RMS NEWS FLASH! Well meaning Dr Jorge Rodriguez on national TV just now pushing his new book on diabetes & prediabetes says (and doesnt say) the following: The great thing about the Atkins diet… (oh boy) Prediabetes is a fasting blood sugar between zero and 125 (huh?....zero? Its actually 100-125 and not the best screening test) You need to get your A1C blood level checked...(good!)...and if its greater than 6.5 youre in trouble......um, Excuse me doc, but the accepted range for prediabetes according to the American Diabetes Association is 5.7–6.4 (and, in fact, the American Association of clinical endocrinologist would say 5.5–6.4) so the trouble starts well before 6.5, which is actually full-blown diabetes. Now for something Dr. Jorge did NOT (unfortunately) say – he did not differentiate between type 2 diabetes, related to lifestyle and insulin resistance and type 1 diabetes which is an autoimmune phenomena not related to lifestyle. Fortunately, he DID note the risks of salt and refined fats (good job doc!) – in other words hes apparently not just a low-carb evangelist (notwithstanding his praise for the Atkins diet) - and he DID mention the importance of getting carbohydrates from sources that also have high fiber content (good!). Fortunately, he didnt specifically & simply mention that this means low starch vegetables, whole fruits, starchy vegetables, legumes, and minimally processed whole grains. And, despite all the time that he had (quite a bit IMO), he did not differentiate between natural intact fiber and the new corporate food phenomena of processed fibers being added to all kinds of, commonly, junk food (compounds that go by names like: maltodextrin, polydextrose, inulin – sometimes described as chicory root extract - oat fiber, corn fiber and wheat fiber… the latter 3 should not be confused with healthy oat BRAN, corn BRAN and wheat BRAN). I guess its hard for many TV docs to really find where REALITY MEETS SCIENCE But Ill be here to keep helping them redirect! RMS #RealityMeetsScience TM
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:01:55 +0000
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