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 its tenuous support for the glycemic index that it initially gave in the previous nutrition recommendations. It issued the previous recommendations in September 2006. The ADA concluded then that for...
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