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?