At 11:40 AM -0800 12/6/06, Carrie Coineandubh wrote:
>>Date:    Wed, 6 Dec 2006 04:47:09 -0800
>>From:    DS <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: paleo diet for diabetics
>>
>>  i am not diabetic but i am curious how the paleo diet needs to be 
>>tailored to diabetics?
>>  can you keep red meat? fruits?
>
>*** A Paleo diet is perfect for diabetics. The modern sugary fruits 
>one finds in grocery stores aren't ideal, but still better than some 
>of the recommendations given by my diabetic husband's nutritionist. 
>I almost chewed my tongue off during that consultation.
>
>--Carrie

carrie,

i would be curious to hear just what this nutritionist said.

i used to do computer work for a state health department diabetes 
program. i was dumbfounded by the "nutritional" advice they gave out. 
i don't have diabetes, but because i was eating a mostly raw, fairly 
low-carb diet (just for the increased energy etc), i was eating a 
small fraction of the diabetogenic, high-glycemic-index foods that 
these poor folks were being told to eat! i was horrified. eg they 
actually distributed a pamphlet written for people with diabetes 
called "Sugar is not the enemy".

i concluded that they were, consciously or unconsciously, actually 
pushing the expensive diabetes DRUGS.

tina