It baffles me how hospitals and nursing homes continue to feed people the very same foods that put them there and in ill health. As I work for the ambulance company, I've run across what is known as a "Diabetic Diet." I was shocked to learn this diet is very high carb, low fat, and scarce in protein. Nothing more than a high sugar, nutrient deficient diet - the very foods that cause diabetes, disease, and cancer.

Typical meals on this "diabetic diet" include cereal, skim milk, toast, and jelly for breakfast. A sandwich with a cup of fruit, juice, roll and margarine for lunch. While dinner might be a meat with potatoes, a veggie, dinner roll, and dessert.

Here's another example of the malpractice misinformation:  

Fats to Avoid

Saturated and trans fats increase your risk of heart disease and stroke. Below is a list of spreads and cooking ingredients that contain a large amount of saturated fat. Remember, saturated fats are also found in full-fat dairy products and meats.

Cooking Oils and Other Fats

• Coconut oil
• Palm oil
• Lard
• Shortening

Spreads

• Butter
• Cream cheese
• Sour cream
• Margarine

Foods

• Bacon
• Chitterlings
• Coconut
• Cream
• Salt pork

WRONG!

First of all, you see those are whole foods, not genetically engineered food-like substances void of nutrients. On the contrary, those foods are similar to what Palaeolithic man thrived on for over 200,000 years and we are genetically adapted to.

Avoid saturated fat? Are you kidding? That is so very wrong! Saturated fat lowers your very low LDL,  raises your HDL, and lowers triglycerides. As cardiologist Dr. William Davis reports in, "Fat is not the demon.' It improves brain function and helps teach your body to burn it's own fat for fuel. More on that at Mark's Daily Apple, too.

If you want a real good laugh, check out this video - it's the blind leading the blind.



Furthermore, when you take fat out of your diet, it becomes a high carb sugar diet. Dr. Briffa recent had a similar encounter .

I asked each one of them (rhetorically), what type of foods diabetics have difficulty handling metabolically (carbohydrate). I then asked whether it made sense for them to base their diets on the very food type their bodies cannot handle. If high blood sugar is the hallmark of diabetes, why base the diet on foods that tend to raise blood sugar substantially? I also mentioned some studies that demonstrate that low-carb diets bring significant benefits for diabetics.

My impression was that again, without exception, these diabetics ‘got it’. Some of them asked how come something so wrong (diabetics should eat lots of carbohydrate) could become established as fact. Part of the reason, I explained, relates to the fact that if something gets repeated long enough and often enough, it becomes ‘fact’. At one point, for example, it was ‘fact’ that the world was flat. Now we know better. The problem is, I think, that even in the face of good evidence and common sense to the contrary, many health professionals continue to maintain that diabetics should eat a diet rich in the very foods that appear to do them most harm.

I am really getting tired of the growing number of misinformed people loading up their grocery carts with pop-tarts, Snack Wells, Special K, bread, rolls, wraps, pasta, rice, low fat frozen entree's, and skim milk... Sad part is these folks are fat, diabetic (or close to it), and they're not questioning why they don't lose weight on such a low-fat diet. They just keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

Does that make any sense?

I know YOU get it! That's why you are here. Keep reading, researching, and taking control of your own health. Because nobody is going to do it for you and you've only got one life. Live it to it's fullest.