American Diabetes Association

I have beiing reading about diabetes in America and their guidelines for diabetics and it seems that even after all these years Dr Bernsteins diet is stil not offically recognised by them and their guidelines are much the same for diet as NHS ones are here, low fat with plenty of veg and fruit and a certain amount of grains They say all fruit and vegetables are good but the following they say are the superfoods for diabetics how much of these do you eat if any. I actually eat all of those but low on the wholegrain stuff.

Beans including lima kidney pinto and black beans
Wholegrains and nuts
Dark green leafy vegetables
Tomatoes
Beriies and citrus fruits
Fat free milk and yogurt.
Dr Bernstein who was an engineer only became a doctor because the medical world would not publish his papers on the LCHF diet so once quailified as an MD he was able to publish them himself and open his diabetic clinic in New York and presumably has made a fortune .I was suprised to find he was T1 I had assumed he was T2 as there seems to be more T2's who follow the LCHF diet

Hi Annie , I eat all of the above , except citrus fruit , and my milk is soya ....

Dr Bernstein is an 80 year old T1 diabetic. I wish him continued good health.

paul-1976 said:

Absolutely! Dr Bernstein was a kingpin in the development of self testing BG levels and inspirational to many... I just see this topic as being started as a cheap dig from the OP to be honest!

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It was purely an observation Paul but you see it as you want to it makes no difference

Daibell said:

I think one of the problems with Dr Bernstein's diet is that it is referred to as LCHF and the HF bit would scare many HCPs who have been trained to think fats are bad. I've noticed a big increase in references to LCHF and Dr Bernstein in recent months on the forum and to some extent it's counter-productive in our battle to get the carbs down. The low-carb bit is to be applauded but the HF bit is unnecessary as you only need enough fats and proteins to provide the calories and other essential nutrients.

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Yes I agree with you there a lot of people could see the high fat bit as having to eat loads of saturated meat fats so it could put them off of even lowering their carbs, Perhaps it would be better just to call it the LC diet

AlexMBrennan said:

I reaaaaaaaaaally don't think that's how peer review works.

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This came from Dr Bernsteins biography

Brunneria said:

Isn't it amazing how people can read the same thing and come away with completely different understandings?

When I read Bernstein's book, the things I noticed were how he had pioneered a diet and lifestyle which allowed him to halt the development of severe complications - caused by following the medical advice he was given (based on the standard diabetic treatment of the time). In time, following his very low carb approach, his body has healed most, but not all, of those complications.

The term low carb high fat did not start with Bernstein. It has emerged very recently. I've no idea if Bernstein even uses the term, so linking it to him is a misrepresentation - unless you can clearly find the term used in his older works?

I agree that Bernstein's diet is very low carb - far lower than I would want to maintain for long. But my preferences to not affect whether that diet works, or not.

But I am amazed at your last paragraph @AnnieC .
The implication is that you would rather Bernstein had stayed ill, continued to suffer complications, failed in his career choice, been a financial failure, and not helped fellow diabetics improve their blood glucose control - because you think he should have blindly followed a diet plan after he had LCHF dietestablished it was causing his complications.

I hope I am wrong in my reading of your post, because it appears to be deliberately inflammatory.

Perhaps you could clarify?

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Bunneria you have certainly got it wrong. I was just interested in what the US diabetes guidelines were in comparison to our and merely quoted what was in Dr Bernsteins biography

paul-1976 said:

Why are you so interested though "AnnieC" ? You don't want to follow a LCHF diet and you're very vocal about that- so what's your angle??

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Brunneria said:

Isn't it amazing how people can read the same thing and come away with completely different understandings?

When I read Bernstein's book, the things I noticed were how he had pioneered a diet and lifestyle which allowed him to halt the development of severe complications - caused by following the medical advice he was given (based on the standard diabetic treatment of the time). In time, following his very low carb approach, his body has healed most, but not all, of those complications.

The term low carb high fat did not start with Bernstein. It has emerged very recently. I've no idea if Bernstein even uses the term, so linking it to him is a misrepresentation - unless you can clearly find the term used in his older works?

I agree that Bernstein's diet is very low carb - far lower than I would want to maintain for long. But my preferences to not affect whether that diet works, or not.

But I am amazed at your last paragraph @AnnieC .
The implication is that you would rather Bernstein had stayed ill, continued to suffer complications, failed in his career choice, been a financial failure, and not helped fellow diabetics improve their blood glucose control - because you think he should have blindly followed a diet plan after he had established it was causing his complications.

I hope I am wrong in my reading of your post, because it appears to be deliberately inflammatory.

Perhaps you could clarify?

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Yes Brunneria you have certainly got it wrong and you strayed totally from the thread because if you read my post properly you would see it was not about LCHF what I wrote was an observation of the US diabetes diet. The references to Dr Bernstein was from his biography which I was interested in reading as his view on diabetes as i am sure many have and the only reference I made about the diet was that the American diabetes association still did not recogonise it in their guidelines. I was interested in comparing theirs with the NHS guidelines in the course of me reading about diabetes. I myself do low carb as much as my weight will allow without loosing more but that is not what this thread is about

My actual question was perfectly straight forward did people eat the foods that the the US diabetes association say are super foods for diabetics not about how the diet came about that is a different subject altogether. As for you saying that the implication was that I would have rather Dr Berstein stayed ill is just totally silly. Good job others did not see it as you did but answered it

paul-1976 said:

Why are you so interested though "AnnieC" ? You don't want to follow a LCHF diet and you're very vocal about that- so what's your angle??

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as the question was... what they would eat or not from the US superfoods list.I will not dignify and more negative wi


When I read Bernstein's book, the things I noticed were how he had pioneered a diet and lifestyle which allowed him to halt the development of severe complications - caused by following the medical advice he was given (based on the standard diabetic treatment of the time). In time, following his very low carb approach, his body has healed most, but not all, of those complications.

The term low carb high fat did not start with Bernstein. It has emerged very recently. I've no idea if Bernstein even uses the term, so linking it to him is a misrepresentation - unless you can clearly find the term used in his older works?

I agree that Bernstein's diet is very low carb - far lower than I would want to maintain for long. But my preferences to not affect whether that diet works, or not.

But I am amazed at your last paragraph @AnnieC .
The implication is that you would rather Bernstein had stayed ill, continued to suffer complications, failed in his career choice, been a financial failure, and not helped fellow diabetics improve their blood glucose control - because you think he should have blindly followed a diet plan after he had established it was causing his complications.

I hope I am wrong in my reading of your post, because it appears to be deliberately inflammatory.

Perhaps you could clarify?[/QUOTE]

paul-1976 said:

Why are you so interested though "AnnieC" ? You don't want to follow a LCHF diet and you're very vocal about that- so what's your angle??

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I do lower carbs and have some HF but we all have to adapt it to suit ourselves as I am sure you do Paul