Re: Low carbohydrate diet for glycemic and lipidemia control

In article <4gbi5uF1jneggU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Susan <nevermind@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Jim Chinnis wrote:

I don't know the history, but I assume the bad medical advice came first.
Then the "sponsors" saw a good thing and jumped on board. And now it's
harder to correct the bad medicine because of the sponsors.

Is that the story?

It's sort of. The diagnostic threshold was set deliberatly too high to
diagnose most type 2s back in the 70s, I think it was, because there was
no treatment or meters for home use and there was lots of employment and
health insurance discrimination. Noble of them. Not so of those
perpetuating those ranges, though, now that we know how much damage
occurs with any fbg above 100 or post prandial above 140.

Unfortunately, this rationale has gotten lost in the years that gave
us meters and more knowledge about prevention and the drug metformin,
and lots of folks develop advanced diabetic complications while still
running blood glucose in the "pre-diabetic" range. I'm talking
peripheral neuropathies, nephropathy and retinopathies, along with
autonomic neuropathies.

Those sponsors don't want us eating in a way that keeps us in normal
healthy ranges of bg; it means doing without all or most of their
products, except for generic metformin.

See phlaunt.com/diabetes

Susan

Thanks for pointing out phlaunt.com/diabetes !

Another interesting turning point that happened in the 70s was Earl
Butz's decision to encourage the growing of corn. Earl was the Sec. of
agriculture . With all the resulting corn what to do with it became an
issue. Answer whiskey and high fructose corn syrup. We are talking
lots of carbs here. The latter is in just about everything.
Perhaps the switch to ethanol will lower our carbohydrate
consumption? However I hear it takes more energy to make it. If global
warming is a reality carbon is still carbon. A rock and a hot place.

Gut feeling...blood sugar and heart issues will become more
intertwined. Obesity, blood sugar and CAD require a new word. OBBSCAD?

Bill

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