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If you check out high profile US dietitian Hope Warshaw aka Old Dog Ma, she reckons low carb is the old dogma, a high carb diet and a bag full of drugs is the way forward. Many dietitians feel the same way. Any experienced diabetic knows a diet comprising of up to 65% carbs will take blood glucose through the roof. Personally I don't know any type two drugs, or even a cocktail of type two drugs that would bring my BG down from the twenties to five. Because that's what my BG numbers would be, on that sort of diet. Maybe she wants all type two's on insulin, and lots of it !
Unfortunately most dietitians advise the same sort of diet of death, as does the NHS and DUK etc. Let's take an active man on 2500 calories a day, 50% carbs, carbs equals around 312 grams of carb. Now, here's the deal, try eating whole fresh foods and trying to get to that sort of carb intake. Getting the message ? I would have to be on 15,000 calories a day eating my whole fresh foods to get to 300 grams of carb per day i.e six times more food than I eat now. As you can see, the only way I can stick to 2500 calories a day is to eat one hell of a lot of highly processed junk. Of course a diet of cereals, bread, pasta, cakes and biscuits etc. makes the task very easy.
So, eating whole fresh foods, it is impossible to eat the amount of food it would require to get anywhere near 300 plus grams of carb. per day. Eating junk is the only way it can be done. The $64.000 question is why are we being told to eat junk ?
I often wonder how much of the massive profits made by multinational multi $billion turnover junk food conglomerates is invested in big pharma, it's a no brainer when you think about it.
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From Hope Warshaw.
"Old Dogma: People with type 2 diabetes should follow a low carbohydrate diet.
New Reality: Nutrition recommendations for people with type 2 diabetes from the American Diabetes Association and other health authorities echo the recently unveiled U.S. 2010 Dietary Guidelines (1/31/11) for carbohydrate : about 45 to 65 percent of calories. (Americans currently eat about 45 to 50 percent of calories as carbohydrate--not a "high carb" intake.)"
http://diabeteshealth.com/read/2011/06/28/7199/type-2-diabetes-from-old-dogmas-to-new-realities---part-2/#commentpost
Unfortunately most dietitians advise the same sort of diet of death, as does the NHS and DUK etc. Let's take an active man on 2500 calories a day, 50% carbs, carbs equals around 312 grams of carb. Now, here's the deal, try eating whole fresh foods and trying to get to that sort of carb intake. Getting the message ? I would have to be on 15,000 calories a day eating my whole fresh foods to get to 300 grams of carb per day i.e six times more food than I eat now. As you can see, the only way I can stick to 2500 calories a day is to eat one hell of a lot of highly processed junk. Of course a diet of cereals, bread, pasta, cakes and biscuits etc. makes the task very easy.
So, eating whole fresh foods, it is impossible to eat the amount of food it would require to get anywhere near 300 plus grams of carb. per day. Eating junk is the only way it can be done. The $64.000 question is why are we being told to eat junk ?
I often wonder how much of the massive profits made by multinational multi $billion turnover junk food conglomerates is invested in big pharma, it's a no brainer when you think about it.
The choice is yours this sort of food
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From Hope Warshaw.
"Old Dogma: People with type 2 diabetes should follow a low carbohydrate diet.
New Reality: Nutrition recommendations for people with type 2 diabetes from the American Diabetes Association and other health authorities echo the recently unveiled U.S. 2010 Dietary Guidelines (1/31/11) for carbohydrate : about 45 to 65 percent of calories. (Americans currently eat about 45 to 50 percent of calories as carbohydrate--not a "high carb" intake.)"
http://diabeteshealth.com/read/2011/06/28/7199/type-2-diabetes-from-old-dogmas-to-new-realities---part-2/#commentpost
