Is The ADA Finally Going To Promote Low-Carb To Diabetics Beginning In January 2008?
Filed under: Health — jimmy @ 10:53 pm
When I asked Dr. Richard D. Feinman, professor of biochemistry at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York and renowned low-carb researcher, about when he thought diabetes health leaders–including the American Diabetes Association (ADA)–would start realizing livin’ la vida low-carb has merit during my interview with him in June 2006, his answer was hopeful.
“With diabetes, carbohydrate restriction has been a traditional treatment and because the underlying physiology is obvious and accepted. Since low carbohydrates stabilize glucose and insulin excursions, we can expect progress pretty soon. Even the ADA is probably trying to back into carbohydrate restriction with a minimum of losing face.”
Well, it’s about to happen and none too soon.
According to my friend and fellow low-carb blogger Laura Dolson from the About Low-Carb Diets web site, there are “potential changes in ADA recommendations” to be announced in January 2008. It seems they are FINALLY listened to those of us who advocate carbohydrate restriction and are are going to abandon their high-carb recommendations. So much for people like Hope Warshaw dictating what diabetes policy looks like in the United States and it’s about time.
Coming in January 2008, the ADA is expected to publish new dietary guidelines for people suffering with diabetes where livin’ la vida low-carb will be acknowledged and promoted as one way to improve the symptoms of this awful disease. A talking head from the ADA states “there is growing recognition that a variety of diets including low carbohydrate diets, can achieve weight loss [and] improve postprandial blood glucose.” We’ll definitely be looking forward to the new ADA dietary guidelines coming in the January 2008 issue of Diabetes Care and report to you any positive changes they are expected to make. Stay tuned!
In the meantime, the paradigm shift is also happening in the grassroots among those who are passionate about helping people with diabetes. Find out more about what is happening with the controlled-carbohydrate approach behind-the-scenes among diabetes advocacy leaders by clicking here.
