Thursday, September 20, 2007
A few days ago I was talking with my favorite Certified Diabetes Educators, Karen LaVine, about a wide variety of topics. I had mentioned that both my health and my finances are both as good as they ever were. You know, she replied, that for most people our health is connected to our economi...
<<< Like most poor people I was limited to the cheapest source of calories, the starches like wheat, potatoes, rice, and corn that we grow in abundance in this country. It's no wonder that I grew fat. >>>
What do you mean it's no wonder you grew fat? Those foods you mention are the BASE of the food pyramid, the very foods that are supposed to be healthiest for us.
The food pyramid sucks.
Thanks for your blog.
Thanks for the comment back. I was diagnosed Type 2 two years ago, when I was 28 years old. For several years I followed the food pyramid diet, and I could never lose weight.
Now I've adopted a semi-low carb diet. I say "semi" because I'm trying really hard to follow the Bernstein diet, but it's hard sometimes, and occasionally I slip. But still, even not following it perfectly, I am slowly but surely losing weight.
The thing that worries me, is a good friend of mine, who is very overweight and very unhappy with life, can't seem to lose weight following a fairly low fat/high carb diet. She's frustrated because what is "supposed" to work, doesn't work. So she feels the need to cut more fat, and add more carbs. Just what she DOESN'T need.
Thanks again, keep up the good blog.