Re: Only in the heads of the authors

I don't know if you're aware of it or not, but more and more physicians and medical institutions are going high protein in the treatment of Type II.  Dr. Bernstein - a Type I from age 12 and now 76 years old (ancient for a Type I), was a pioneer in that direction.  He is the one who originated home blood sugar monitoring at a time when you had to be a doctor to buy one (his wife was) and the device cost over $600, weighed three pounds and took a full minute to display the results.  He tested 5 times a day and eventually narrowed it down to the fact that carbohydrates were the one and only thing that raised his blood sugar - but nobody in the medical community would listen to him.  So, at age 45 he started medical school and on graduation started his own diabetes practice.  His method is a maximum of 4 carbohydrates per meal for a total of 12 per day with no limitation on fat!  His story is here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_K._Bernstein

His own web page is here:

http://www.diabetes-book.com/index.shtml

An internationally recognized clinic in Seattle, Washington, Virginia Mason, has been researching diabetes since 1923.  They put all of their Type II diabetics (many thousands) onto a similar diet with a restriction of 15 carbohydrates per meal - 45 a day maximum.  No limit on type of meat or fat, just carbos.   Here's their web page:

http://www.benaroyaresearch.org/

Many people erroneously believe that a low carbohydrate diet causes health problems - the Inuit and the Masai prove that isn't true.  The Inuit eat mostly red meat, some fish, loads of fat, and some vegetables.  The Masai eat blood, milk and meat.  I will admit that there are aboriginals who eat many more vegetables who don't get Type II, but they don't eat processed food either.

I do agree that processed foods - particularly carbohydrates, cause health problems.  We were designed before the advent of agriculture and the explosion of grains - and they are a major contributor to health problems.  There have been several autopsies of Egyptian mummies and they have been found to have atherosclerosis in about the same percentage as people on the Western diet.  They consumed whole grains - which are pushed by medical practitioners as "beneficial."  Many people are allergic to grains and don't even know it.  I gave a copy of Mercola's "No Grain Diet" book to my vegetarian granddaughter, and in the first week of going on it she lost 10 pounds and she wasn't even overweight.  Everything she lost was around her middle. 

The American Diabetic Association diet will kill you.