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Doctors, the ADA, and Diabetes

August 16, 2005 08:58 AM

My wife and I have had an issue with the American Diabetes Association for many years. We know the diet recommendations are wrong, and there are hints of politics in them (I have lost the link to that story).

Whenever my wife goes into the hospital, an event we dread, she is put on the ADA diet for diabetics. Then we begin the fight to get her off it and onto an ala carte menu so she can choose her food. Or she just picks a few things that are served and goes hungry. A bit dangerous when you are a Type 1 diabetic and must administer insulin exogenously.

The hospital seems to feel it must follow the ADA protocol. It may risk litigation if it doesn't I suppose. The feeling seems to be among her doctors is that they can control her blood glucose by simply administering more insulin. But, I warn them, doing that risks making her fat and a Type 2 diabetic in addition to her present Type 1 diabetes. It is as though I am speaking in some strange language; the point just doesn't compute for them. The diseases are entirely different they respond. They are but it is true nonetheless, as even a simple understanding of the physiology would show.

How can that be? Well, eating simple, glucose-laden meals and driving up her blood sugar requires extra insulin, over and above what my wife requires to live and process a healthy diet. The extra insulin injures and turns down her insulin receptors, leading to insulin resistance. From there Type 2, or insulin resistant diabetes is but a short step away. She can develop insulin-resistance just like anyone else.

Well now, this sort of "shoot them up with insulin to cover their high glucose" has led to exactly this sort of hybridized diabetes. Some Type 1 diabetics are also becoming Type 2 diabetics through this insulin-resistant inducing process. It has been named Type 3 diabetes. Now there is a great solution to the problem, give it a name.

Dr. Rosedale, a name readers here are by now familiar with, has a post on Dr. Mercola's site on Type 3 Diabetes.

The importance to healthy readers, and body builders in particular, is that insulin increasing diets and eating patterns, so often recommended because insulin is said to be anabolic, can progress to insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes. There are large segments of the body building and aerobic communities who are insulin resistant and well on their way to Type 2 diabetes. There is an undocumented, but very real, and large segment of both communities who have developed Type 2 diabetes. See the Scull of Doom post and the post on Redgrave.

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