This wouldn't be Iron Tom in a new guise, would it?

Same 'ol.

Annette

methanol (formaldehyde) from dark wines and liquors, smoke, aspartame
aggravates glucose level problems in many people: Bove: Murray 2005.10.02

Many diabetics report that aspartame severely aggravates their blood glucose
fluctuations -- this may be from the inevitable, swift conversion of much of
the 11% methanol (wood alcohol) component of aspartame in humans into
formaldehyde, and then formic acid, both severe, cumulative toxins.

Adequate levels of folic acid, plentiful in fruits and vegetables, help
counter this toxicity in most people.  But a variety of drugs, including
most common pain medicines like aspirin and Tylenol, interfere with folic
acid.

Other sources of methanol include degradation of pectins in fruits and
vegetables by bacteria in the colon, and dark wines and liquors (about twice
the amount as in diet sodas) -- agreed by experts to be the main cause of
the dreadful misery of "next morning" hangovers.

Other formaldehyde sources are wood and tobacco smoke, natural gas heaters,
vehicle exhaust, new furniture, drapes, and carpets, new mobile homes, new
buildings, many personal care items, cleaning products, mortuaries and
medical schools and labs, some dental root canal medicines.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1219
low fat vegan diet helps obese women with weight, metabolism, glucose
tolerance and insulin sensitivity, Neal D Barnard, MD et al, American J
Medicine 2005 Sept., Physicians for Social Responsibility,
FoodNavigator-USA.com: Murray 2005.09.26

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1225
Aspartame -- the shocking story, Pat Thomas, The Ecologist, 2005 Sept.,
p. 35-51, full text: Murray 2005.09.30

Here's what I eat:

Avoid all products with aspartame and MSG.
Substitute stevia (at health food stores).

Gradually reduce alcohol, caffeine (coffee, cocoa, and teas), meat, fish,
eggs, milk, butter, and cheese,  hydrogenated oils, trans fats, white bread,
food additives and colors, sugar, high fructose corn syrup, fluoride, city
water, salt and sodium (< 1,000 mg daily).

Enjoy organic rice, potatoes, vegetables, fruits, beans, garlic, tumeric,
with modest use of soy products, nuts, flax seeds, almond butter, sprouted
grain breads, flax seed and olive oils, chili sauce, vitamins and minerals,
4-8 1,000 mg fish oil capsules, 4 400 mcg folic acid tablets (antidote to
methanol and formaldehyde), and fill your jugs with deionized or distilled
water.

Rich Murray, MA  Room For All  rmforall@comcast.net  505-501-2298
1943 Otowi Road    Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505   USA
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And what of the opposite end of the food scale, an almost all-fat
diet? A good example are the Eskimos. While it's true that their
incidence of DM T2 is increasing, it's still below the US average in
spite of a higher percentage of overweight people. It's also true that
in recent years their traditional diet has changed drastically due to
the introduction of many high-carb foods. Prior to that, Diabetes was
almost unknown amongst them.

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On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 18:22:20 -0400, Ronetta@webtv.net (Loretta
Eisenberg) wrote:

G'day G'day Loretta,

Here is my take on Dr. McDougall from reading his website.  
http://www.drmcdougall.com/

Others may have other interpretations.

Dr. McDougall is an advocate of an ultra low fat, ultra low protein
diet. Whereas some attack the ADA diet for being too high in
carbohydrate, Dr McDougall attacks such diets as being too high in fat
and too high in protein. The ADA diet allows up to 30% fat by
calories. This is barely less than the current US average of 33%. He
quite correctly calls it a moderate fat diet.  His dietary advice
includes 7 to 10% fat by calorie intake.  This puts it in the same
category as Pritikin and others.

With regard to protein he surprisingly finds the 13 to 15% protein
typical in the US and the ADA diet as too high. He suggests it leads
to kidney failure in old age.  As you may guess others disagree
pointing out that some amino acids eg arginine found in larger
proportions in vegetable proteins repair kidney damage.

How does one achieve a diet with roughly 80% carbs, 10% protein, and
10% fat?   His answer is vegetables and fruit.   This is different
from grain based pyramids. The problem with grains is they tend to end
up overly processed.

Here we see him distancing his dietary recommendations from processed
carbs.   http://www.drmcdougall.com/news/high_carb_cancer_myth.html

Here we seem him distancing himself from vegetable fats.
http://www.drmcdougall.com/vegetable_fat.html

Basically he acknowledges omega-6 fats as much more dangerous than
omega-3 fats yet never the less suggests all fats contribute to breast
cancer.  Put simply, it isn't as simple as that.

His attacks on high protein diets follow fairly standard lines; early
weight loss is water loss ... people can't stick to high protein
diets, high protein diets lead to dietary imbalances including calcium
loss from bones, high protein foods are dangerous because they are
associated with high saturated fat and cholesterol intakes.  When you
personally know people who have followed sensible, relatively high
protein, low carb, moderate fat diets for three or four years after
losing forty kg and whose doctors only comment is that their total
cholesterol is too low, one has to doubt that all his fears turn out
to be realities.

Hope this helps,
Best wishes,

Richard Colin is flat out full of sh.t on his type 2 advice.  He got a
couple of things right, loosing weight is very helpful to reducing BGs
by helping to reduce insulin resistance.  But he doesn't understand
how that process actually works.  And yes, type 1s (childhood
diabetics is an incorrect term) will always need insulin.  The rest of
his crap is just that, crap.

He starts his bad advice with a flat out lie.