ADA vs low carbs

[Guest guest]

>>>>>The American Diabetes Association recommends a high-carbohydrate/low fat

diet. I used to have a pamphlet they put out. As Dr. Bernstein points

out, it is highly illogical to ask someone to eat a diet high in the

very thing his/her body cannot properly process.

Amen to this. I can never understand why they recommend the high carb diet for

diabetics. When I was first diagnosed and didn't have a clue why my blood sugar

was up, my doctor told me that it was from carbs, and he explained to me that

carbs were in a lot of foods, even milk. <non diabetics think it's just from

eating sugar> Then I went to a dietitian and she told me to eat more carbs than

I was already eating at the time of diagnosis. Talk about confusion....... I

left that place running. I have given in a few times and quit fighting the

system and eaten the ADA recommended diet <high carbs>. WOW >>>>> sky high

numbers for me and more drugs.

I always end up going back to low carbs to get my numbers back in line. I am

just trying to accept this is the way my body wants me to eat. It doesn't seem

natural to me to eat the carbs and then take drugs/insulin to cover it. I

recently stopped all of my insulin because it was making me starving and it did

not change my numbers in any way. My A1c actually went up. I think this was

because I was eating so much. Right now my numbers are better than they have

been in a while with the least drugs because I have been eating low carb.

I am taking one day at a time and still learning something new everyday.

I still have problems if I don't eat enough carbs and my liver will kick in some

glucose for me and make my blood sugar go up. So there is a fine line of just

how many carbs to eat. For me, it's very few, distributed throughout the day.

I have yet to control the dawn phenomenon. I have figured out though if I take

an Amaryl upon waking and eat a small carb, it will bring it down pretty fast.

So I purposely am getting up earlier and taking my pill and eating so that dawn

thing is not going on for that long.

Kat

[Guest guest]

It is my personal opinion that the ADA is in the pay of the drug

companies. They want us to eat a high-carb diet so that their corporate

sponsors can sell us their drugs.

ADA vs low carbs

Amen to this. I can never understand why they recommend the high carb

diet for diabetics. When I was first diagnosed and didn't have a clue

why my blood sugar was up, my doctor told me that it was from carbs, and

he explained to me that carbs were in a lot of foods, even milk. <non

diabetics think it's just from eating sugar> Then I went to a dietitian

and she told me to eat more carbs than I was already eating at the time

of diagnosis. Talk about confusion....... I left that place running.

I have given in a few times and quit fighting the system and eaten the

ADA recommended diet <high carbs>. WOW >>>>> sky high numbers for me

and more drugs.

[Guest guest]

It is my personal opinion that the ADA is in the pay of the drug

companies. They want us to eat a high-carb diet so that their corporate

sponsors can sell us their drugs.

This is interesting that you should mention this because I have always thought

that. When I bring up any type of low-carb diet that might control my diabetes

when I see my endocrinologist, she just looks at me and doesn't respond. Diet

is never talked about. It has taken me over 3 years to finally get fed up with

all the drugs that are not working for me. For all the money that I am saving

from not buying those drugs <expensive even with the co-pay> I could buy a lot

of good low-carb foods. AND also a fancy exercise machine....... By

the way, exercise is never mentioned at my appointments either.

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exercise wasnt mentioned at mine either now i think about it. I didnt

understand why my sugar was up in the morning when at night it was in the 70's

thanks for the information about the d p.

grace

Re: ADA vs low carbs

It is my personal opinion that the ADA is in the pay of the drug

companies. They want us to eat a high-carb diet so that their corporate

sponsors can sell us their drugs.

This is interesting that you should mention this because I have always

thought that. When I bring up any type of low-carb diet that might control my

diabetes when I see my endocrinologist, she just looks at me and doesn't

respond. Diet is never talked about. It has taken me over 3 years to finally

get fed up with all the drugs that are not working for me. For all the money

that I am saving from not buying those drugs <expensive even with the co-pay> I

could buy a lot of good low-carb foods. AND also a fancy exercise

machine....... By the way, exercise is never mentioned at my appointments

either.

[Guest guest]

, Bruce wrote:

> Medical schools don't teach nutrition, you know. Interestingly, chiropractic

schools do.

Also homeopathy schools teach it.

.....IRene

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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.