“avoiding carbs is a good thing for most people no matter in what form they come.”
You are right, of course. I don’t believe a damn thing coming from the “experts”. They have been wrong so many time, on so many topics related to health, that I don’t know how ANYONE can believe them.
Avoiding (or at least minimizing) carbs, and now avoiding gluten has NOTHING TO DO with Big Medicine - they haven’t changed their tune a bit and I doubt they ever will - the push to get this stuff our of our diet is by a small group of people with really nothing to gain other than, maybe, book royalties. The ones pushing the status quo are looking at huge research grants and also liability protection (i.e., if you tell diabetics to eat carbs, as the government does, then you can’t be sued when they get sicker...since you are following government guidelines - but do the opposite, and you might go broke).
But the funny thing is that Americans are getting SICKER and FATTER by the year, and, especially, diabetes is going through the roof - and why? Because people listen to Big Medicine (which, of course, is in bed with big government).
I remember when Dr. Atkins was alive. The medical profession and associations excoriated him. The week after he died, the stories trickled out proclaiming he may have been right all along.
My wife’s cousin is a past president of the medical society of DC, an AMA chapter. You should hear his rants about how the AMA sold out to Obamacare despite various chapters objecting.
I don’t trust the medical profession. Find a Dr. you trust and hang on. And read as much as you can from a variety of sources.
Sometimes I get good referrals from this site.
Yup.
We have a diabetes epidemic now, but like you said...some people can even go off insulin, just by avoiding certain foods and drinks.
I was talking to a doctor one time. I mentioned the epidemic and said, “It’s because there’s starch and sugar in everything”.
She said, “Sugar doesn’t cause diabetes” and I asked, “Oh, then what causes it?”
She said, “Being overweight.”
I said, “Well?”
End of conversation.