12 Common Diabetes Myths Debunked

[jenniferhelen]

Hi,
As a diabetes patient my self i would like to share this article :

Myth #1: People with diabetes can't eat anything sweet.
Relax -- despite what you may have heard, a piece of cake or a couple of cookies won't cause a health crisis. In fact, sweets can be eaten in moderation by people with type 2 diabetes, if eaten as part of a healthy meal plan and combined with exercise, according to the American Diabetes Association.

Still, while avoiding sweet treats isn't mandatory, limiting them is. Sweets often contain not only empty calories but a lot of sugar, a carbohydrate that raises glucose levels considerably. For better glucose control, diabetics should have dessert only after a low-carb meal. It's important to eat that chicken breast, broccoli, and salad before dishing into some ice cream.

you can read all the myths at this site i across
http://www.caring.com/articles/diabetes-myths

Hope it helps
Jennifer

[gitfiddle]

Hi, Jenniferhelen, and welcome to our board. :) I've been a diabetic for ten years and in my experience, the ADA is not the best source of information. The Protein Power way of eating has brought my blood sugar down to almost normal and have been able to stop taking diabetic medication. My goal is to avoid diabetic neuropathy and keep my good health.

Have you read any of the PP books? The food choices are very satisfying and I don't feel deprived at all. How long has it been since your diagnosis?

[isisrose]

Hi,
As a diabetes patient my self i would like to share this article :

Myth #1: People with diabetes can't eat anything sweet.
Relax -- despite what you may have heard, a piece of cake or a couple of cookies won't cause a health crisis. In fact, sweets can be eaten in moderation by people with type 2 diabetes, if eaten as part of a healthy meal plan and combined with exercise, according to the American Diabetes Association.

Still, while avoiding sweet treats isn't mandatory, limiting them is. Sweets often contain not only empty calories but a lot of sugar, a carbohydrate that raises glucose levels considerably. For better glucose control, diabetics should have dessert only after a low-carb meal. It's important to eat that chicken breast, broccoli, and salad before dishing into some ice cream.

you can read all the myths at this site i across
http://www.caring.com/articles/diabetes-myths

Hope it helps
Jennifer

This is along the lines of thinking of the book "Diabetes For Dummies," which comes right out and tells you go ahead and eat whatever you want, big pharma will just give you more pills or insulin. NO THANKS!!!!!!:suspicious:

And if the healthy meal plan is what the ADA recommends, then well that too isn't healthy. The ADA has been preaching a diet that it acknowledges increases BS and insulin, so we should take their advise why??? The whole thing makes me mad actually. :mad:

Question Jen, have you read PP or PPLP???? There is a plan that can actually completely control your diabetes and other ailments and actually return your BS to normal without drugs!

[mcsblues]

Welcome Jennifer :)

There are certainly a lot of myths there ... not a whole lot of debunking though!

As Carol says, this ADA style advice is causing rather than curing a whole range of problems for diabetics and pre diabetics. Put simply their advice is to eat a low fat, high carb diet ... and deal with the inevitable consequences of doing so with medication ... and ever increasing medication at that. They appear to have reached this conclusion because one of the consequences of poorly controlled diabetic range blood sugar is a marked increase in the risk of many diseases - but notably heart disease. Their dietary recommendations are therefore targeting the (to them) inevitable consequences of failing to address the central issue - blood sugar. Incredibly even if they were right about the need to give up trying to keep blood sugar in check through simple dietary changes - the diet they recommend to ward off heart disease ... is also wrong!! (the recent Women's Health Initiative study is one of many to show cutting fat intake and eating more fruit, vegetables, fibre and of course carbs was/is a complete failure in terms of cutting the incidence of heart disease).

Thankfully there is a better way - for all round general health (especially for but certainly no limited to diabetics) and weight loss/maintenance. Not only is it better but it is, unlike the ADA nonsense, supported by an ever expanding catalogue of sound science. I encourage you to do a bit more reading so you can discover this for yourself (don't take my word for it!)

The Eades books are great, or have a look at the site (and book) of Dr Richard Bernstein (http://www.diabetes-book.com/) - a type 1 diabetic for over 60 years, and as he says, if he had followed the advice the ADA has been handing out ... he wouldn't have been here to see at least the last 30 of those. Kind of puts a new complexion on their 'myths' doesn't it?

[amdawson]

i think this post was just meant to generate hits to a website. let's close the thread.