I was posting on Veggie Boards and there is a topic about Type II diabetes. Someone mentioned the American Diabetic Associations website for help with meal planning. I browsed the website BRIEFLY and noticed a couple of things that I thought was NOT good information. Let me start!
1. They mention sugar alcohols and then in parenthesis they call them artificial sweeteners. This is really stupid because they are not artificial. Xylitol for example, is produced in very small amounts by your body. It’s also found in many fruits and is most commercially obtained from birch bark. Erythryitol is found in some fruits and in fermented foods. Sorbitol is also found in some fruits. Maltitol is the only one that is really artificial but even then it’s made from non-artificial ingredients (maltose and starch in corn).
2. They have a superfoods page, awesome! Yet they list low fat dairy and yogurt as superfoods even though there has been studies that suggest a link between dairy products and diabetes. There have also been studies that suggest a benefit from dairy with diabetes. Even so, the website fails to mention the negative effects of dairy such as it’s contribution to mucus forming, it’s actual calcium depletion role, and the fact that animal protein is inferior to plant protein.
3. There is a section on the site that says limit your consumption of solid oils like coconut oil because these oils are high in calories and saturated fats. The later is true however saturated fats don’t increase heart disease risk and the ones in coconut oil are short chain unlike the long chain found in animal products. Plus, coconut oil is really beneficial for diabetics.
4. They mention to drink water (which is good) or sugar free diet drinks (which is bad) instead of sugary drinks like soda (also bad). Diet drinks often contain artificial sweeteners which can have negative effects on people. Aspartame, Splenda, Acesulfame-K…etc are not desirable ingredients we want to be ingesting. Sugar alcohols on the other hand (which are completely sugar free as well although not completely calorie free) have many health benefits and are natural. Stevia can be used as well.
4. The website fails to mention doctors and nutritionists who are actually REVERSING Type II (and in some cases Type I) diabetes. The entire thing is about controlling your diabetes, not curing it. Everyone keeps saying they want a cure for diabetes but there are already doctors and nutritionists out there who are reversing this horrible problem.
Dr. Gabriel Cousins is one amazing guy who has a retreat in Patagonia Arizona. He has a documentary out called Raw For 30 Days in which 6 diabetics (some Type I) went there and went raw for 30 days. One dropped out of the program but the other 5 stayed. After only 4 days (4 DAYS) all were off insulin and some of these people have been diabetic for 10+ years. Amazing stuff. Has a book out on the subject as well. Check out his book There is a Cure for Diabetes
Dr. Neal Barnard is another amazing guy. He’s from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. He also has a book out.
If you have diabetes, check out those two doctors and their books. I wish you all the best of luck.
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