tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13260386.post4765635524033048669..comments2024-03-13T06:54:20.063-05:00Comments on Weight of the Evidence: The Perils of Crossing the Establishment Boundaries on Dietary AdviceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13260386.post-57714963063159692222008-01-15T07:47:00.000-06:002008-01-15T07:47:00.000-06:00This is what one should expect from registered die...This is what one should expect from registered dietitians and diabetes educators. They are technicians. They don't get paid to think!!!<BR/><BR/>In reality, they don't have a choice. They have to follow the party line. Because they are technicians, they will always be behind the research curve. And we all know that because of the systemic anti-low-carb biases that it will be a long time before "mainstream" science accepts low-carb as the best alternative for many or even most people. Until that time, technicians of any stripe can only be against low carb.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13260386.post-89303786166001549342007-12-20T16:31:00.000-06:002007-12-20T16:31:00.000-06:00Why is it that apparently potatoes and bread are s...Why is it that apparently potatoes and bread are such a cultural mainstay one cannot possibly ask people to do without them, yet we ask people to do without red meat and butter and eggs all the time? Since when are those NOT cultural mainstays?PJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04391277875371518678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13260386.post-61977912372853612002007-12-19T15:13:00.000-06:002007-12-19T15:13:00.000-06:00I'm lucky now to have an endo whose thinking paral...I'm lucky now to have an endo whose thinking parallels that of Eichenbaum. It pains me that others are not so fortunate.<BR/><BR/>Several years ago, though, before my IR diagnosis (back when it was just "hypoglycemic") the RD I consulted put me on Ensure supplements (hello, corn syrup!) and recommended that I eat at Taco Bell because of their "healthy" fast food.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13260386.post-21388340283219282572007-12-19T14:18:00.000-06:002007-12-19T14:18:00.000-06:00Dr. Eichenbaum's advice is fantastic. That's what...Dr. Eichenbaum's advice is fantastic. That's what I do and it works great. The notion of not ignoring cultural preferences and lifestyle needs is a cop out. It is all about choice. I used to love bread, pasta, & potatoes and thought I could never live without them. Now I do without and don't even miss them. This "often results in increased non-compliance"??? Nope, I find compliance with low carb easier than compliance with low fat. I find low carb to be much less restrictive. "Cutting out food groups???" If a food group, such as grains, jacks up your blood sugar, how can it be healthy? These diabetes experts speak with forked tongue. They say to see how food affects blood sugar, but still insist on eating 6 - 11 servings of grains a day per the food pyramid.<BR/><BR/>These kind of tactics we used to force feed the low fat dogma, despite shaky scientific backing and are still being used to maintain it. I wish I could find a doctor like Eichenbaum.renegadediabetichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11710855525093861921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13260386.post-7956711422263883002007-12-19T14:10:00.000-06:002007-12-19T14:10:00.000-06:00Thanks Regina....it seems from time to time that w...Thanks Regina....it seems from time to time that we're making progress, then you see this kind of response. You'd think the doc was promoting bulimia! <BR/><BR/>Good comment Jenny!Alcinda (Cindy) Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14950698583878546323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13260386.post-1835608276914106352007-12-19T10:15:00.000-06:002007-12-19T10:15:00.000-06:00Thanks, Regina. It can get so discouraging. Is it ...Thanks, Regina. It can get so discouraging. Is it better to come up with a diet people can comply with, even though it will generate exactly the opposite health impact needed? How’s that working out? <BR/><BR/>Jenny, good comment.OhYeahBabehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18233544200400642335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13260386.post-2565530131470712112007-12-19T09:52:00.000-06:002007-12-19T09:52:00.000-06:00I consulted a registered dietitian once and was gi...I consulted a registered dietitian once and was given a standard low-fat diet sheet. There was no questions asked of me as to food preferences. Eating low carb has so many more food choices than the recommended low fat. Nature just doesn't make many low fat foods. Trying to eat low fat was hell. Eating low carb is heaven.MikeBikerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01141725032939831066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13260386.post-60624883405793475222007-12-19T09:48:00.000-06:002007-12-19T09:48:00.000-06:00Well said, Regina!Well said, Regina!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11679266571603526922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13260386.post-52398086687813632522007-12-19T09:24:00.000-06:002007-12-19T09:24:00.000-06:00hi there-- new to your blog... some very interesti...hi there-- new to your blog... some very interesting stuff. only recently have i uncovered that everything i knew about fats and carbs has been wrong (thank you sally fallon and gary taubes). so, now i find myself on a quest to find the real story... one of my favourite sayings is, "in god we trust, all others bring data." this site is good source of real data... thank you!joehawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05475403168739519955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13260386.post-30900029662514625592007-12-19T09:00:00.000-06:002007-12-19T09:00:00.000-06:00Folks,Money talks. The only way you will ever get ...Folks,<BR/><BR/>Money talks. The only way you will ever get the establishment to change their horrible policies is to let the organizations who profit when you patronize them know that you will take your business elsewhere if they continue adhering to discredited policies.<BR/><BR/>I recently wrote a long letter to my local hospital detailing why the high carb diet they fed me there made me tell my friends with diabetes "good control ends at the hospital door." <BR/><BR/>The hospital took it seriously. I got a long phone call from a doctor there with substantial political power. If twenty five more people would write to that hospital, explaining why they will go elsewhere unless they change their dietary ways, they'd pay attention to it. They spend a fortune advertising, trying to get patients. <BR/><BR/>We moms of the 1970s and 80s completely changed the way the medical establishment approached childbirth and nursing by making it clear we wouldn't go to hospitals that didn't change their ways.<BR/><BR/>Now we have to do the same thing with doctors, hospitals and nursing homes.<BR/><BR/>Don't wait until you are in the hospital or putting mom in the nursing home. Contact your local hospitals and nursing homes now and ask if their nutritionists are still using discredited research to provide dangerous high carb meals to the patients most at risk from those high carbohydrate loads. Cite Taubes. Cite the A1c heart attack studies. <BR/><BR/>Get your friends to do it too. If only 1000 of us would write these letters, I bet we could change the culture.Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17384082448952856117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13260386.post-84701626664829613812007-12-19T03:43:00.000-06:002007-12-19T03:43:00.000-06:00Dr Eichenbaum's patients are lucky people, I hope ...Dr Eichenbaum's patients are lucky people, I hope they appreciate him - I'd LOVE to have a physician who was supportive of the kind of diet that keeps my diabetes under control!<BR/><BR/>The other fun game allied to circular references is to take a big organisation and see how many different kinds of dietary advice you can discover on their web site. The American Diabetes Association is a classic - there's every spectrum of opinion on there, from low carb upwards, once you get past the dumbed-down uselessness on their front pages. Shame their left hand doesn't talk to the right more often...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13260386.post-30666530309016646022007-12-18T16:15:00.000-06:002007-12-18T16:15:00.000-06:00It's also curious how they select an appropriate d...It's also curious how they select an appropriate diet based on expected compliance. Shouldn't the core recommendation be based on best practices with variations for people who can't adopt the recommendation?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13260386.post-3509226492818810022007-12-18T16:04:00.000-06:002007-12-18T16:04:00.000-06:00Fantastic Post Regina. This is exactly what one fi...Fantastic Post Regina. This is exactly what one finds if you are in the least bit curious about dietry matters. It would seem that there are no free independent thinkers left in these institutions who actually con the public into thinking they are working day & night to save their lives. When in reality these associations are just in it for the money they make & the power of being able to make everyone dance to their tune. Thank God there are people like you willing to highlight this absurd nonsense for what it really is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13260386.post-68468692579665401582007-12-18T14:24:00.000-06:002007-12-18T14:24:00.000-06:00Rather than hire a dietician, why not just hire a ...Rather than hire a dietician, why not just hire a parrot?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com