Giving a lecture on old-timey quack medicines tomorrow

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178. I imagine I wasn't

very clear in my prior post. The Food pyramid was heavily influenced by food industry lobbyists who were able to completely change what we were told to eat from the original in 1991 to the one that was actually released in 1992.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/diet/themes/pyramid.html

As to type 2 diabetes, I was diagnosed with it for at least 5 years, with many labs confirming that. I knew from daily testing at home that when I followed the guidelines of the ADA and other organizations about the "proper diet", my blood sugars only got higher and higher. When I instead ate the foods that do not raise blood sugar, ignoring the advice given to me by those organizations and my doctor, my diabetes and all other labs improved and are now within the normal range and I am healthy.

Processed foods, grains, starches and sugar do immeasurable damage to our bodies. Unfortunately far too many doctors are not looking at the results of the advice they give out and are no longer looking for the cause of disease, but simply handing out more and more pills that generally only mask the symptoms and call for more pills to try to alleviate the side effects. The only reason we're told to eat these foods are because the large corporations who profit from them have far too much influence. Even the training that our doctors receive in school are skewed by pharmaceutical company influence.