If you are a type 2 diabetic, and are frustrated by the fact that the recommended diet by the ADA is not helping your blood sugar levels at all, this article is a must read for you.

I  highly recommend this diet, which completely controlled my gestational diabetes. It may be strict and difficult to do - but it truly works, as opposed to the diet which is pushed mainstream.     And the longer you do it, the easier it becomes. I know because I followed it during my pregnancy with Ian. There are lots of alternatives to bread and sugar that are very good actually and help satisfy those cravings!    I wish I had continued the diet after Ian, but once I got pregnant with Annah I started craving sweets again and stopped being so good with it.  Then of course, I started having blood sugar problems again.  Kind of obvious!    It's easy to pretend the problem doesn't exist though, if you aren't testing your blood sugar levels and seeing the numbers for yourself.  That is what I did.  I kept hoping that maybe I didn't have the problem this time, even though deep down I knew I probably did.  Out of sight, out of mind.

Even to implement just some of the things in the diet above helps a lot, if you don't feel that you can do it all. I think that people deserve to be informed, not kept in the dark, about their options for healing from diabetes.  It is such a widespread disease nowadays that can be prevented, and most people don't even realize it can be helped without medication.
      
I think that the fact that the ADA knows that the low carb diet is helping diabetics, but refuses to recommend it because it might be "too difficult" is ridiculous and shows that they do not truly care about the welfare of diabetics out there who truly are searching for answers.   Should we be kept in the dark about the answer to a problem just because it is "hard to do"?

Also, I think a lot of the reason this high carb, low fat diet is still perpetuated so much is because of the fact that drug companies couldn't be making billions of dollars off insulin if people started taking control of their own health and getting better.

Let me add a disclaimer that obviously I am not a medical professional - I'm just a mom who tried a different approach and it worked wonders for me.  You can take my advice or leave it...I just want to share what I have learned.   I felt like ranting a little today....now I'm done!