Cheri wrote:
FOB wrote in message ...

are obviously still stuck in the low fat/high carb syndrome as is the
American Diabetes Association. Fat does not raise BG, carbs do.
Avoid
their badvice.


Ditto that.

I had an interesting conversation yesterday with my daughter's renal
dietitian. I was silly enough to ask her about how many people who grow
up on a renal diet (low protein, low potassium, high white bread/pasta,
high fat) end up with type II diabetes. Of course she went right into
the number of diabetes patients whose kidneys eventually fail. I told
her I understood how that worked but I wanted to know about how you
could avoid becoming diabetic when your whole diet consisted of sugar
with a little fat.

Stupid me, sugar doesn't cause diabetes, being fat causes it. Don't
forget what we all know, you can get fat eating protein and fat too!
Why did I bother?

It's so freaking frustrating, I can only get the kind of data I want
from these people and they don't have it because they already know how
it works. I wouldn't even have talked to her in the first place, except
my daughter (17) has decided to become a vegetarian so she needed to
check in with the dietitian - mostly to be sure she wasn't going to have
problems with high levels of potassium from combining beans and grains.
You know what though? Apparently someone has done some study that
shows that combining for proteins isn't really necessary, so throw away
your copy of Laurel's Kitchen!

We're supposed to read this:
http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore...kid~23215.aspx
I. Can't. Wait. I suppose I could read it concurrently with Taubes.

Sometimes I get the feeling that many medical professionals took their
chemistry just so they could continue their studies, not to enhance
their understanding of those studies. How else can doctors in general
recommend a way of eating that negates everything they learned about
endocrinology and basic organic chemistry?

bitter,
brigid