Wheat Belly

The ADA exerts heavy influence in crafting national attitudes toward nutrition. When someone is diagnosed with diabetes, they are sent to a diabetes educator or nurse who counsels them in the ADA diet principles. If a patient enters the hospital and has diabetes, the doctor orders an “ADA diet.” Such dietary “guidelines” can, in effect, be enacted into health “law.” I’ve seen smart diabetes nurses and educators who, coming to understand that carbohydrates cause diabetes, buck ADA advice and counsel patients to curtail carbohydrate consumption. Because such advice flies in the face of ADA guidelines, the medical establishment demonstrates its incredulity by firing these rogue employees. Never underestimate the convictions of the conventional, particularly in medicine.

The list of ADA-recommended foods includes:

• whole grain breads, such as whole wheat or rye

• whole grain, high-fiber cereal

• cooked cereal such as oatmeal, grits, hominy, or cream of wheat

• rice, pasta, tortillas

• cooked beans and peas, such as pinto beans or black-eyed peas

• potatoes, green peas, corn, lima beans, sweet potatoes, winter squash

• low-fat crackers and snack chips, pretzels, and fat-free popcorn

In short, eat wheat, wheat, corn, rice, and wheat.

manifested on the body’s surface

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