Maybe they should just shut up and not publish any damn guidelines.

[wombat_socho]

Egg on Their Faces by Steven Malanga, City Journal Summer 2010:According to Scientific American, growing research into carbohydrate-based diets has demonstrated that the medical establishment may have harmed Americans by steering them toward carbs. Research by Meir Stampfer, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard, concludes that diets

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[haikujaguar]

Yeah, our "low-fat" diet craze (leading to high-carb diets) has been really really bad. :P

Me, I need a lot of protein. Like RAR ME PRIMITIVE ANIMAL lot. If I eat that with a lot of vegetables, I feel like a human being. If I eat the majority of what's sold in restaurants and grocery stores, I feel like a crumbling building.

[wombat_socho]

Ditto. I also notice that the higher my BG gets (even when it's in the 110-120 "normal" range) my brain feels sluggish. :(

[haikujaguar]

I notice different things with the different bad foods: rancid oil makes me feel kind of queasy/weird, flour/wheat/etc makes me feel bloated and sluggish, and sugar makes me seriously mood-swingy/energy highs and lows-ish.

I really can't tolerate much of any of those things. And yet they're addictive. It drives me crazy that eating well is so hard, but we're surrounded by cheap pasta, frozen rolls, breaded food... argh!

And then people get upset at me when I say 'maybe the reason you're unhappy/having energy problems/having depression' is partly nutritional. :P

[wombat_socho]

And then people get upset at me when I say 'maybe the reason you're unhappy/having energy problems/having depression' is partly nutritional. :P

I'm fortunate to be surrounded by friends and family who know that food can have drastic effects on their mood and energy states. My brother and son both were ADD when they were young, and had to stick to the Feingold diet (no artificial colors/flavors, no tomatoes/citrus fruit) to keep their heads screwed on straight. As for us diabetics, getting a clear head from lower BG is a happy side-effect of the reduced carbs in the diet.

All you can do is put the information out for people; if they don't eat it. well, you've done what you can.

[haikujaguar]

It makes me very sad to hear people with ADD-diagnosed kids responding by... putting them on more drugs. When it's probable that drugs and food allergies are responsible for their state in the first place. :/

There's a lot of science to be done to make up for the pseudoscience that's wrecked several generations of people's health.

[wombat_socho]

I think a lot of kids are ADD due to food allergies, but a lot of boys who get diagnosed don't need anything more than a long recess with a lot of running around & other exercise. Can't sell any pills that way, though. >:(