ADA Issues New Clinical Practice Recommendations

The clueless American Diabetes Association has issued more garbage.

"'The risks of overweight and obesity are well known. We recognize that people are looking for realistic ways to lose weight,' said Ann Albright, PhD, RD, President, Health Care & Education, American Diabetes Association."

"Realistic ways"?

Not.

Then explain the popularity of deadly diets pushed by the talk show hosts, diet gurus, diet docs, etc., and why ADA has not come out against them.

Maybe it is the money.

The Recommendations are a way to get more money for the diabetes industry by continuing the medicalization of weight loss. This is from the Introduction. It is the very first sentence:

"Medical nutrition therapy (MNT) is important in preventing diabetes, managing existing diabetes, and preventing, or at least slowing, the rate of development of diabetes complications. It is, therefore, important at all levels of diabetes prevention."

Medicalizing weight loss will never work.

If you never cure the problem, then you can continue to request income under the guise of claiming to help.

Then the Recommendations move on to this stuff which clearly places weight loss beyond the reach of individuals and into the hands of the sick care industry:

"Because of the effects of obesity on insulin resistance, weight loss is an important therapeutic objective for individuals with pre-diabetes or diabetes. However, long-term weight loss is difficult for most people to accomplish. This is probably because the central nervous system plays an important role in regulating energy intake and expenditure...

Evidence demonstrates that structured, intensive lifestyle programs involving participant education, individualized counseling, reduced dietary energy and fat (30% of total energy) intake, regular physical activity, and frequent participant contact are necessary to produce long-term weight loss of 5–7% of starting weight."

And there is the obligatory missing of the forest through the trees:

"Standard weight loss diets provide 500–1,000 fewer calories than estimated to be necessary for weight maintenance and initially result in a loss of 1–2 lb/week. Although many people can lose some weight (as much as 10% of initial weight in 6 months) with such diets, without continued support and follow-up, people usually regain the weight they have lost."

Duh.

"Continued support" that transfers money from us to them.

"Very-low-calorie diets provide 800 calories daily and produce substantial weight loss and rapid improvements in glycemia and lipemia in individuals with type 2 diabetes. When very-low-calorie diets are stopped and self-selected meals are reintroduced, weight regain is common. Thus, very-low-calorie diets appear to have limited utility in the treatment of type 2 diabetes and should only be considered in conjunction with a structured weight loss program."

Starvation dieting is the norm that is recommended by the experts.

And then the Recommendations go on to extol the virtues of diet drugs and bariatric surgery, which are malpractice.

Perhaps your New Year's resolutions should include a cessation of all contributions to organizations like ADA, until they empower the people and not the sick care industry and themselves and come to the realization that pursuing the same path as before will fail as before.

Your money is being wasted.

Stop the nonsense.