The new nutrition recommendations that the American Diabetes Association issued last week budged the premier American diabetes association into the 21th Century. It gave its limited -- and probably reluctant -- stamp of approval to low-carb diets. But the ADA moved little or no distance further in...
Glycemic Index Lags Behind Low-Carb Acceptance
1/ 4/08 12:48pm
I think this is in conformity with Bernstein's comments on Glycemic Index. The problem is that if you use insulin you still have to account for all the carbs and excess proteins you consume. For us T2s with residual or better natural insulin production it may be possible to add some low index carbs back into our diet once we really have figured out how to get our BGs where we want. I am getting close to that point, but there are just too many variables to cope with on that task than to add another.
1/ 5/08 6:50am
Was that a typo? .43 percent? .0043??? How is this even measureable?
1/ 5/08 10:56am
Dear Steve,
I puzzled to about the way that is expressed! In the original article (which I cited) it says literally:
Low-GI diets reduced HbA1c by 0.43% points (CI 0.72–0.13) over and above that produced by high-GI diets.
So I don't think it is a typo in my article or in the original. But I do think that the reduction is about half a percentage point, as us laypeople understand it.
Best regards,
David
1/ 7/08 6:01pm
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