🥩 Does the ADA benefit from "fixing" diabetes?
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Pre-Diabetes and Type 2 diabetes, in their truest sense, are carbohydrate intolerances, yet the ADA recommends eating 1/4 of your plate in carbohydrates.
As Nina Teicholz puts it: "Telling a diabetic to eat carbohydrates and 'cover’ them with insulin is like advising someone with a nut allergy to eat nuts with an EpiPen nearby. It works, but is it the best way?"
And at the same time, the vegetables they recommend are non-starchy… can someone please explain this contradictory advice? Perhaps promoting half-truths keeps the general public fooled longer.
The industry is always hiring “industry experts” with obvious conflicts of interest. For instance, Stacey, the ADA's Director of Nutrition & Wellness, had previous jobs, including seven years as a “business partner” and senior manager in nutrition at the Kellogg Company. In this 2018 video, she talks to young women about how to be healthy and then has a few volunteers come forward to help her promote Kellogg’s Special K. The association also accepts funding from insulin manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies.
The ADA knows restricting carbohydrates has been shown in clinical trials to reverse the disease within weeks. Its 2019 consensus report concluded that “[r]educing overall carbohydrate intake for individuals with diabetes has demonstrated the most evidence for improving glycemia [blood sugar control].” Ergo, per the ADA, carbohydrate reduction should be the first and best course of action.
I have observed a similar situation with the American Heart Association, which received donations from medical device and pharmaceutical companies and used observational studies to perpetuate the promotion of a low-saturated fat diet.
✌🏻and ribeyes,
Miranda Ebner MS, LN and The Yes2Meat Team
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