Dash is current diet recommended to heart attack survivors by my doctor and dietitian.
“Dash is current diet recommended to heart attack survivors by my doctor and dietitian.”
No kidding!!! That’s why we’re all here off in Kooksville, while the ‘professionals’ are continuing in their ways. But consider the following:
1. The absolutely ATROCIOUS record of the ‘professionals’ when it came to eating eggs or butter. Eggs have been completely absolved of any negative health effects, while people who left butter for industrial lubricants (sometimes referred to as margarine) were much, much, worse off regarding health. Both of these ‘professional’ recommendations have since been fully reversed. And I’m sure there are plenty of others.
2. The ‘professionals’ are human beings. They usually have jobs and families, and want to be able to provide for them. So when they’re told what to recommend, they will usually do as told, as bucking those recommendations could cost them their jobs and/or their funding streams (which are often drug or processed food companies).
3. So who’s really calling the shots? If you work for a medical group, and the medical group tells you what type of advice to give, and what type not to give, most people (doctors, etc.) will do as told. Ditto for insurance companies trying to minimize risk.
4. So how do medical groups and insurance companies minimize risk of lawsuits? Easy, do what the government and semi-government types recommend. For diabetics, it means listening the ADA. Much harder to sue, regardless of results, if everything was done ‘by the book’.
5. And who is at the top of the Food Chain regarding the recommendations? Often people with incredible conflicts of interest, such as animal rights types telling people that meat will kill them, and making that into official recommendations. Just one example.
Eventually, things will work themselves out. You CANNOT continue to have people like Dr. Noakes and Dr. Fung running clinics where the vast majority of Type 2 Diabetics are getting it reversed to the extent that they’re able to get off of drugs, while at the same time 95% of doctors and nutritionists are telling these same people that it’s a life sentence - and the drug levels will only increase.
That is an unstable situation which cannot last.
Add to that the stories of people HERE have, just on this thread. And FR is NOT a special-interest, nutrition-related, site. We are political junkies who spend 95% (at least) of our posts bitching about Democrats and RINOs. Go look at my postings from last week, for example. So I trust the people here more than my own sister, who is a nurse. People in the field often are unable to objectively look at data that directly contradicts what they’ve been taught and what they’ve told others - it is a tough thing to step back from, for anyone.