Interesting, but seems a bit biased.

Because we won't exercise and keep our weight down, we must deprive
ouselves of a very important macronutrient, and all the cheap,
nutritious, and delicious foods that contain it.?

They simplistically dismiss metformin as only reducing blood glucose.
Well, the mechanisms that it uses to achieve this is surely important.
First up it reduces the high rate of gluconeogenesis in type 2
diabetics which is the pathway that converts your rump steak to
glucose. And it also improves the utilisation of insulin allowing more
glucose into the energy-starved cells.

Now if a fat couch potato presents with raised blood glucose, do you
fix the dangerous and progressing disease causing high blood glucose
with a drug that immediately corrects the high glucose and halts the
progression of the disease, or do you advocate diet and lifestyle
change that may occur instantly, that may occur in a few weeks,
months, or that may never occur? Afterall, if someone presents with
haemorrhage, one does not prescribe a diet rich in clotting factors,
one staunches the flow and THEN changes other things to the best of
one's abilities.

Of course, if you have developed a glucose handling problem, you
should reduce your glucose load and avoid foods that have an adverse
effect on your glucose levels. The simplistic claim that all breads
are bad is not born out by testing many different breads, some of
which are quite benign with respect to spiking glucose levels. And
then there is your rump steak that can spike your glucose
signifiantly.

It ain't as simple as this article seems to want to make out.
And then there is the conept of type 2 DM being a fat metabolism
problem, and the glucose handling bit is only a side show.
The ADA insisting on long term studies seems the middle road to my way
of thinking.

All this propaganda about the ADA being bought by the grain industry
looks a bit silly when you think of the other food industry lobbies
that seem to be ignored. There is the soy bean mob, the beef
producers, and other meat producers and the oil producers.
If they all put their oars in, I would suspect that they would even
out any perceived imbalances in influence.

jack

I guess this thread is about removing carbohydrates from your diet to
avoid diabetes? Basically I AGREE strongly with that, except of course
for some healthy foods that have slow-to-digest carbohydrates, like
beans and brown rice. Beans will actually help keep your blood sugar
down, which is very good. Also almost any fruits and vegetables are
good for you, except for a few things like white potatoes. I'm sure
what they're talking about is removing any carbohydrates that are fast
digesting, like soda pop and other junk food. I'm definitely against
refined sugar and bleached flour. I've cut those things almost
completely out of my diet and I feel much better. I feel like crap if I
eat a lot of unhealthy food.

I also don't believe that exercise makes up for eating a crappy diet.
So I don't think heavy exercisers should eat refined sugar, corn syrup,
white potatoes, french fries, and bleached flour either. Besides
causing diabetes, junk food has many other ill effects on your body. I
can think of one celebrity who is skinny, not very old, runs every day,
and got a heart attack. I forgot his name.

Most of America's food industry is behaving in an evil, immoral way
where they do anything to make money. They are causing the majority of
our diseases. They have destroyed the quality of our food. You know how
farmers treat cattle in a very brutal, exploitative way? They give them
the wrong foods and keep them alive with antibiotics and hormones? Well
the food industry is SCREWING US OVER JUST AS BADLY!!! We, their fellow
human beings, are being treated like cattle. They are destroying our
health to make a buck. But I've opted out. I now eat pretty much only
whole, unprocessed foods. I don't want to eat food that has been ruined
by the food processors. I realize what's going on now and I will no
longer be a part of it.