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Dr. Richard K. Bernstein Speaks Out On The New ADA Dietary GuidelinesArticles - Dr. Bernstein Shares His Insights Forty years ago Richard K. Bernstein, M.D., F.A.C.E., F.A.C.N., FCCWS, tried to tell the ADA that by lowering your carbs that you could improve your diabetes control, and they laughed him out of the building. This week he discusses the new ADA Guidelines regarding the use of low-carbohydrate diets.Diabetes Solution Revised and Updated 2007
Dr. Richard K. Bernstein Speaks Out On The New ADA Dietary Guidelines My thoughts about the American Diabetes Association (ADA) new treatment guidelines are premature since I’ve only seen the press release. The guidelines regarding low carbohydrate diets appear to relate only to weight loss and improvement in lipid profiles. Totally ignored in the press release is the fact that normal blood sugars are unattainable on the ADA high carbohydrate diet. I suspect that the guidelines for blood sugar targets will still be well above normal levels which run around 83mg/dl (4.6 mmol/L) for most adults. Likewise, the new guidelines for HgbA1c are likely to be well above the normal range of about 4.2-4.6 %. In other words, diabetics are not entitled to the blood sugars of the non-diabetics who write the guidelines. Lets see if I’m right! It is also likely that the actual guidelines will claim that there is no evidence of the long-term safety of low carbohydrate diets. The obvious evidence lies in the millennia before wheat was processed into flour…when there was neither obesity nor atherosclerosis. Likewise we can look at more recent low carbohydrate consuming populations like Eskimos, Fuji Islanders, jungle inhabitants, Australian aborigines and native Americans who experienced neither obesity nor diabetes until the introduction of flour, corn meal and other high carbohydrate foods. On the other hand our experience with high carbohydrate diets over the last 40 years has been disastrous and needs no further comment. It appears that the ADA’s new acceptance of low carbohydrate diets as a possible approach to the treatment of obesity is a mild concession to the many studies that show these diets to be safer and more effective than the high carbohydrate diet, that the ADA has pushed for many years. It may also be a concession to the many protests by diabetic patients over callous indifference to the well being of the patient . For copies of many of the scientific studies comparing high and low carbohydrate diets visit (nmsociety.org) Richard K Bernstein, MD, FACE, FACN, FACCWS Would you like to ask Dr. Bernstein a question?? Next FREE LIVE WEBCAST: Wednesday, January 16, 2007, we wll be having another live webcast and teleconference call with Dr. Richard K. Bernstein, who will answer questions from medical professionals and patients and it is free. Just go to www.diabetes911.net and register and ask a question if you like! To listen to the last 10 webcasts go to www.thebernsteinconnection.com
Also available a 5CD-6hour education series by Dr. Richard K. Bernstein: ORDER NOW!! www.diabetes911.net ALSO CHECK OUT Dr. Bernstein’s new site with all of his videos features and teleconference calls.
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January 6, 2008
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