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I've been following this ADA post on Twitter the past few days and Nina Teicholz has written a good summary of what has happened so far. I have participated in similar comments over the years to change the ADA approach to diets, at least acknowledge that LC can be an option. After the 2019 Consenus report and the ADA CEO using LC, I thought there would be change, alas, not.

https://unsettledscience.substack.c...es-association?

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Twitter (X) has gone wild in recent days about a video–now viral at 1.9M views–by the new Director of Nutrition & Wellness at the American Diabetes Association (ADA), Stacey Krawczyk, employing a treacly, first-grade-teacher voice to explain how to fill up a 9” plate with green veggies (½ the plate), lean proteins (¼) and the remaining ¼ as “starchy vegetables, rice, pasta, bread.” This last category of carb-rich foods elicited 282 feisty comments, 100% negative. Quite a few wondered the obvious: why tell diabetics to eat starches (carbohydrates) when one could well define diabetes as simply a condition of carbohydrate intolerance? One commenter suggested adding a Coke to complete the meal.

Video, links to comments, push-back from low-carbs at SubStack

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Apparently fed up with the extensive push-back, the ADA shut down open comments after two days (enjoy them here). Stacey’s previous jobs include seven years as a “business partner” and senior manager in nutrition at the Kellogg Company.

In this 2018 video, she gives a talk to young women on how to be healthy and then has a few volunteers come forward to help her promote Kellogg’s Special K. Telling a diabetic to eat carbohydrates and ‘cover” them with insulin is like advising someone with a nut allergy to eat nuts with an Epipen nearby. It works, but is it the best option?

Insulin causes weight gain and ever-worsening diabetes, leading to such conditions as blindness, limb amputation, kidney failure, heart disease and death six years earlier than non-diabetic peers. By contrast, restricting carbohydrates has been shown in clinical trials to reverse the disease within weeks. The ADA must know these facts as well as anyone. It has long recognized low average blood sugars (glycemic control) as a crucial factor in treating diabetes, and its 2019 consensus report concluded that “[r]educing overall carbohydrate intake for individuals with diabetes has demonstrated the most evidence for improving glycemia [blood sugar control].” Ergo, per the ADA, carbohydrate reduction should be the first-and-best course of action.

In fact, the last CEO of the ADA, Tracey Brown, once explained in an interview how she herself had reversed her type 2 diabetes with a low-carbohydrate diet. Then, she was told by her board never to talk about the subject again (here’s her hostage-like retraction video).

The ADA’s current nutrition course includes no mention of low-carbohydrate diets, according to a student who recently attended. Why the ADA instead persists in telling people with diabetes to consume carbohydrates at every meal, including apple crisp with oats and packed brown sugar, may be related to the entities that fund them: the ADA receives more than $1 million yearly from each of the world’s top insulin manufacturers, including Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi. (These are in the ADA donor “Banting circle elite,” a more-than ironic use of the Banting name. While Frederick Banting may have shared the Nobel Prize for discovering insulin, William Banting was, in the 1860s, the Atkins of his day, with a hugely popular diet booklet on how to lose weight by restricting carbs.)

Judging from the level of outrage on X, we’re thinking it’s time to start the non-corrupt American Diabetes Association. Anyone? See you in the comments.