tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post2321193025795650708..comments2023-10-23T11:24:13.532-04:00Comments on Diabetes Update: Does the High Fat Diet Cause Diabetes? No, But The Onslaught of Bad Research Is Making Me Burn Out.Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17384082448952856117noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-38842238388873476372011-09-13T07:37:03.596-04:002011-09-13T07:37:03.596-04:00Forinfo,
The web site has been updated whenever I...Forinfo,<br /><br />The web site has been updated whenever I find something that makes would benefit site visitors and I've been posting all the updates on a second blog which you can find here:<br /><br /><a href="http://phlauntdiabetesupdates.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Updates to Blood Sugar 101</a><br /><br />I would update the book version if there had been any breakthroughs that wouldJennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17384082448952856117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-38947949393716045682011-09-13T07:15:54.500-04:002011-09-13T07:15:54.500-04:00Jenny - you have done so much to help people with ...Jenny - you have done so much to help people with diabetes and it is impossible to criticise your decision to wind back how much time and effort you put into this. You are right that the information you have already made available is enough to help anyone who is sufficiently motivated to get a good understanding of diabetes issues. <br /><br />Is there any hope that you might be able still to forinfohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12290961626677251413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-31992476579165136142011-08-25T13:21:56.669-04:002011-08-25T13:21:56.669-04:00Shawn, What wonderful progress.
I do have to poin...Shawn, What wonderful progress.<br /><br />I do have to point out that I've been a diabetes wonk for a lot longer than I've been a romance novelist. That was a hobby that rather unexpectedly took off. The Diabetes was an exercise in saving my own life.Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17384082448952856117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-43132456634319031102011-08-25T12:50:14.911-04:002011-08-25T12:50:14.911-04:00Jenny: I only check your update site about once pe...Jenny: I only check your update site about once per month but it (and your other two diabetes/low carb sites)is very influential and has very literally changed and saved my life. My blood sugars are near normal, I convinced my doctor to switch me from Janumet to Metformin, my HbA1C fell two whole points in three months (from 8.1 to 6.1--I am hoping for a lower reading the next time I get it Wright Mindhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05829477663728047681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-39857854191471557162011-08-25T12:08:03.063-04:002011-08-25T12:08:03.063-04:00Denise Minger (of deconstructing The China Study f...Denise Minger (of deconstructing The China Study fame) has posted her analysis of this paper over at Mark Sisson's Mark's Daily Apple blog:<br /><br />www.marksdailyapple.com/does-a-high-fat-diet-cause-type-2-diabetes/Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17033443643442246531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-88433406830615534892011-08-24T08:32:54.980-04:002011-08-24T08:32:54.980-04:00Hi Jenny
Your blog is even reaching across the po...Hi Jenny<br /><br />Your blog is even reaching across the pond to Denmark, where I have been working as a nurse for 29 years. I have certainly been re-educated on diabetes, and nutrition in general, via your writing.<br />So thank you - and keep up the good work - if you can.Lone Stewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09123693183693173331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-20683953834595563342011-08-22T15:59:51.203-04:002011-08-22T15:59:51.203-04:00Shawn,
Thanks for a very inspiring post!Shawn,<br /><br />Thanks for a very inspiring post!Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17384082448952856117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-50053228676997817372011-08-22T14:24:18.860-04:002011-08-22T14:24:18.860-04:00Jenny,
A little background - I had gone back to s...Jenny,<br /><br />A little background - I had gone back to school after having been a software engineer for about a decade and, a year after starting back to school, discovered I was diabetic. My first A1C was 12.1% at 38 years old. I have learned a great deal here and my last A1C (less than 2 years later) was 6.1%. Still a ways to go, but the improvements due in great part to what I learned hereShawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15622356720520847693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-65840218687759454712011-08-21T02:37:57.877-04:002011-08-21T02:37:57.877-04:00Dear Jenny,
So much I'd like to say but will ...Dear Jenny,<br /><br />So much I'd like to say but will keep it brief. October 2010 I stopped eating all sugar, starch, grains. Blood draw 1 month later showed a1c of 7.0. Eight months after that, a1c was 5.2 - NO MEDS. <br /><br />Your research, reporting, and advice taught me what I needed to do. THANK YOU. Patriciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04955437033229505118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-79742625628063216982011-08-20T13:23:17.594-04:002011-08-20T13:23:17.594-04:00Priscilla, Thanks for your very kind words. So man...Priscilla, Thanks for your very kind words. So many of the responses here have been very heartening. It is a tough to strike a balance between doing things that apparently do help people and getting burnt out on how many people out there seem to be working assiduously, and with huge financial resources at harming them, often for profit. <br /><br />Sometimes I just have to step back, because too Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17384082448952856117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-37343901806384433552011-08-20T11:14:02.682-04:002011-08-20T11:14:02.682-04:00Dear Jenny,
Because I TRUST YOU and your research ...Dear Jenny,<br />Because I TRUST YOU and your research and your remarkable ability to read, glean, and summarize medical and scientific research and studies, I do not read most of the articles. I have tried a couple of them, but, they are too confusing for me. This is what distinguishes you for me. It is your willingness to provide and include your sources, usually peer reviewed, which Villa Priscillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16475028194662715995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-23580233098923547002011-08-19T17:08:09.490-04:002011-08-19T17:08:09.490-04:00Hi!
Check ingredients for this high fat diet, I s...Hi! <br />Check ingredients for this high fat diet, I say no wonder...<br /><br />"Mice were provided either a standard diet (16.4% protein, 73.1% carbohydrates and 10.5% fat with 4.07 kcal g−1; D12329, Research Diets) or a high-fat diet (16.4% protein, 25.5% carbohydrates and 58.0% fat with 5.56 kcal g−1", "D12331, Research Diets". <br /><br /> D12331:<br />Casein, 80 Mesh<brPiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04483674803949470712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-34133667732951645562011-08-17T21:11:50.876-04:002011-08-17T21:11:50.876-04:00I know cells in culture are different from in vivo...I know cells in culture are different from in vivo. But someone asked if it was all rodent research, and no one else had responded to that.Gretchenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17019921800841883073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-70916383598415415212011-08-17T18:36:14.697-04:002011-08-17T18:36:14.697-04:00Cells in culture is a huge step away from cells in...Cells in culture is a huge step away from cells in a human body where nutrients are delivered to the cells by physiological means, not poured on them. <br /><br />Dr. Feinman already addressed the issue of how eating fat changes the concentration of palmitic fat in the blood stream.Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17384082448952856117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-50401872523058696842011-08-17T18:08:13.487-04:002011-08-17T18:08:13.487-04:00The Nature study on "high fat diet" used...The Nature study on "high fat diet" used mice but also human cells in culture. <br /><br />I've blogged about it at Health Central (http://www.healthcentral.com/diabetes/c/all/?ic=4027) but they haven't posted it yet.Gretchenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17019921800841883073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-9501281068133128962011-08-17T16:21:01.883-04:002011-08-17T16:21:01.883-04:00Kevin, This is the dangerous 600 calorie a day st...Kevin, This is the dangerous 600 calorie a day starvation diet that I already blogged about <a href="http://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/2011/06/idiotically-dangerous-diet-reverses.html" rel="nofollow">HERE</a>. <br /><br />You can get the identical results by cutting carbs without starving yourself.Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17384082448952856117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-83877119911168344152011-08-17T15:25:57.771-04:002011-08-17T15:25:57.771-04:00http://www.diabetologia-journal.org/Lim.pdf
What ...http://www.diabetologia-journal.org/Lim.pdf<br /><br />What do you think about this article?Kevin Lahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02977687793231268406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-43546986499501196062011-08-17T13:38:50.086-04:002011-08-17T13:38:50.086-04:00For those who still pay attention to media coverag...For those who still pay attention to media coverage of research studies, I highly recommend a great (often hilarious) video now posted on YouTube of a lecture given by Tom Naughton on the Low Carb cruise last year. It's titled Science for Smart People and it really explains in laymen's terms everything media consumers need to know about those headlines about science and studies. <br />Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17033443643442246531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-6452843329429203152011-08-17T10:21:34.027-04:002011-08-17T10:21:34.027-04:00Perhaps you underestimate the good
you perpetrate ...Perhaps you underestimate the good<br />you perpetrate :)<br /><br />I've made a practice of noting the<br />references you often provide, and<br />taking them along to Endo appt's at<br />the VA - To provide to the earnest<br />young (& not so young) docs who tell<br />me my A1C (5.x %) is too low, and<br />blandish the drug-of-the-month as a<br />"safe" alternative to Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14822781041177815764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-18238142762710065402011-08-17T06:54:05.408-04:002011-08-17T06:54:05.408-04:00This was a very good post although I would second ...This was a very good post although I would second people who tell you not to lose heart. There are many who are trying to do what you say, my own group, Nutrition & Metabolism, for one, http://www.nmsociety.org. We do have trouble getting everybody together as a cohesive force, however and are open to suggestions on mechanisms, (meet-ups, volunteers ?). <br /><br />I have not read the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-86572009550796773402011-08-17T01:29:56.929-04:002011-08-17T01:29:56.929-04:00Wow Jenny!
I can feel the frustration in your wor...Wow Jenny!<br /><br />I can feel the frustration in your words. I have had my Endocrinologist ask me where I got the crazy ideas about wanting to stay below 140 with my sugars. When I tried to tell him, he cut me off and said he perhaps was not the right Doctor for me. He said if I was under 7 a1c then I was well controlled. I am currently looking for someone else for treatment. <br /><br />Ventura Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13657808043769361072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-87086786904444490602011-08-16T20:52:56.505-04:002011-08-16T20:52:56.505-04:00Heckelmeister makes a good point. I view you as a...Heckelmeister makes a good point. I view you as an expert in this field. Do you know how many times I have said in one of my forums posts, "Jenny Ruhl says ..."? I mention you constantly, so your message is getting around. It may not be getting to the researchers, though -- and it never WILL because you are not a doctor or a researcher yourself. That's just the way it goes. Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08146809971985714203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-28410050513718255332011-08-16T19:49:41.516-04:002011-08-16T19:49:41.516-04:00Jenny I thank you for all your work you do. I than...Jenny I thank you for all your work you do. I thank you for the emails you have answered. I thank you for putting the articles into a language I can understand. I fight with my Dr and tell her things I learn here. If anyone can tell me how to go farther I sure will! KarenKarenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17274085359249172041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-66052140848692892092011-08-16T19:39:22.816-04:002011-08-16T19:39:22.816-04:00I am glad to hear that you are not giving up your ...I am glad to hear that you are not giving up your blogging. I appreciate all the hard work and time you have put into this site and the Blood Sugar 101 pages. Whenever I meet a person with diabetes, these sites are the first place I send them. Your information has been invaluable to me and so many others. I can understand getting burned out on all the bad studies that get the sensational Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16655747133135789559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-83988538965427965452011-08-16T19:18:16.196-04:002011-08-16T19:18:16.196-04:00Hecklemeister,
I'm NOT going to stop. I'm...Hecklemeister,<br /><br />I'm NOT going to stop. I'm just not going to put my energy into trying to counteract the never-ending barrage of depressingly similar, poorly designed or misleading studies that keep coming up.Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17384082448952856117noreply@blogger.com