what they don’t tell you about diabetes’) latest blog:

“Despite the media spin, what this study actually did was attempt to answer a stupid question: Is a high carb/low fat diet made up predominantly of pasta, beans, carrots, pears, oranges and skim milk better for people with diabetes than a high carb/low fat diet made up of Wheetabix, potatoes, mangoes, skim milk and toast.

The answer turns out to be “yes,” very slightly.”

For the rest of it: ‘More Bad Science: The “Low Glycemic” Diet in the JAMA Study is the ADA Low Fat Diet’ http://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2008/12/more-bad-science-low-glycemic-diet-in.html

bw's
Anne