The American Diabetes Association’s nutrition recommendations just came out, and I am disappointed.
This ADA position statement for 2006 updates the 2004 recommendations. The organization’s nutrition recommendations are the most influential – and controversial – recommendations that the ADA makes.
My disappointment with the new nutrition recommendations is not because I don’t like them or the people who wrote them. The co-chairs of the writing panel are John P. Bantle, professor of...
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