A Conspiracy Reality...Not Just a "Theory"

Came across a blog, Hold the Toast, that also lead me to another great website, The Metabolism Society that focuses on the science of diet that contradicts the conventional wisdom of mainstream dietary advice...especially that doled out by the non-profit organizations that are supposedly in existence to help people live healthy lives.

So how is it that the American Diabetic Association recommends the carbohydrate-based food pyramid diet to diabetics? Hold the Toast has the details:

Those of us in the low carb community have long shaken our heads, wondering why, oh why, the American Diabetes Association still insists that the best diet for people with severely impaired carbohydrate metabolisms is a low fat diet loaded with starch -- aka "lots of sugar holding hands." The research and clinical experience of doctors like Dr. Richard Bernstein and Dr. Mary Vernon seems to affect them not at all. Nor do years of positive clinical research, or the stories of millions of diabetics who have controlled their blood sugar through low carbohydrate diets.

They also seem oblivious to the fact that before hypoglycemic medication was invented, low carbohydrate diets were commonly recommended for diabetics: Dr. John Rollo, Surgeon General in the Royal Artillery of the British Army being credited as the first modern doctor to recommend such a diet for treatment of the disease. This text, Diabetes Mellitus and Its Treatment, by R.T. Williamson MD, was published in 1898, and includes this statement:Ever since Rollo published his book on diabetes in 1797, and pointed out the value of restriction of the carbohydrates in the food, it has been acknowledged that of all forms and methods of treatment this dietetic one is the most important.

Yet the ADA continues to recommend a diet of the very foods that destabilize blood sugar, instructing diabetics to "cover" those "healthy" carbs with higher and higher doses of medication -- this, despite it being generally recognized that tight blood sugar control is the most important preventive of diabetic complications.

Why?

Take a look at this: a list of the ADA's top corporate sponsors. See the "Banting level" sponsors, the biggest bankrollers of the ADA? All but one of them are pharmaceutical companies. The remaining one -- BD -- is a medical supplies corporation whose business includes "diabetes care" and "pharmaceutical systems. All of them make money off of diabetes. All of them. They are all making money, very big money, off of diabetes medications. I question whether those sponsors have any corporate interest in diabetes interventions that would dramatically lessen the quantity of drugs diabetics have to take.

Why folks...that sounds sort of like a ummmm......let's see...big corporations donate $$$$ to Government subsidized non-profit organization that recommends people eat the kind of food that causes diabetes so that they can continue to have customer base dependent on their lucrative medications and equipment rather than simply changing their diet and CURING their diabetes...

....why, that actually sounds like an ummmmmmmmmm.....ahhh....conspiracy?