NIH Clueless About Diabetes, Needs An Education On Blood Sugar Control Benefits

Filed under: Health — jimmy @ 7:47 pm

If you care about diabetes health, then sign this petition!

Have you seen this so-called ACCORD “study” that concludes there is a HIGHER death risk among those diabetics who attempt to control their blood sugar levels? This is NOT a joke–that’s exactly what they’re saying and this just goes beyond the pale.

Check out this ridiculous statement from the abstract of the ACCORD study:

“As compared with standard therapy, the use of intensive therapy to target normal glycated hemoglobin levels for 3.5 years increased mortality and did not significantly reduce major cardiovascular events,” the authors conclude. “These findings identify a previously unrecognized harm of intensive glucose lowering in high-risk patients with type 2 diabetes.”

Okay, let’s think about this logically for a moment. A diabetic who is attempting to control their disease through an “intensive therapy” (we’ll assume this doesn’t mean carbohydrate restriction, although it should) of controlling their blood sugars over a 3 1/2 year period of time had an INCREASED risk of death and NO REDUCTION in the risk of a heart attack? Is that what they’re saying? So are we to believe through deductive reasoning that a diabetic who allows their blood sugar to stay out of whack indefinitely without any treatment is better off than those who do try to normalize glucose levels?

Am I missing something here? Click here to read even more about the conclusions of this study and how YOU can get involved with signing a petition to tell the NIH about how the low-carb lifestyle safely controls your blood sugar levels without the need for any prescription drugs or other medications which are the likely culprits in the increased mortality rates.