Re: Digest Number 187...Susie

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Rick is a great guy. He is a writer and lives in California. He interviewed me

(over the phone) for an article he was writing on diabetes for the Dallas

Morning News. My endo said it was the best article (as far as information and

presentation) that she had ever seen published in the paper! Toni The Article

was at his web site.

OtterCritter wrote:

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> Liz Heide writes:

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> << ... I also follow a low carb diet....and have lost a lot of weight.

> Go to this page and see my transformation...

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> http://www.geocities.com:80/CapeCanaveral/6875/HTML3/LowCarb/index.html >>

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> My gosh, girl! You really are something! What a great job!

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> << The information I provided was for everyone's information only...Although

> I do strongly believe there is something to the Glycemic values of foods,

> which is why I am reading this book. Plus, I don't neccesarily believe the

> ADA either...but that is just my view. >>

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> Yes, that would be the same ADA that used to tell us to worry so much about

> fats that we all ended up making our diabetes worse on our high-carb diets?

> ) I think there is something to it too. Rick Mendosa himself has done

> extensive testing with many foods, and is sold on a product called chana

> dal. And I think that is a major pitfall with restaurant eating ... we tend

> to eat bigger portions, plus if they overcook the food, it can play havoc

> with its Glycemic Index.

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> My concern in writing to Rick was that, in studying his Glycemic Index, a

> newbie could get the impression that " these are the foods a diabetic is

> supposed to eat ... just pick the ones with the lower numbers. " And the

> foods that have no carbohydrates are not even mentioned. And he feels that

> the web page makes that clear, but it wasn't apparent to me.

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> Susie

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