Consider here the wisdom of Dr. Bernstein.
Dr. Bernstein asserted that the ADA’s recommendation of a diet rich in legumes, low-fat milk, whole grains, fruits and vegetables “creates sugar while fat does not.” He recalled being interviewed with an ADA dietician and asking her how she could recommend whole grain foods when they created high levels of blood glucose. To illustrate, he chewed a slice of whole-grain bread and applied the resulting saliva to a urine glucose test strip. The strip turned black immediately, indicating the instant conversion of the bread to glucose by saliva.
Here’s the youtube video that shows the glucose test strip immediately turning pink actually to blue clearly showing that bread essentially became sugar on the tongue of Dr. Bernstein. This demonstration begins at about the 1:50 minute mark.
Isn’t it amazing? Incredibly, the advocate of treating diabetes with a lowfat/highcarb diet consisting of HealthyWholeGrains (yippee!), acts as if she has blinders on her eyes. She see the truth RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER EYES but yet is so invested in the lowfat/healthywholegrains (Oh my God, they killed Kenny. You bastards! Uh, I meah, HealthyWholeGrains, Yippee!) that her pride or fear of loss of profession causes her to carry on with the lowfat/highcarb lie.
So again, Dr. Bernstein believes that a diet rich in legumes, low-fat milk, whole grains, fruits and vegetables “creates sugar while fat does not.” In other words, this is something that someone who is living with diabetes would want to avoid, right?
So, what does Dr. Dean Ornish say?
“If you want to lose weight, lower blood sugar, or prevent chronic diseases, you’ll need to choose more healthy foods and fewer less healthy ones. Foods are ranked from the healthiest (group 1), to the least healthy (group 5). Here are some examples. Group 1: Fruits, fresh vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nonfat dairy, egg whites, soy products.
Pretty freakin’ incredible, isn’t it? One Dr., a champion lowcarbin’ genius, who has lived with diabetes his whole life, recommends avoiding a diet rich in legumes, low-fat milk, whole grains, fruits and vegetables in order to treat diabetes. And then you have a lowfat/highcarbin’ Dr. telling you that you may lower your blood sugar with these same foods that will turn a glucose test strip from pink to blue.
I eat fresh vegetables and fruit, but I don’t have diabetes, and my diet is a bit rich in lowcarb/nonstarchy veggies and a bit random with fruit. Moreover, in any case, a diet rich in fresh vegetables and fruits is a whole lot different than a diet rich also with whole grains, legumes, nonfat dairy and soy products. If you know someone living with diabetes or who has the desire to avoid becoming Type II, I would recommend watching the youtube clip in this post.
Not to throw stones here but I wonder how many things in my life force me to cling to wearing blinders when someone is showing me a strip turning from pink to blue but I refuse to acknowledge it? 
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I believe bread is sugar to the body and Dr. Bernstein is on target! Thank you Dr. B! God bless you for speaking out!
I was on this blog yesterday that championed traditional diets a la Weston Price, and there was a bunch of Atkins-hatin’ going on in the comments. One commenter cited statements by the American Dietetic Association as proof that Atkins was unhealthy. I went to the website, dug around a bit for the recommendations for diabetics and it was the same crap you’re quoting here–whole grains, beans, fruits, veggies, and low-fat milk. Sugar city.
I was like… If you’re going to do this, if you’re going to badmouth a guy who has probably saved thousands and thousands of lives, even if his nutritional knowledge wasn’t 100 percent (and whose is?)… then at least come up with a better opponent than a bunch of morons.
Feed sugar to a diabetic? Indeed. Wonder who sponsors the ADA… Big Pharma?
@Dana
Yes, you’re right, no one is 100% right, all of our heroes have feet of clay and we’re all fallible. I grow tired with some of the arguments about what is paleo, who is paleo enough, who is low carb, who is low carb enough, etc.
The first ADA-diet meal I ate after diagnosis sent my blood glucose
to 450 after 2 hours and I had to be hospitalized. With Dr. Bernstein’s
diet alone, in one week, before I started insulin, my fasting glucose
went from 273 to 150. My post-prandials were down from the 200s to the 170s.
After 9 months following Dr. Bernstein’s dietary reccommendations and
his low-carb diet plan, I have blood sugars in a healthy range for a
non-diabetic. My blood lipid profiles are better than they’ve ever been
LDL cholesterol down significantly and HDLs are up. I also lost 30 lbs.
Dr. Bernstein’s approach saved my life and I don’t understand why a
dietitian who drank her sugary Kool-aid can stand up to an actual
scientist like Dr. Bernstein (who was an engineer before med school) who
has thousands of patients, himself included, who thrive on his plan and
suffered complications on the ADA-approved diet.
In addition, Dr. Bernstein spent five minutes on the phone with me to
answer questions and I’m not even a patient. His approach to diabetes
management, complete with his low-carb diet have saved my life. I will
be low-carb for life.
@txnfootlady
Dr. Bernstein is great. I’d love to have lunch with the guy and hear his views on anything, the conversation wouldn’t have to be about nutrition. Dr. B.’s diet and writings are great for a better understanding of diabetes, but he has a lot to offer to everyone.
@Andrea
Thank you for sharing such a wonderful story about Dr. Bernstein. Indeed, a wonderful man. I recommend to people to forget the labels of Paleo, Primal, etc., and expand your thinking about nutrition to certainly include Dr. B’s writings. If you’re up for it, I’d love to have you guest post on our site about your experience.
One of the biggest contributors to the ADA is—surprise, surprise–
Eli Lilly, manufacturers of insulin. Seems to me the higher our blood
sugar, the more product they sell. They might have a vested interest
in keeping us unhealthy with high blood sugar
http://www2.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/micro_stories.pl?ACCT=916306&TICK=LLY&STORY=/www/story/10-30-2008/0004915024&EDATE=Oct+30,+2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46_GInjBeQU
http://www2.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/micro_site.pl?Tick=lly
Zachary,
I’d love to!
Andrea
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In the film clip, the other woman recommends a “balanced diet” and says
we need a “realistic diet” that people can eat. Why is the recommendation of Berstein unrealistic?
Why do “experts” think that people HAVE to eat so much bread? With my wheat sensitivities I often just have a sandwich without the bread. Yes, filling only. Whatever it was- tuna salad with Tabasco sauce; roast with horseradish mayo, burger, Burrito FILLING- guacamole, veggies, chicken. I ask for it in a bowl with a fork. Delicious, and totally realistic.