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On May 28, 5:38?pm, Tim Shoppa <sho...@trailing-edge.com>wrote:
>Ozgirl wrote:
>>care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/full/27/9/2266
>
>>""If carbohydrates increase blood glucose, why not restrict total
>>carbohydrate intake in individuals with diabetes?
>
>>Blood glucose is increased in individuals with diabetes in both the fed and
>>fasted state. This abnormal metabolic response is due to insufficient
>>insulin secretion, insulin resistance, or a combination of both. Although
>>dietary carbohydrate increases postprandial glucose levels, avoiding
>>carbohydrate entirely will not return blood glucose levels to the normal
>>range. Additionally, dietary carbohydrate is an important component of a
>>healthy diet. For example, glucose is the primary fuel used by the brain and
>>central nervous system, and foods that contain carbohydrate are important
>>sources of many nutrients, including water-soluble vitamins and minerals as
>>well as fiber (31). Given the above, low-carbohydrate diets are not
>>recommended in the management of diabetes. Recently, the National Academy of
>>Sciences-Food and Nutrition Board recommended that diets provide 45-65% of
>>calories from carbohydrate, with a minimum intake of 130 g carbohydrate/day
>>for adults (31)."
>
>>And Kurt expects people to take the ADA seriously? And how can one take
>>seriously the comment about the National Academy of Sciences carb
>>recommendation? How does that relate to diabetics?
>
>Everything they write makes perfect sense for me, I don't see a single
>lie.
>
>Take a look at the "before" in the before/after pictures in _The
>Discovery of Insulin_ if you want to see what a type 1 subsisting on a
>nearly-zero-carb diet without insulin looks like. Better than dying, I
>suppose.
>
>Tim.-

Tim,

dLife had a great documentary about the discovery of insulin and
talked a lot about the extreme diets some T1's were put on in an
effort to extend their life. Not a pretty sight. It still amazes,
and humbles, me to think that if I had been born 50 years earlier I
probably wouldn't have lived much past 25.

Threads like this happen in here anytime someone dares to offer an
opinion or present an opposing article that goes against the mobspeak
here. No cite from anyone is definitive when it comes to what the
right diet is. There are many different schools of thought and it's a
shame that only one side is so heavily beaten on the cyber drums here.

The title of this thread could just as easily be "How many lies can
fit in one newsgroup?"
It all boils down to the one lie that is keeping folks from curing