{"id":77263,"date":"2009-12-11T22:35:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T03:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/dieting-and-nutrition-diabetes\/46592-rants-professional-advice.html"},"modified":"2009-12-11T22:35:40","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T03:35:40","slug":"rants-professional-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/77263","title":{"rendered":"Rants: professional advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I have seen rants against dietary advice from dietitians and diabetes educators on DF since I joined. It&#8217;s kinda cool to see newish bloggers making similar observations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freetheanimal.com\/2009\/12\/two-adas-same-awful-advice.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+freetheanimal+%28Free+the+Animal%29&amp;utm_content=FaceBook\" >Two ADAs: Same Awful Advice | Free The Animal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This author subscribes to a similar theory as me about why &quot;they&quot; promote high carb diets. It&#8217;s a CYA mentality.<\/p>\n<p><i>Knowing diabetics would be eating some range of carbohydrate, dose needed to be set in a way to make sure BG didn&#8217;t get too high, then admonish patients to get their X number of servings of whole grains &amp; starches. Better the BG gets to high than too low, and if the patient eventually goes blind or has limbs amputated then, well, that&#8217;s just an aspect of the disease. But dying of hypoglycemia put blame square on the treating physician. <b>So, for liability reasons, we have high carb diets for diabetics.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read some of his and his current subject&#8217;s writings. Good stuff!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have seen rants against dietary advice from dietitians and diabetes educators on DF since I joined. It&#8217;s kinda cool to see newish bloggers making similar observations. Two ADAs: Same Awful Advice | Free The Animal This author subscribes to a similar theory as me about why &quot;they&quot; promote high carb diets. It&#8217;s a CYA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}