"Working Together"....just not with the ADA.
Their corporate sponsors are Big Pharma and Food, write them off and move on to the many positive ways to spread knowledge about the solution of simple diet changes through social media. People are finding their own tribe, finding crowd-sourced knowledge on how best to control their blood sugar.
Dr Bernstein, Atkins, then Westman have been voices for the treatment of carb intolerance through diet for years. But now individuals like the
https://www.diabetes-warrior.net have been spreading the word, even having to fight the NC Dietetics association that tried to shut him down. From websites to wider social media, FB pages like Reversing Diabetes and TypeOneGrit counter the nonsense from the ADA (there have been some wild threads on the ADA FB page over the past few years). Individuals keep chipping away at the official ADA posts...someone added this paper this morning as a comment.
http://www.nutritionjrnl.com/articl...0332-3/abstract
Something I've noticed in just the past year is that individuals with no formal medical training, who have taken control of their health and are spreading the word, have not gotten the push back through legal channels like Diabetes Warrior did.
Check out the 2 KetoDudes, both software engineersy. They had a weekend long KetoFest and are now "teaching" diabetes management at two companies in Texas (recent podcast episode)
http://2ketodudes.com/#science. The advice for the last 30 years has created an obesity and Diabetes epidemic, so even companies are not inviting the "experts" anymore but turning to people who have learned how to reverse their diabetes. Be a success...then talk about it at small groups, (my friend Jess did just that
https://www.dietdoctor.com/people-c...ved-life-health) Maybe your doctor who recommended Atkins would sponsor a group support meeting? Those who have been at this for years say the change will not trickle down from the government or lobby groups like the ADA, but will be a ground swell of crowd sourced knowledge that changes the advice.
EDIT: after writing this, I found this link on a general nutrition and metabolism page. Everyone and his brother (at least in my little world) is out for the ADA.
https://therussells.crossfit.com/20...-and-cover-ups/
And check YouTube for Butter Bob Briggs, aka Butter Makes Your Pants Fall Off