[Diabetes-talk] Excellent Article

[Bernadette Jacobs]

On 6/16/12, Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com> wrote:
> Diabetics are often bombarded with advice on what's the "best" diet for
> them
> (as if diabetes is just one disease). The American diabetes Association
> tells us not to eliminate carbs from our diet (ignoring the fact that the
> Inuit did and are doing quite well, thank you, without much carbohydrate in
> the diet). The Atkins people hit us with just the opposite advice but
> arouse
> suspicion in some because of their association with certain types of
> alternative medical therapies.
>
>
>
> It seems as though the advice is driven as much by the current
> politically-correct, medical and scientific fads as it is by solid research
> (which is damnably difficult to do when dealing with diets and nutrition).
> And seldom is the *real* science behind all these assertions carefully and
> rigorously examined. It's high time this changed. It's why I had a
> different
> sourt of dietitian at last year's DAN Seminar and why I often come across
> as
> a terminal skeptic.
>
>
>
> Check out the blog post at the link shown below and get what seems to be
> more the straight scoop on all this. Many of our most cherished and
> unquestioned assumptions turn out to have little scientific basis.
>
>
>
> http://www.drbriffa.com/2012/03/05/whats-wrong-with-the-dietary-advice-diabe
> tes-uk-dishes-out-to-diabetics/
>
>
>
> Mike Freeman
>
>
>
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Ya know gang, I was at that DAN Seminar and I really appreciated what
that lady had to say.  I think that the way she mapped things out
makes one's diabetes far more manageable.  Blindness, (at least to
most of us here), is a mere nuisance; a characteristic.  We should be
able to make diabetes the same; a mere characteristic or condition
which we ourselves are all able to manage and control without being
forced by myth, misconception, and society in general to regard our
diabetes as a curse!!  Can't have this; can't have that; gotta eat
this; gotta eat that; can only eat one cup of this; and whatever you
do, don't forget your daily allowance of cardboard packaging; so help
you God!!!  After all, ya gotta eat that because if ya eat something
that actually tastes good, it's gonna be bad for ya.  I thought the
bottom line of what that lady said was very simple: If you eat two
pieces of chocolate fudge cake at the end of your meal and two hours
later, you peak at 360, you know better than to ever do that again.
especially if only you've eaten one piece of that cake and your sugar
peaks at 165ish, then you know to allow yourself just one piece.  The
object here is to set and know your peak so that if you rise above it,
you know to cut yourself off.  Like Lynn said previously, the key is
"MODERATION!"  It's not that you can't have what pleasures of life you
wish.  You simply need to use discretion, disciplin and self control.
If you can't control it, don't go there.  Simple as that. My other
advice is test, test, test so you know where you are at all times.
And, if you don't like your numbers, take heed and don't be afraid to
seek counsel if you need.

Bern