Who Can You Trust Today?

My aunt gave me a gift subscription to The American Diabetes Association's "Diabetes Forecast" magazine. After I read through the first few issues, they started hitting the round file. It seems very clear that despite their claims to exist for the cause of preventing and curing diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes. I don't believe them.

Then there is this recent article

on May 16, 2005

After Sweet Industry Gift, American Diabetes Assn. Claims Sugar Has Nothing to Do With Diabetes

After the American Diabetes Association received a large gift from major manufacturer of sugar-sweetened beverages, its top medical official is claiming that sugar has nothing to do with diabetes. In an interview published in today’s Corporate Crime Reporter, Richard Kahn, the chief scientific and medical officer with the American Diabetes Association said “What is the evidence that sugar itself has anything to do with diabetes? There is no evidence,”

On April 21, 2005 the ADA announced a “three-year, multi-million dollar alliance” with Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages, which produces sweetened soft drinks that are implicated in the epidemic of obesity and diabetes in the United States. Its parent company is Cadbury Schweppes, which is the third largest soft-drink manufacturer in the world, after Coca-Cola and PepsiCo.

“Saying that sugar has nothing to do with diabetes is like saying that tobacco has nothing to do with emphysema,” said Gary Ruskin, executive director of Commercial Alert. “The American Diabetes Association has been so corrupted that they have sunk to the mentality of ‘tobacco scientists’ who denied the link between tobacco and lung cancer.”

Incredibly, when Kahn was asked whether sugary drinks have anything to do with diabetes, he responded “No one has a clue of whether they do or don’t.”

There is ample evidence linking diets high in sugar, and sugary drinks, with obesity. For example, a study in the Lancet, titled "Relation Between Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Drinks and Childhood Obesity: a Prospective, Observational Analysis" found that the likelihood of obesity in children “increased 1.6 times for each additional can of sugar-sweetened drink that they consumed every day.”

Yet, Dr. Nicholas Perricone in his book: The Perricone Promise, totally refutes the statement above that "no one has a clue whether sugary drinks can cause diabetes" when he states: Sugar can be toxic. Ingesting sugar causes a rise in blood sugar, resulting in a burst of inflammatory chemicals that spread throughout our bodies. He states Pro-inflammatory foods are those that cause a rapid rise in blood sugar, resulting in the release of insulin into the bloodstream.

Gosh, I thought it was too much refined sugary foods that gave me diabetes, just like Dr. Perricone talks about. But now, the ADA says they are not sure about whether sugar is harmful?

When an organization is supported by the enemies of health; figure it out for yourself. Most of the magazines advertisers are drug manufacturers. Their goal is to continue to treat you until you die.

Then The Major Food Manufacturers

Have you ever wondered why you see high fructose corn syrup in some many foods today? It is a simple truth. Our government subsidizes the producers to keep the prices cheap and corn syrup is a cheap additive. Never mind that it causes havoc with consumer health. If it tastes sweet people will eat more and raise the profits of the food manufacturers.

No I don't believe that all the food manufacturers are bad. There are a some good ones out there. All I can say is learn to read the labels carefully. Look out for words like enriched, partially hydrogenated and many other terms we'll cover on another page.

Fortunately there are many doctors and researchers today who are working towards finding the causes and cures for diabetes.