The Best Way to Get Diabetes: Follow the Diabetes Dietary Guidelines
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I recently came across this outrage from the most authoritative diabetes organization in the country:
I wish this “learning center” were a joke – the title certainly is. (I doubt the Greek playwrights could have come up with something so morbidly ironic.) The federal government’s dietary recommendations as per the Food Pyramid are recycled here for diabetics as a beneficial course of treatment for successfully managing blood glucose and insulin. Note that the only difference between this path to diabetes and the regular one is that American Diabetes Association and the American Dietetic Association moved legumes – rightfully – from the meat and fish category to the base of the pyramid. Of course that change pales in comparison to the utter lunacy of recommending a diet of 60-70% grains to diabetics! These are our most esteemed diabetes “experts”. The truth is that if you want to know why we’re facing a diabetes epidemic, look no further. If you want to develop type 2 diabetes, I’m stumped for a more expeditious way to do it.
My dietary recommendations are vastly different and you can see my pyramid to get an idea. If you’re new to this site and are unfamiliar with why grains are the last thing any of us – but especially anyone with blood sugar concerns – should be consuming so recklessly, read my definitive guide to insulin, blood sugar, and type 2 diabetes. The insulin response is one of the most important original mechanisms to have evolved in all animals including humans. The current lemming fidelity to the grain-based diet is but a flash in the evolutionary pan – and a dangerous one, at that.
By the way, the site linked is a commercial one that sell diabetes products. They lifted the pyramid image from the ADA. I’d do the same if I wanted to sell more glucose monitors and syringes.
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Oh, How I Wish I Could “Re-Arrange” This Pyramid!!! ( Yikes!)
Dummies.
That is so stupid. What the heck is they’re angle??
Notice the tomato in the vegetable section and the lemon in the meat section.
I remember a long way back in middle school when my ‘Health’ teacher made it a homework assignment for us to follow this food pyramid, and the recommended servings (we had to keep a log to get the grade). Yuck. Shame they still teach this at schools.
The inner scholar in me cringes at such a sight.
Gee, I’m not diabetic, I’m not pre-diabetic, I’m not even in close danger of becoming it, yet even I know enough about diabetes to realize that these ‘recommendations’ are nothing but an accident waiting to happen…
I mean come on even the USDA has updated their food pyramid — still not right but better than it was. These guys haven’t even done that much.
My mom is a 71 yo with type 2 on oral only. My nutritionist sister, through diet manipulation and supplements was able to get her bg levels from an average in the 160-180’s down to 100-110. Following these idiotic guidelines would undo everything. Just shameful and reckless.
Howdy,
I’ve been enjoying your site for quite a while now and have learned loads. I just really wish you’d take a bit more care to distinguish between type 1 and type 2 diabetes – as a type 1er who’s also something of a health nut, it can be very annoying to be the victim of the stigmatization of type 2 from people who aren’t entirely familiar with the difference.
Otherwise, I totally agree with the post, and keep up the good work!
Travis, good constructive criticism. We’ll try to do better.
Cheers,
M
My grandfather had diabetes. My father (his son) had adult-onset type1 diabetes (essentially died from that). My mother has developed type2 a year or two ago — her sister & nephew on that side of the family has it too (they’re Asian and just can’t seem to give up the idea of white rice).
…You can IMAGINE the prospect of the ticking-bomb here. I have been exposed to all sides of it, in addition to the “waiting game”.
When I started CrossFit I learned about the ZONE diet and it’s lead to a huge epiphany for how my body responds to & processes what I put in it, specifically carbs but more importantly the COMBINATIONs of what I eat.
Not endorsing this, but in an effort to help my mother, I read “How to Halt Diabetes in 25 days” by Mike Adams, and that helped tremendously for the wake-up call to instigate further research.
Thanks for spreading the word to re-think the issue.
Kath, interesting points and glad you found what works for you – thanks for adding to this post.
Thanx, i have been trying to get type 1 diabetes for a while and i thought i should have lots of sugar er somthin. Seriously i have. Im Sooo Not being sarcastic!
Thyx again!
The Food pyramid he is using is one from the 90s, since then it has been updated. Scientific American has done a report on the new and improved pyramid for the year 2000. Check your facts first!
Ouch, Mark! You are trying to turn us all into vegetarians. No way! Most vegetarians I’ve met haven’t been particularly healthy anyway.
ok i want go get diebedies
Being a Type 1 Diabetic the food pyramid doesn’t make any sense or have any value. The only thing that matters is that you take enough insulin to counteract all the carbs you take in during the day. The HARD part is timing the insulin release rate with food intake so you don’t get highs or lows, you rarely have a perfect day, maybe 1 in 30 if you are lucky.
How can they get it so BLATANTLY wrong with countless scientific studies showing over and over again what a high carb diet will do to the human body??? It’s unbelievable! My own MOM has type II diabetes and these idiots recommend the same thing to her. It’s really a tough sell trying to convince her that I’m right, and Mark from marksdailyapple is right, and her 12 years of schooling, DOCTOR is wrong. It’s CRIMINAL the way they spread misinformation. My mother’s health and life expectancy is at stake and these clowns keep feeding her LIES.