Françoise wrote in message <[email hidden]>... Hi
. Anyone can comment if they want.
A doctor, who is a specialist in an other field than diabetes, was writing about the Rice diet,
which is recommended by Dr. Kempner for treating hypertension. What he wrote kind of shocked me. I
want you to comment on it.
He wrote: “The Rice diet have been seen to cure diabetes.”
I wrote: “Why is the ADA not recommending this diet?”
He wrote: “They (ADA) are owned in part by the drug industry which likes to sell diabetes meds.
Otherwise they would be recommending getting weight into the low BMI range and THEN use drugs if
necessary.
I wrote “I thought there was no cure for diabetes”
Then he wrote: “Work with your Dr. To do the following test: Test GTT now and then after you have
gotten to those good insurance weights. If the diabetes is no longer detectable with a GTT then you
have been able to feed (or starve) your genes so they no longer produce too much fat for what you
eat. You are no longer insulin resistant.”
I am really puzzled by his statements. It seems to me that eating just rice for many days if not
weeks and months and then add some fruits to it for an even longer time is not the ideal way for a
diabetic to eat.
He seems to say that it would be the ideal diet for me. I have been at a good weight for years but I
am still insulin resistant. He thinks that my insulin resistant would completely disappeared.
I cannot believe it. Should I?
I have control by BG well with lots of exercise for 10 years. My A1C is in the normal range. I would
be happy if it could be controlled more easily without exercise so that, if one day I cannot
exercise as much my BG would still be controlled. I am a senior and I exercise everyday for around
10 hours a week. I never go to bed with a BG higher than 7 (126) and often under 6 (108). I do not
and never follow a high protein diet.
What do you think?
Françoise.
This person who made these claims is a very unreliable person.
1. This person says the ADA does not recommend diet, exercise and losing weight.
That is total nonsense!. That is the first thing they recommend.
2. This person says some diet will "cure" diabetes.
That is total nonsense. Diabetes cannot yet be cured. One can only attack some of the symptoms. One
of the symptoms happens to be high blood sugars.
3. This person says you will be able to "feed or starve your genes so that they no longer produce
too much fat"
That is total nonsense. One cannot feed genes, one cannot starve genes. One cannot do anything to
genes except pass them on to one's children and even that is not particularly controllable.
4. This person says that if you reduce your weight to the Insurance Company Chart targets, you will
no longer be Insulin Resistant.
That is total nonsense. Everybody is Insulin Resistant to some degree, even children, even non-
diabetics.
Diabetics must try to reduce their Insulin Resistance to non-harmful levels Losing fat pounds
reduces Insulin Resistance but is rarely sufficient to bring it to non-harmful levels if you are
Type 2 diabetic. You must also maintain proper exercise levels.
5. He says the ADA is owned by the Drug companies and thus implies that the ADA exists to sell
diabetes meds.
That is total nonsense. The ADA is a non-profit entity closely regulated by the government. It is
controlled by doctors, not by drug companies.
The doctors teach, as major policies:
a. Avoid drugs as much as you can
b. Use the cheap, generic drugs as much as you can (metformin, generic beta stimulators
Many research doctors think diabetics should take drugs sooner than the ADA recommends. However,
the drug they recommend, metformin, is extremely cheap, not-patented, used for 40 years, and
manufactured all over the world by many companies, both large and small. . .which means nobody
makes a large enough profit on it to be worth manipulating the ADA, doctors, the government or
anybody else.
6. This person recommends some diet based on rice and fruit to "cure" diabetics..
That is total nonsense. These are foods which are troublesome for all diabetics. They will raise
blood sugar and thus cause severe damage to the arteries, eyes, kidneys, and beta cells among other
organs. If the diet doesn't kill you rapidly, it will make you blind, destroy your kidneys, and make
you dependent on injected insulin.
What kind of "doctor" is this person? I think he belongs in jail.
Regards
Old Al
