The American Diabetes Association had a life-threatening food pyramid on their website. This is no myth. There you could find your path to lofty glucose – in beautiful Carbohydrate-laden technicolor – right on their website:
In August, I wrote to the American Diabetes Association, succinctly explaining my medical perspective:
From: <me>
Sent: 8/1/2010 02:03:55 AM
To: <AskADA@diabetes.org>
Subject: food pyramid
You forgot to mention smoking illicit substances. This should be right
at the base of the food pyramid, as whoever put the listed foods as
the ‘foundation’ for a diabetic diet was surely imbibing.
It seems that not only don’t these items belong in the ‘foundation’
position, they should pretty much be eliminated altogether from a
diabetic diet. Diabetics who follow the food pyramid listed on the ADA
website are putting themselves at a tremendous health risk.
Who created the diabetic food pyramid, and why hasn’t the ADA changed
it?
Please get back to me on this, as the health of millions of people
worldwide is at stake.
Sincerely, Yours Truly
I got the following response back:
Date: August 9, 2010 9:09:46 AM EDT
Dear Sir,
Thank you for contacting the American Diabetes Association. We have received your e-mail regarding the food pyramid.
We apologize for the delay in response to you e-mail. We’re in the process of getting rid of the pyramid. There were concerns about analytics etc.
Sincerely,
Jane Nyondo
Center for Information and Community Support
American Diabetes Association
1-800-342-2383
I like to think I can do some good in the world. Perhaps somewhere, someone has benefitted from my actions. Although their website is still laced with horrible food misinformation, today they have eliminated the food pyramid:
http://www.diabetes.org/food-and-fitness/food/planning-meals/diabetes-food-pyramid.html
While I offer no proof, perhaps I have saved a life. The Health Care System, Insurance Agencies, Our Government… all needs a major overhaul. Our American system should seek things that are good, regardless of who profits. Oil exists only because their money funds campaigns. How do you change a system which is literally fueled (paid for) by the toxins living in the bloodstream of voters?
Sure, we can vote. But funding determines outcomes, not issues. If voters spent more time investigating the funding for the politicians, their perspective would change dramatically. Fortunately, there is funding in place to make sure voters are oriented towards the issues out of the mouths of politicians, rather than their diametrically opposed funding.
When Pepsi helps to sponsor the ‘run for Diabetes’, is the Diabetes Association going to give an honest evaluation of Pepsi in a Diabetic diet?
When Philip Morris sits on the board at the American Cancer Association…
When Big Oil funds Al Gore… (It wasn’t on purpose, it was Occidental).
People believe what they are fed, while ignoring the ingredients.
Is it truth or myth? Take a little myth, mix in a dose of personal experience and, voila! You become a myth-mongering man on a mission to dispel the mythtics, or you eschew knowledge of disinformation from a personal perspective.
The National Pharmaceutical Association makes money off prescriptions. Doctors make money off patients needing prescriptions.
Only experience can change a myth to a reality. Your health is – and has always been – in your hands.
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