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ADA and Low carb diets

CherryAA said:
http://www.smartbrief.com/branded/6...6C1366C2/340C674F-7786-4923-B582-C2925786DBBB

The American diabetes Association published this today- an academic study of the information coming out of Truegrit facebook group of T1 people who follow Dr Bernstein in very low carbing.

It does seem that the tide is turning in recognising the value of low carb!
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I saw other post saying the study was published by online paediatric journal

The link shows ADA logo on top but it doesn't say ADA reported this story......
 
michita said:
I saw other post saying the study was published by online paediatric journal

The link shows ADA logo on top but it doesn't say ADA reported this story......
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Smart Brief is the news arm of the ADA I believe.. at least there are links through to that page from the ADA page.
The study was originally published in the journal Pediatrics.
 
Sorry I wasn't being very clear - I meant that ADA published a reference to the published article !
 
"and there was an almost 0.1% increase in A1C for each additional 10 grams of carbohydrates consumed." - wow, never seen such a specific reference like this before.
 
eggs11 said:
"and there was an almost 0.1% increase in A1C for each additional 10 grams of carbohydrates consumed." - wow, never seen such a specific reference like this before.
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I saw that and thought - " yep - that's about what happens to me - from my monitor"
 
@eggs11
generally speaking I am under 30g, however, I do experiment quite a lot - and have done so on holiday recently in Japan where I ate varying portions of rice with my evening meal - my blood sugars for the next few hours correlated pretty closely with the amount of rice I had added in more or less by the table spoon.

I didn't do the actual maths but as an accountant I can see that those daily changes probably would correlate pretty closely to increasing the average amount by 10g per day over then entire length of the hba1C calculation. The good news on that is of course that it also means that one proper portion of rice now and again is going to be pretty irrelevant to the total. I have found that personally the trick is to make sure that if you do eat too many carbs at a sitting, then the answer is to leave it as long as humanly possible to get your blood sugars back down into the 4's before eating again. That can require a lot of willpower if the carbs themselves were enough to kick you out of ketosis. For me personally that didn't seem to happen - so still no hunger pangs despite the occasional rice dish, and thus no need to eat the following morning.
 
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